Chime In: Favorite Fish for Parish Fish-Fries

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Parma is the pierogi capital of Northeast Ohio…some of the best fish fries you’ll find anywhere…
 
Yes, I’m well aware of Parma. My mother never went there either. I think I finally visited it for the first time around age 37.
If anyone else ever plans a visit there I would suggest an early morning at Rudy’s Strudel on Paczki Day, it must be seen to be believed.
 
Yes, our parish is on a baked cod and boiled shrimp-vibe this Lent. (Previous years it’s been fried catfish.)
 
@humbleseeker: So good, I don’t eat it during Lent as a form of penance.

Yes! Finally I am not alone on this planet!

Skipping a little meat for a plate of the Best Fish in the World™ is closer to an upgrade than a penance, isn’t it?
 
Lake Superior White Fish is grrrreat! I’d like Alaskan Salmon but its a bit pricey!
If the fish isn’t from a USA fishery I won’t buy it. Our fisherman need our support. Some parishes take turns with the fish-frys - try to outdo one another. Makes for good fund raising!
 
Grotto, I’m with you, I want to support fisherman in my own country. I stopped purchasing most frozen fish in supermarkets because it is mostly communist. Also, although a package might tell you US product but processed or packaged in another country, how does the US producer know that the packaged goods they received is the same product? Given that results of consumer product DNA research a few years ago shows that often fish marketed under a given name is unrelated, how can you really know the truth/quality of what you purchase?
 
KS, glad you agree. I check the origin and the processing and if I cannot find it or make it out - looking at the bar code, the zero begins the US and Canada. In the “old” days we used to hear the refrain = “Look for the Union Label”. 😆
 
TheLittleLady said:
Honestly, what sort of documentation exists wrt the political affiliation of fisheries?
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Maybe she means frozen fish tastes like something they’d eat in the gulag, which it mostly does. Having lived near water pretty much all of my life, there’s really no excuse for eating frozen fish unless you’re buying a TV dinner or maybe having nostalgic childhood memories with a box of awful fish sticks.
 
TheLittleLady said:
Honestly, what sort of documentation exists wrt the political affiliation of fisheries?
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The leading foreign suppliers of seafood products to the U.S. in 2014 were China, Canada, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Chile. About two thirds of the edible seafood imported into the U.S. came from these six countries. source
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China is ruled by their communist party.
Thailand, i’m pretty sure, is ruled by a military dictatorship
Vietnam is ruled by their communist party

That’s half of the top 6. I don’t know if this is what KS_Housewife was referring too but it does seem a large portion of seafood in the US does come from communist countries.
 
Or when you are hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean/sea/gulf (I’m not a fan of freshwater fish except for Pike and that is still a whole country away from me!)
 
I’d probably just open a can of tuna, sardines or anchovies. I don’t think I could live land-locked for long, I’d need to be at least by a river.
 
Cod and Salmon do pretty well in IQF filets. Not the breaded junk, just the filet.
 
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