Illinois to feed Asian Carp to the Poor

[Feuer Frei!]

What do you do with a bony, ugly, jumpy, fat, fugitive fish that's taken over the Mississippi and Illinois rivers and threatens the ecology of the Great Lakes? Grind them into fish sticks and feed them to the poor.
That's the latest strategy from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in its tussle with the Asian carp. The department plans to process tons of the fish and donate it to food banks, including the St. Louis Area Food Bank.


SOURCE (http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2011/07/18/illinois-to-feed-asian-carp-to-the-poor.html)

Yea, give them to the poor because they won't know any different. :haha:
All the while meeting your moral obligations to your fellow human beings! :down:

[yubba]

the way to cook carp, place on pine plank, place in pre heated oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour, remove and scrape fish off into trash, eat plank.:O:

[the_tyrant]

Its really odd how something that people consider to be "inedible" in the US is considered a gourmet dish in China

http://www.iniuu.com/Files/2009050623044050977.jpg

[Growler]

...eat plank.:O:

MMmm! Yummy fiber!:yeah:

[Feuer Frei!]

the way to cook carp, place on pine plank, place in pre heated oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour, remove and scrape fish off into trash, eat plank.:O:

:haha::up:

[Tribesman]

Probably one of the best ideas to come out of Illinois for a while.
I am surprised they didn't try to expand the export market more, but then again why would people import frozen when they can get it fresh in any fishmonger cheaper. And I suppose you must weigh the problems the industry will have with America trying to export a common foodfish to a big market while at the same time trying to block that markets exports of a common foodfish to America which would make business deals quite interesting.

the way to cook carp, place on pine plank, place in pre heated oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour, remove and scrape fish off into trash, eat plank.
Obviously yubba hasn't eaten much real food.

[Rockstar]

You would be surprised at the number of species of fish people once looked upon as they do carp but now consider them as sought after delicacies.

Take soft shell crab for instance. Vile and dirty bottom feeders a species that even smell like what they eat, poop. Never a market for it really until after civil war when the economy tanked and food was scarce. It made for a cheap and easily attainable food source which people could make money off. Today a savory delicacy sold for big bucks.

A federaly imposed moratorium on Red Snapper licenses? Big whoop! just go find a new and unregulated species nobody ever heard of before like Talapia. Another poo eater which good advertising now tells us is a delicacy at $12.00 or more a pound, served at only the finest restaurants.

I can almost gaurantee, you'll be hearing in the news soon how great the nutritional value and tastiness of carp is. Carp are everywhere and better yet an unregulated species so it's only a matter of time before someone discovers a market for them. And wa-la we have new delicacy!

[Osmium Steele]

Smoked carp isnt bad eating if you don't mind all the bones.

Really is kinda like having a mouth full of splinters.

[AVGWarhawk]

Crap, carp can be considered good country crock pot cook'in considering the crap the carp eats. :DL

[gimpy117]

I'm sure it's better than nothing and it's probably okay if it's processed right. Pollack isn't any high class fish and that's what they normally use.

[Betonov]

We eat carp quite often. Not as often as a trout, but if we catch one young one it's grilled before you say carpe diem. Old carps, like eating a tire with bones

[Jimbuna]

I tried Carp once, it had been cooked in a pressure cooker to make it easy to separate the bones from the fish....I didn't rate it though, much prefer trout.

[Madox58]

Its really odd how something that people consider to be "inedible" in the US is considered a gourmet dish in China



OK.
Let's catch and sell them to China.
Then we can have Steak!

Some big squichy bugs are considered a treat in some areas.
That does not mean you force feed them to poor poeple!

The Human body is a good source of food also.
Should we take all unclaimed Bodies and grind them into Solant Green?

[Oberon]

Got to be better than Snook hasn't it? :hmmm:

[Madox58]

I don't know what Snook is.
Given a survival situation?
I would eat anything that did not eat me first.
And I have done that.

We, as a Nation trash so much good food to keep prices high.
Now they want to feed trash food sources to the poor?
This is wrong in so many ways that I'm just beside myself as to what to think!

[Oberon]

I don't know what Snook is.
Given a survival situation?
I would eat anything that did not eat me first.
And I have done that.

We, as a Nation trash so much good food to keep prices high.
Now they want to feed trash food sources to the poor?
This is wrong in so many ways that I'm just beside myself as to what to think!

Snook is a species of fish (and also a US WWII submarine but I digress). During the war when cod was hard to come by, many UK fish and chip shops replaced cod with snook or other such cod substitutes.
Like you say, it was better than starving.

[Gerald]

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5679/176snookfish.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/263/176snookfish.jpg/)

Taste good, :03:

[Jimbuna]

Snook is a species of fish (and also a US WWII submarine but I digress). During the war when cod was hard to come by, many UK fish and chip shops replaced cod with snook or other such cod substitutes.
Like you say, it was better than starving.

Very true....and considered a worthy replacement by people as I recall.

[Tribesman]

Now they want to feed trash food sources to the poor?

It isn't trash food.

Got to be better than Snook hasn't it?
Depends what kind of snook.
If you look recently lots of places have been found to be selling snook , asian carp, catfish and dozens of other species as cod and their customers have been eating it all without any complaint.
The only complaint has been from trading standards for mis labeling and charging premium prices for very cheap fish.

[em2nought]

I'd prefer we don't feed fish to the poor, they might live longer. Let's just give them bamboo fishing rods, work or die. :D