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[–] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Salmon is delicious and I totally get why bears get so hyped when they return to rivers to spawn.

Fuck yeah, I’m up to my furry little ears in salmon snacks y’all!” - Bears

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bears know nothing, they haven't even tasted it in the ultimate form, graved. Smoked is good too but those silly sods haven't done that either. Pfft.

[–] Tarquinn2049 16 points 9 months ago

What's worse, there is a decent chance at least one bear has, but there was no way for him to convince any other bear. All the right circumstances had to line up perfectly for that random campsite he ate at to have that specific meal be interrupted. And bear language doesn't have the nuance to convey just how much better it was than raw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax

If you ever get the chance to test graved salmon then I highly recommend it

What am I saying, "if you ever get the chance", it's so piss easy to make that I should've have just said "you should make it"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the info, but I burn cereal. What type of restaurant would make this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's honestly really really easy. Probably the easiest way to prepare salmon. In the evening you take raw salmon fillet, you put plenty of sea salt on it, a tiny bit of sugar and hefty amount of dill. Put in the fridge. In the morning, it's done. Slice it into nice slices and eat as is or put on rye bread with some onion. I never bother with the sauce, seems superfluous and just hides the salty salmon taste.

I don't know what sort of restaurant would have it. Outside of some specialty Swedish kitchen or Nordic or Norwegian one, could be in some sea food one as an appetizer I guess? But almost always the ready made ones or even ones at restaurant go light on the salt and rely on the sauce. It's much better imo when you make it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Okay, I may actually try this. Thanks again!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (4 children)

yfw that color actually comes from crustaceans they eat: 🤯

[–] Resol 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Might as well call it crustacean pink instead. That name sounds much better than a word with a silent L.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't have to be silent

[–] Resol 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I pronounce it. Everyone keeps telling me it's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Resol 1 points 9 months ago
[–] captainlezbian 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah but then we sound like we’re talking about a fatwa victim

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.

Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.

[–] LuckyBoy 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mercury is more highly concentrated in higher-level organisms in a similar fashion, yes.

But mercury itself has nothing to do with coloring.

[–] Omgarm 7 points 9 months ago

This is also the source of a flamingo's colour. The debate if salmon are fishy flamingos or flamingos are feathery salmon has yet to be settled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I thought Salmon were actually gray on the inside? Is this a farm raised versus wild thing?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gray?? 🤢 Even the farm raised should be a light pink before it’s cooked.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Whitish gray, like a lot of fish and bird meat. The pink comes from their natural diet, which they don't have in captivity, so farms dye the meat artificially so it looks like wild-caught salmon

If the color of the meat turns you off, wait until you think about the fact that it's a dead body

[–] Langoddsen 6 points 9 months ago

Just to add to this, the artificial colour is added to the fish's diet. They also adjust the colour depending on the market. For example, apparently Japan prefers a bright pink colour, while Italy and France prefer a less bright pink colour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I haven’t ate fish or any meat since the Bush administration, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What did George Bush do that turned you off eating fish?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

He incorrectly believed that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.

But peace was never an option. 🔪🐟

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Farm-raised salmon are usually pink. Wild caught salmon are usually bright red.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] GladiusB 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm here for the lochs and cream cheese

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Lox, gotta have the capers too

[–] Venat0r 8 points 9 months ago

Worked pretty well for dracula on Sesame Street I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Isn't this just a rip from a webcomic?

[–] samus12345 7 points 9 months ago

Fish are food, not friends!

[–] rob_t_firefly 6 points 9 months ago
[–] Emerald 1 points 9 months ago

Image Transcription: Mastodon Post


Sean Kelly, @[email protected]

ME: We have a color named after you

SALMON: Really? Is it silvery-blue like my scales?

ME: No, uh …

SALMON: Wait why is it pink?

ME: …

SALMON: WHY IS IT PINK?!?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So, don't people generally know that Salmon is pink in color? Well, pinkish-orange anyway. My question is - what happens if you're a girl and.....you don't LIKE THE COLOR PINK!! (Sorry I'll give you a moment to recover from having your mind blown). I'm male and I hate the color pink but not because it's the color of every toy ever made for girls - it's just a color that makes me think of Pepto Bismal. I don't see the attraction.