Why do people like Cod so much??

Yitzhak Rabin · 25-03-2011 01:50PM #1

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"

Big Nasty · 25-03-2011 01:51PM

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

o1s1n · 25-03-2011 01:52PM

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

prinz · 25-03-2011 01:53PM

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?

boredatwork82 · 25-03-2011 01:53PM

ah now, are ya codding me?

iPlop · 25-03-2011 01:53PM

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?

MagicMarker · 25-03-2011 01:54PM

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.

gbee · 25-03-2011 01:54PM

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.

Aidric · 25-03-2011 01:54PM

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.

dlofnep · 25-03-2011 01:56PM

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

enda1 · 25-03-2011 01:57PM

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).

Tahuti · 25-03-2011 01:58PM

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.

Funkfield · 25-03-2011 01:58PM

o1s1n wrote: »

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

I honestly thought that's what this was about.

Mal-Adjusted · 25-03-2011 01:59PM

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?....

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.

c_man · 25-03-2011 01:59PM

Because hoki fish fingers are muck :pac:

HoneyRyder · 25-03-2011 02:00PM

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:

abouttobebanned · 25-03-2011 02:02PM

Zod.

Fratton Fred · 25-03-2011 02:02PM

Rock salmon ftw.

Haruki · 25-03-2011 02:03PM

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.

My name is URL · 25-03-2011 02:04PM

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

admiralofthefleet · 25-03-2011 02:06PM

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

Mal-Adjusted · 25-03-2011 02:08PM

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

some_dose · 25-03-2011 02:08PM

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.

_feedback_ · 25-03-2011 02:11PM

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

Mal-Adjusted · 25-03-2011 02:11PM

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...

super_furry · 25-03-2011 02:14PM

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

And no-one plays Halo anymore.

Standman · 25-03-2011 02:14PM

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.

Corsendonk · 25-03-2011 02:15PM

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.

smokedeels · 25-03-2011 02:17PM

prefer Bad Company 2 myself.

stovelid · 25-03-2011 02:21PM

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.

sbsquarepants · 25-03-2011 02:21PM

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!

Why do people like Cod so much??

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