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[mel b 2,792]

1 hour ago, ditchman said:

my proctologist..........is going going to give me hell on tuesday...when he goes in for a gander

Ask him to take a video .

You'll be half way to an eel pie .

[ditchman 2,843]

3 minutes ago, mel b said:

Ask him to take a video .

You'll be half way to an eel pie .

believe me that is one pie you wouldnt want to eat...........far to rich....and quite piqaunt..

[mel b 2,792]

4 minutes ago, ditchman said:

believe me that is one pie you wouldnt want to eat...........far to rich....and quite piqaunt..

It'll taste like a well hung pheasant .

[shaaark 10,931]

I had polish neighbours about 25 years ago, and they ate, on their bbqs practically every day, summer and winter,  the fish they caught from my local stretch of the taff, trout, perch, eels, roach etc etc, anything they caught.

[comanche 3,077]

8 hours ago, fireman said:

The ponds you see in big farm house gardens and larger houses are called stew ponds and they were living larders from a time when we were god fearing christians that ate fish on a friday, carp and perch were favorites on old english tables and the larger house and farms had them as the owners were rich enough to have them dug in the first place. Just a bit of factual history for some of you that might not have known,,,

Fireman   ,there were actually three "Fish Days " a week  during much of the Mediaeval Period. And that didn't  include special religious holidays . 

Most of the fish eaten was salted or smoked sea fish. 

 Herring were pretty much a currency in their own right . 

Oysters were poor man's  food and there were so many salmon in many rivers that they too were considered peasant fare.

You are right though about the stews . They were for the rich .    Providing pike and  bream for a feast or gifting breeding stock to friends  was the mark of a rich man or thriving  religious order  .

Although  monks always get the credit for pioneering fish farming ,in truth they generally  employed managers to deal with their farms and ponds or rented them out.

Most of the big  estate lakes were more ornamental.  Every Gentleman of any worth  had to have one to compliment his deer park.  Though a man was more likely to feed his prize carp than eat them .  Though he might give a few away as a mark of his generosity .

Me ?  I rate perch and gudgeon  very highly     . I've only eaten a couple of grayling but they were good  too  . Took me a while to find a way of cooking eels that l like,  then they  got rare and protected Pike's Ok but boney. 

Then as someone noted earlier in the thread , the Europeans  are far more adaptable when it comes to recipes. 

[comanche 3,077]

8 minutes ago, shaaark said:

I had polish neighbours about 25 years ago, and they ate, on their bbqs practically every day, summer and winter,  the fish they caught from my local stretch of the taff, trout, perch, eels, roach etc etc, anything they caught.

I spent some time chatting to a Romanian angler who was fishing near me a few years ago.

He showed me photographs of him and his relatives  standing with maybe 20 carp that they had caught for a big family BBQ.

       Apparently they fish sections of dammed rivers . These places are maintained  rather like our put and take trout fisheries     . You pay a fee to fish and are allowed to keep your catch.

On the subject of eating a uk carp a polite version of  his answer would be " No way. They are fed on shxxx and swim in their shxxx and would taste like shxxx "

[EDDIE B 3,166]

FRIDAY came from the pagan godess FREYA. The sacred symbol for Freya was a fish, so people ate fish on a Friday to honour her. Modern religions stole this tradition, like many others, to push out paganism, and convert the masses.

[EDDIE B 3,166]

1 minute ago, comanche said:

I spent some time chatting to a Romanian angler who was fishing near me a few years ago.

He showed me photographs of him and his relatives  standing with maybe 20 carp that they had caught for a big family BBQ.

       Apparently they fish sections of dammed rivers . These places are maintained  rather like our put and take trout fisheries     . You pay a fee to fish and are allowed to keep your catch.

On the subject of eating a uk carp a polite version of  his answer would be " No way. They are fed on shxxx and swim in their shxxx and would taste like shxxx "

Wasn't it Hugh Fernley Whittingstall that had the carp in the bath?

[comanche 3,077]

Just now, EDDIE B said:

Wasn't it Hugh Fernley Whittingstall that had the carp in the bath?

It was , if l recall  he had caught in a pond then floated it in a bath with river water flowing through it to cleanse it .  Illegal but no one noticed .

Then the river flooded and it escaped

[comanche 3,077]

9 minutes ago, EDDIE B said:

FRIDAY came from the pagan godess FREYA. The sacred symbol for Freya was a fish, so people ate fish on a Friday to honour her. Modern religions stole this tradition, like many others, to push out paganism, and convert the masses.

Interesting

A minor contributing reason could also be that fishermen  were more likely to be coming into port with their catch than leaving port.

They considered it bad luck to sail on a Friday.

[ditchman 2,843]

1 hour ago, comanche said:

Fireman   ,there were actually three "Fish Days " a week  during much of the Mediaeval Period. And that didn't  include special religious holidays . 

Most of the fish eaten was salted or smoked sea fish. 

 Herring were pretty much a currency in their own right . 

Oysters were poor man's  food and there were so many salmon in many rivers that they too were considered peasant fare.

You are right though about the stews . They were for the rich .    Providing pike and  bream for a feast or gifting breeding stock to friends  was the mark of a rich man or thriving  religious order  .

Although  monks always get the credit for pioneering fish farming ,in truth they generally  employed managers to deal with their farms and ponds or rented them out.

Most of the big  estate lakes were more ornamental.  Every Gentleman of any worth  had to have one to compliment his deer park.  Though a man was more likely to feed his prize carp than eat them .  Though he might give a few away as a mark of his generosity .

Me ?  I rate perch and gudgeon  very highly     . I've only eaten a couple of grayling but they were good  too  . Took me a while to find a way of cooking eels that l like,  then they  got rare and protected Pike's Ok but boney. 

Then as someone noted earlier in the thread , the Europeans  are far more adaptable when it comes to recipes. 

smoked eel on buttered toast ....is bloody good eating....the dutch have that for breakfast

[Lenmcharristar 9,923]

1 hour ago, shaaark said:

I had polish neighbours about 25 years ago, and they ate, on their bbqs practically every day, summer and winter,  the fish they caught from my local stretch of the taff, trout, perch, eels, roach etc etc, anything they caught.

Thats the fecking problem, everything is for the pot

[mackem 27,779]

Just been into a Chinese supermarket and saw carp.

[Councilestatekid 1,974]

In Hungary and places like that they stock the lakes with carp for locals to fish and eat think they can take any under a weight limit so the bigger ones are left for sport anglers and breeding some big ones in some lakes 60+

[Chaff 3,622]

59 minutes ago, Councilestatekid said:

In Hungary and places like that they stock the lakes with carp for locals to fish and eat think they can take any under a weight limit so the bigger ones are left for sport anglers and breeding some big ones in some lakes 60+

Sounds fair