this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
670 points (98.3% liked)

Today I Learned

17808 readers
1320 users here now

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**



Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.



Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Tho I must admit that I would never get that close to the surface with my bare hands while doing this.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FlyingSquid 73 points 1 month ago (44 children)

Ok, so why would anyone want to catch a piranha? Are they tasty or something?

[–] justlookingfordragon 64 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wikipedia claims they're quite popular.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reading more, everything I see describes them as bony, salty and very fishy tasting, best served smoked or grilled to mask the flavor.

Sounds like we’re not missing much.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Protein is protein and if this is where someone needs to get it, then this is what it will be

[–] FlyingSquid -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except they're using protein to catch the protein.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Think I would rather eat 20lbs of piranhas than 5lbs of rotting leg bone

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like why I dislike most fish to begin with.

[–] peopleproblems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's that fishy taste that does it to me

Just cant pretend to like it at all

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's interesting, I really like the fishy taste. If it's overpowering it can be unpleasant, but in reasonably amounts it's tasty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whitefish (why do you call Felchen like that?!) or Salmon fishy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Because felching is something...else.. over here.

[–] Xenny 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds right up my alley I love fishy tasting fish. Every time I go to sushi I always get the mackerel

load more comments (42 replies)