Suu's typical rant on how you should properly tip your waitstaff.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It takes two to do the pretention tago, you know...

Do I ever initiate this bullshit with you? Maybe you enjoy trying to start shit with me, but I don't enjoy it, whether it's criticizing my recipes or jumping in with a snide comment when I'm talking to someone else.

Now you know.

[Z³]

Well, I looked into it a little bit yesterday.

1. Overfishing isn't the root cause of Salmon depopulation, it may be a contributing factor, but it seems Dams are the root cause. I learned something.

2. There aren't very many places that serve wild salmon here, I can think of one. They also may be the only place that carries Wagyu beef.

3. The people that irritate me because they refuse to eat anything but the wild salmon still irritate me, because they're rich white people... and maybe its just my ignorant upbringing, but I'm not the biggest fan of rich white people. Thats probably an example of my job turning me racist, maybe there are cool rich white people, but when I work sunday brunch on two hours of sleep, I cant help but be a little irritated by the rich white people that I have to deal with.

These are the same people who try to special order everything, and threaten to leave when we dont put sun-dried tomatoes on their omelette. We dont have sun dried tomatoes, and no matter how much you're friends with the owner, that will never change.

Also, the big local fish here is walleye. Walleye

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am neither rich nor white, and I won't eat farmed salmon because it's gross. I'm one of those assholes who'll only eat wild salmon (a dick).

[Z³]

I am neither rich nor white, and I won't eat farmed salmon because it's gross. I'm one of those assholes who'll only eat wild salmon (a dick).

Well, I'm sorry that I may have insulted you. It wasn't my intention, and the next time I make it out to the coast, I'll eat some wild salmon and make up my own mind based off of the virtue of personal experience.

[East Coast Hustle]

perhaps this can be chalked up to the vast cultural and culinary differences between PDX and Omaha?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am neither rich nor white, and I won't eat farmed salmon because it's gross. I'm one of those assholes who'll only eat wild salmon (a dick).

Well, I'm sorry that I may have insulted you. It wasn't my intention, and the next time I make it out to the coast, I'll eat some wild salmon and make up my own mind based off of the virtue of personal experience.

You could just go get some at Whole Foods. It's not going to be all that expensive and it's the same stuff we have out here... ie from Alaska. Excepting the Warm Springs salmon they sell at Fred Meyer during spawning, that shit's good and damn cheap. Or if you come eat at my friend John's house, he likes to go salmon fishing once or twice a year.

Anyway, consider the hatchet buried.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

perhaps this can be chalked up to the vast cultural and culinary differences between PDX and Omaha?

It is possible.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I had to look up "Walleye" because I did not know what they are, and I read that they are delicious.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Walleye is very yummy, esp fresh... Salmon is yummy fresh, Bass is yummy fresh, Bluegill is yummy fresh, catfish, panfish, crapie, sunfish, and even carp are yummy fresh (just gotta be careful when cleaning the carp and catfish).

In fact, I think I've enjoyed pretty much every kind of fresh fish that I've had... frozen fish is sometimes good and sometimes bad though.

[Jenne]

I need to try fresh tilapia--I've heard it's so much better than frozen it's amazing.  Because frozen tilapia is ass.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I need to try fresh tilapia--I've heard it's so much better than frozen it's amazing.  Because frozen tilapia is ass.

Correct Motorcycle Jenne!

[Jenne]

I need to try fresh tilapia--I've heard it's so much better than frozen it's amazing.  Because frozen tilapia is ass.

Correct Motorcycle Jenne!

VROOM VROOM!

[Freeky]

Frozen fish in general is crap. I never had a package where I didn't end up munching on bones and losing my apetite. Unless you're supposed to eat the bones?

[Jenne]

I have had some frozen that's ok.  But really, in San Diego, it's a crime, quite literally, to NOT buy fresh.  Fr rls.

[East Coast Hustle]

some darker-fleshed fish stand up to IQF freezing quite well (the odds that you've ever eaten fresh tuna are astronomical), but it doesn't do anything for more delicate white-fleshed fish.

fish that take IQF well: Tuna, Swordfish, Bonito, Mahi-mahi, Barramundi, Kingfish, Shark (which is much of the "swordfish" that's commercially available).

I gotta disagree with Rat, though. Catfish is fucking nasty no mater what. Fresh-water bottom feeders FTL.