XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.food.baking   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/29/2023 3:18 PM, micky wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   Probably connected to their original 100% return policy.   
      
   >   
   > If you can do this, I thought of going through the store once to see   
   > what they've got.   
      
   Call them and ask. Or go with a friend or neighbor.   
      
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