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Why do people like Cod so much??

  • 25-03-2011 01:50PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭


    I love fish.

    Love sole, turbot, monkfish, john dory, swordfish, tuna steaks the lot. There are so many different flavours and types, most of them all delish!

    Why the fup do Irish people love cod so much?? Its bland, tasteless muck. Granted I like a battered cod and chips after a few pints... but a battered lump of styrofoam and chips would have the same effect!

    So what is people obsession with a nice lump of cod?....






    *in before the "you've got to be codding me"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Smells like fish, tastes like chicken!:pac::pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I always wonder why myself. It's a really boring game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    yekahS wrote: »
    Granted I like a battered cod and chips after a few pints... but a battered lump of styrofoam and chips would have the same effect!

    Think about why you like it first maybe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭boredatwork82


    ah now, are ya codding me?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭iPlop


    I don't eat fish myself but isn't it some other fish they use in the chipper these days because cod is very expensive?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Do chippers sell sole, turbot, monkfish, john dory, swordfish, tuna steaks the lot?

    I didn't realise people buy cod other than in the chipper.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    It's plentiful and makes four nice fillets with few bones and those are large and easily dealt with.

    Otherwise, taste wise, it's very low on the taste stakes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    yekahS wrote: »
    Its bland, tasteless muck.
    Ah, it's not that bad. Granted there are a multitude of better quality fish but it's still a decent eat.

    I would imagine price and availability have a lot to do with it's popularity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    I'm not a fish person, but a bit of rainbow trout is nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭enda1


    Its not just the Irish. The Portugese for example love the aul salted cod.

    Its like the chicken of the fish world. Rather light in flavour, but goes with everything and very easy to cook (forgiving).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭Tahuti


    It's not even cod these days in the chippers, for the most part.

    More likely a nice piece of South african hake, posing as a cod.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    o1s1n wrote: »
    I always wonder why myself. It's a really boring game.

    I honestly thought that's what this was about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    yekahS wrote: »
    I love fish.

    Love sole, turbot, monkfish, john dory, swordfish, tuna steaks the lot. There are so many different flavours and types, most of them all delish!

    Why the fup do Irish people love cod so much?? Its bland, tasteless muck. Granted I like a battered cod and chips after a few pints... but a battered lump of styrofoam and chips would have the same effect!

    So what is people obsession with a nice lump of cod?....


    :confused: i think that you may have answered your own question there :rolleyes:

    anyway, different people have different preferences (though i don't see how anyone can eat Tuna) but unless they're forcing it down your throat, leave them be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Because hoki fish fingers are muck :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭HoneyRyder


    I have a friend who won't eat tuna because she thinks it's dolphin meat. I told her tuna is a fish and asked her where she got that idea from. Her response was 'How come it says dolphin friendly on the tin then?' which she's apparently taken to mean that the dolphins were killed humanely :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Zod.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Rock salmon ftw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Haruki


    I like it, particularly smoked. But there are five or six types of fish id put ahead of it taste-wise. For the price of it, trout is criminally underrated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I reckon that most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between cod and pollock or hoki etc. Many chippers sell those as 'Cod' anyway

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/esoa-dbr042210.php


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    most people in this country arent eating cod when they go the chipper or supermarket. its coley most of the time


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    HoneyRyder wrote: »
    I have a friend who won't eat tuna because she thinks it's dolphin meat. I told her tuna is a fish and asked her where she got that idea from. Her response was 'How come it says dolphin friendly on the tin then?' which she's apparently taken to mean that the dolphins were killed humanely :rolleyes:

    Tuna friendly dolphins FTW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭some_dose


    HoneyRyder wrote: »
    I have a friend who won't eat tuna because she thinks it's dolphin meat. I told her tuna is a fish and asked her where she got that idea from. Her response was 'How come it says dolphin friendly on the tin then?' which she's apparently taken to mean that the dolphins were killed humanely :rolleyes:

    Though there may be no dolphins within the can you can be almost guaranteed that dolphin, turtles and sharks will have been killed in the catching of the tuna (with the exception of pole caught fish).

    Today in chippers cod is still in use. Some chippers do use other fish (Hoki, pollock, haddock though I'd doubt they'd use hake) and are meant to inform you if they do. There is a massive problem with cod stocks currently and they are perilously close to collapse. So the next time you're in a chipper order something different for cod's sake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    The lack of puns around this plaice is a load of pollocks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Mal-Adjusted


    some_dose wrote: »
    Though there may be no dolphins within the can you can be almost guaranteed that dolphin, turtles and sharks will have been killed in the catching of the tuna (with the exception of pole caught fish).

    Today in chippers cod is still in use. Some chippers do use other fish (Hoki, pollock, haddock though I'd doubt they'd use hake) and are meant to inform you if they do. There is a massive problem with cod stocks currently and they are perilously close to collapse. So the next time you're in a chipper order something different for cod's sake.

    same goes for Tuna, though just moving onto a different fish is akin to kicking the can down the road a bit...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Because shooting gobby teenage American kids in the face online, never gets tired.

    And no-one plays Halo anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    I think they like cod because it's the chunkiest fúcker of a fish around that doesn't really taste like fish. Anyways, I don't know why you've an issue with cod when chips are way more popular and are by far the most tasteless and blandest food around.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,870 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    some_dose wrote: »
    Though there may be no dolphins within the can you can be almost guaranteed that dolphin, turtles and sharks will have been killed in the catching of the tuna (with the exception of pole caught fish).

    Today in chippers cod is still in use. Some chippers do use other fish (Hoki, pollock, haddock though I'd doubt they'd use hake) and are meant to inform you if they do. There is a massive problem with cod stocks currently and they are perilously close to collapse. So the next time you're in a chipper order something different for cod's sake.

    Most chippers seem to only carry cod smoked or unsmoked or those disgusting fish burgers so not much alternatives. One or two have Haddock, plaice or Ray on the menu.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    prefer Bad Company 2 myself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    yekahS wrote: »
    most of them all delish!

    My D4 klaxon is ringing with such ferocity that streams of frightened co-workers are teeming out of the fire exits in my office.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I don't really like fish. And that, my friend, is why i like cod, cos unlike a lot of other fish, it doesn't taste like fish!


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