XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.food.baking   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 29 Sep 2023 22:01:55 GMT, Cindy Hamilton   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2023-09-29, Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >> Cindy Hamilton  writes:   
   >>>On 2023-09-29, rbowman  wrote:   
   >>>> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:02:35 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I think the moral of that story is:  don't eat tilapia.  It's nasty   
   >>>>> stuff.  Spend a little more on fish that doesn't eat poop (when no other   
   >>>>> source of nutrition is available).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Are you familiar with the dining habits of catfish, crabs, and lobsters? I   
   >>>> will admit tilapia and the vague 'rockfish' aren't too tasty without a lot   
   >>>> of yellow curry paste and coconut milk.   
   >>>   
   >>>I don't eat catfish, either.  All freshwater fish tastes muddy to me.   
   >>   
   >> Have you tried walleye?  Or good trout?   
   >   
   >Yep.  I can taste the geosmin in all freshwaterfish.   
      
   Never heard of it and never noticed it,   Geosmin is a natural bicyclic   
   terpene with an earthy odor. According to The Merck Index, it is the   
   “major volatile component of beet essence, also . . . the potent earthy   
   odor contaminant of fish, beans, [and] water.” The human nose can detect   
   it at concentrations in air as low as 5 ppt.   parts per trillion!   
      
   >>>   
   >>>> 'A little more' is not quite accurate. Halibut, haddock, cod, swordfish,   
   >>>> wild salmon and so forth are up in the nosebleed region.   
   >>>   
   >>>It depends on your standards.  I paid either $30 or $40/pound for a   
   >>>swordfish steak for my husband last week.   
   >>   
   >> Wild salmon was $12/lb at Costco last week.   
   >   
   >Neither of us likes wild salmon.   
      
   >> Farmed atlantic salmon was $11/lb (it used to be about $8 pre-pandemic).   
   >   
   >Costco doesn't have enough things I want to buy to make it worth paying   
   >for the memberhship.   
      
   Me too.   I didn't have to look because no store does.   
      
      Although 20 years after they opened I heard that you can buy a   
   membership, cancel in the middle of the year, and get your membership   
   fee back.   Was this a leniency because they're short of customers, or   
   did they always do this?   Or is the membership not really for revenue   
   but to make people feel special?   
      
   If you can do this, I thought of going through the store once to see   
   what they've got.   
      
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