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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: s6k Date: 02 Oct 04 - 05:34 AM if anyone has the vinyl of Fisheads by Barnes & Barnes, it is worth thousands of pounds. i took a fish head to the movies didnt have to pay to get him in |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: dianavan Date: 02 Oct 04 - 04:50 AM I love any kind of fresh fish but halibut cheeks are my favorite, followed by smoked sturgeon. I still get my fill of salmon in the summer and appreciate every bite. As a child, my favorite breakfast was smelt, fried potatoes and onions. I've been blessed to have had abundant seafood all of my life. Oysters and clams are a staple. I even caught an octopus in Puget Sound and ground the tentacles and made octopus burgers. I'm missing the cod. Still have the occasional Red Snapper, but the trusty old cod, is no longer 'always around for the jiggin' like in the old days. d |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Rasener Date: 01 Oct 04 - 10:17 AM These are a load of codswallop but there you go :-) What does a fish play the piano with? Fish fingers! Two parrots were sitting on a perch... one said to the other can you smell fish? My fishmonger sold me some under sized shellfish. I'm thinking of taking him to the small clams court! I went to a seafood disco last week..................................and pulled a muscle! What kind of hair does the ocean have? Wavey hair ! Where do shellfish go to borrow money ? To the prawn broker ! What do you call a big fish who makes you an offer you can't refuse ? The Codfather ! How could the dolphin afford to buy a house ? He prawned everything ! Which fish can perform operations ? A Sturgeon ! What happened to the shark who swallowed a bunch of keys ? He got lockjaw ! Where do fish wash ? In a river basin ! Why did the whale cross the road ? To get to the other tide ! Where do little fishes go every morning ? To plaice school ! What fish goes up the river at 100mph ? A motor pike ! What do you get from a bad-tempered shark ? As far away as possible ! What did the sardine call the submarine ? A can of people ! What's the difference between a fish and a piano ? You can't tuna fish ! What do you call a dangerous fish who drinks too much ? A beer-a-cuda ! Who has eight guns and terrorises the ocean ? Billy the Squid ! What happened to the cold jellyfish ? It set ! Where do you find a down-and-out octopus ? On squid row ! What do you get if you cross an abbot with a trout ? Monkfish ! What kind of fish will help you hear better ? A herring aid ! What do you call a fish with no eyes ? Fsh ! How do fish go into business ? They start on a small scale ! What lives in the ocean, is grouchy and hates neighbours ? A hermit crab ! What fish only swims at night ? A starfish ! Which fish go to heaven when they die ? Angelfish ! What bit of fish doesn't make sense ? The piece of cod that passeth all understanding ! What kind of money do fishermen make ? Net profits ! What do you get if you cross a salmon, a bird's leg and a hand ? Birdsthigh fish fingers ! What kind of noise annoys an oyster ? A noisy noise annoys an oyster ! (Try saying that fast!) What kind of fish goes well with ice-cream ? Jellyfish ! What game do fish like playing the most ? Name that tuna ! What do naked fish play with ? Bare-a-cudas ! What do you get if you cross a big fish with an electricity pylon ? An electric shark ! What is a dolphin's favorite TV show ? Whale of fortune ! Why are fish boots the warmest ones to wear ? Because they have electric 'eels ! To whom do fish go to borrow money ? The loan shark ! Why are gold fish orange ? The water makes them rusty ! Who held the baby octopus to ransome ? Squidnappers ! What was the Tsar of Russia's favorite fish ? Tsardines ! How do the fish get to school ? By octobus ! Why did the lobster blush ? Because the sea weed ! What part of a fish weighs the most ? It's scales ! What fish do road-menders use ? Pneumatic krill ! What is dry on the outside, filled with water and blows up buildings ? A fish tank ! Who sleeps at the bottom of the sea ? Jack the kipper ! What did the boy fish say to his girlfriend ? 'Your plaice or mine' ! Where does seaweed look for a job ? In the 'Kelp-wanted' ads ! Why is a fish easy to weigh ? Because it has its own scales ! What happens when sharks take their clothes off ? They go sharkers ! 1st kipper: 'Smoking's bad for you' 2nd kipper: 'It's OK, I've been cured' What kind of fish is useful in freezing weather ? Skate ! Where do you weigh whales ? At a whale weigh station ! Where are most fish found ? Between the head and the tail ! What do fish sing to each other ? Salmon-chanted evening ! How does an octopus go to war ? Well-armed ! What did the boy octopus say to the girl octopus ? I wanna hold your hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand ! What do you get if you cross a trout with an apartment ? A flat fish ! What did the dolphin say when her mate had an accident? You did that on porpoise! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 01 Oct 04 - 09:16 AM Has Olive been stuffed? ... No, no, I can't say that... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Dipsodeb Date: 01 Oct 04 - 06:05 AM Try Asda's Smart Price ones they're 24p, Yep 24p!! for 10 that's hard to beat and actually they are not too bad, especially if they are smothered in tomato sauce. Some of their other Smart Price products are not too bad either. Great for those weeks when your really skint :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 01 Oct 04 - 04:07 AM I feel that I am getting to know not only the supermarkets of Hull but the staff as well. Do you have to sit on a chair to be an Olive or do you have to be an Olive......... I'll get me basket. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Les from Hull Date: 30 Sep 04 - 05:44 PM There's a woman on the till in the Newland Ave shop who might be an Olive. I'm pretty sure she's on a chair though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: ThreeSheds Date: 30 Sep 04 - 08:34 AM I didnt know that Jacksons had been taken over by Sainsburys. I love Sainsburys Kalamata olives.I can't say that that Ive seen any olives in Jacksons that weren't on a frozen pizza |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Blissfully Ignorant Date: 29 Sep 04 - 09:58 PM Jenny-O, that song outlines the reason why i don't go into restaraunts. I go in, scan the menu, realise i can't afford anything, walkout and feel like shooting myself :0). Plus, they never serve fish fingers... Try Farmfoods or Iceland, they're the cheapest i've seen for frozen food. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 29 Sep 04 - 11:44 AM I like that Foolestroupe, but should it not be Medie-evil. Grockles don't know if it's heads or arses, you just make sure that the bits in between are missing. If I remember correctly anyway they're made from about 99% potato. You have to use a musical variety which means that Maris Piper are popular. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 29 Sep 04 - 11:03 AM "Star Gazey Pie" - Gee, that's one of the great Medieval reci-pies... :-) You forgot the impirtant bit why it's called that - you have the heads poking out the crust gazing skyward... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Davetnova Date: 29 Sep 04 - 07:32 AM I think the geoducks are quite nice . Can you get a transplant? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 29 Sep 04 - 06:38 AM Has this got anything to do with Star Gazey Pie. Take 10 mackerel, cover with pastry in a baking dish and cook for 3 days. Remove from the oven throw away the contents and eat the dish. One of the great gastronomic treats from the West Country or so they tell the grockles. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Paco Rabanne Date: 29 Sep 04 - 04:39 AM You must know it! Fish heads, fish heads roly poly fish heads, fish heads, fish heads eat them up yum! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 29 Sep 04 - 04:24 AM i never heard of that song. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: s6k Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:53 AM theyre rubbish! FISHEADS by BARNES AND BARNES is a classic song |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Dave Bryant Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:36 AM John, haveyou any idea of the hardships and dangers of hunting down shoals of wild fishfingers ? Miles Wooton researched the subject and wrote this song about it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: fat B****rd Date: 22 Sep 04 - 03:30 AM Hey, Mrs. Duck. I was at a Family gig at Hull Uni in 1969. Are you old enough to have been there ?. Or is that a question you don't ask a lady ?. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: mack/misophist Date: 22 Sep 04 - 12:28 AM Fish fingers are the last resort of the homesick Inuit or Inupiat. They like to dip them in Wesson Oil. And then eat them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Les from Hull Date: 21 Sep 04 - 10:38 AM Jacksons is now part of Sainsbury's evil empire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: PoppaGator Date: 20 Sep 04 - 11:04 PM I had never heard of "One Fish Ball," but after seeing JennyO's post (above), I did a Mudcat search and learned that the fishball version is the original, dating back to 1926 -- considerably older than the better-known "One Meatball" popularized in the 40s by Josh White and later by Dave Van Ronk. (There's an old thread "Lyr Add: One Fishbabll &d One Meatball.") Funny how one thing leads to another and you sometimes learn something. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,SueB Date: 20 Sep 04 - 10:30 PM If you're having trouble with fish fingers, you ought to try washing your hands in hot soapy water. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Sorcha Date: 20 Sep 04 - 03:47 PM Tasmanian Hand Fish |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Mrs.Duck Date: 20 Sep 04 - 01:25 PM I used to shop in Jacksons on Newlands Ave when I was at Hull Uni but rarely bought fish fingers. We buy them for the kids now but get Tescos own which are about £2 for a pack of 20. Birds Eye are the same price but you only get 16 in a pack. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: JennyO Date: 20 Sep 04 - 11:48 AM A little ditty: Don't Ask For Bread A wretched man walked up and down To buy his dinner in the town. At last he found a wretched place And entered in with modest grace, Took off his coat, took off his hat, And wiped his feet upon the mat, Took out his purse to count his pence And found he had but two half-cents. The bill of fare, he scanned it through To see what two half-cents would do. The only item of them all For two half-cents was one fishball. So to the waiter he did call And gently whispered: One fishball. The waiter bellowed down the hall: THIS GENTLEMAN HERE WANTS ONE FISHBALL. The diners looked both one and all To see who wanted one fishball. The wretched man, all ill at ease Said: A little bread, sir, if you please. The waiter bellowed down the hall: WE DON'T SERVE BREAD WITH ONE FISHBALL. The wretched man, he felt so small, He quickly left the dining hall. The wretched man, he went outside And shot himself until he died. This is the moral of it all, Don't ask for bread with one fishball. (Anon) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: frogprince Date: 15 Sep 04 - 08:45 PM Codfish balls, anyone?... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Shanghaiceltic Date: 15 Sep 04 - 07:09 PM Try fish head hot pot jOhn, a delicacy here. Much nicer than those finger things. My wife loves eating chicken/duck/goose feet, here the Chinese name is the equivalent of phoenix claws, much nicer sounding than fish fingers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Skipjack K8 Date: 15 Sep 04 - 02:59 PM As one previously involved in the shady business of farmed fish feed, I can reveal that there is a highly concentrated pigment used in feed manufacture which stains the white flesh of farmed salmon and trout. It is only pink in the wild. Allegedly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: fat B****rd Date: 15 Sep 04 - 02:51 PM I've been to the Jackson's in Anlaby. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Charley Noble Date: 15 Sep 04 - 02:33 PM Don- And unfortunately "fish-farm grown salmon" are ten times more full of toxins than the wild kind. Has something to do with what they feed them. We're having a bad experience with the quality of what fish-farmers are growing here in Maine. Too bad! Seemed like a great idea. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Don Firth Date: 15 Sep 04 - 02:09 PM Nothing like a good salmon steak. I grew up on salmon. My dad, who was born and raised on San Juan island (north Puget Sound), learned how to cook salmon from his grandfather, who learned how to cook it from the Indians (Sorry! Native Americans.). Unadorned. No gourmet spices, no sauces (maybe a little dollop of tartar sauce on the side), none of the tricking up that some chefs do nowadays. Just the salmon itself. Dad said that when you were oven-broiling it (having set the steaks on a piece of oiled butcher paper on top of the grill), there is a period of about ten seconds when the steak is perfect. Less than that and it's not quite cooked through. More than that and it would start to dry out. Dad's timing was perfect. Why did I start this? I'm drooling all over my keyboard!! Anyway, salmon used to be really inexpensive around here. The salmon and the geoduck (a large, slightly obscene-looking clam—spelled "geoduck," but pronounced "gooey-duck") were indigenous foods around the Pacific Northwest. But now, because of over-fishing and other ecological chains of events (such as clear-cut logging, which removed the trees that slurped up the water that now runs off and silts up the rivers where salmon used to breed; the silt buries the eggs and the fingerlings don't hatch), the North Pacific salmon is an endangered species. You pay as much now for a salmon steak as you'd pay for filet mignon. Didn't used to be that way. And fish-farm grown salmon are nowhere near as flavorful as wild salmon. Fish fingers. That's where all this started. Fish fingers. But, whatever rings your chimes. You have my sympathy. (Sigh) Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Les from Hull Date: 15 Sep 04 - 01:05 PM There's a nice new Co-op store on Princes Ave jOhn. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Charley Noble Date: 15 Sep 04 - 09:24 AM johN- You were complaining about this last year about this time. Here's a link to the ultimate fish fingers song:Click here! My favorite was always "cod cheeks" and fried potato skins. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,A fella of taste Date: 15 Sep 04 - 09:22 AM You mean you pay for fishy fingers in Hull? Most times I've been there the raddled and spavined old townswomen have been so forward that it's hard not to get the darned things for nowt! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST Date: 15 Sep 04 - 08:25 AM The cost truck transportation, and of fishing boat diesel fuel is the main reason John. The |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Sue M Date: 15 Sep 04 - 08:13 AM Glad to hear that Jacksons supermarkets are still around in Hull. I used to shop in the Cottingham branch when I was at Hull Uni in the late Seventies. Can't remember what the price of fish fingers was then though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 15 Sep 04 - 06:59 AM Foolestroupe is quite correct but (a) you are not allowed to catch it and (b) it would have gone off by the time you got it back from Tasmania. So what's this smoked haddock business all about as well. Why do haddock smoke, and how do they keep the cigarettes alight. Are they forced into it like beagles in laboratories? Do they use nautical brands such as Capstan or Senior Service? Am I on the same planet as the rest. Glark used to be such a nice little world before the by-pass.......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 15 Sep 04 - 06:00 AM There is a fish with fingers. It's a very rare thing called the Tasmanian Hand Fish. I'm not making this up, Honest! RObin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Georgiansilver Date: 15 Sep 04 - 05:56 AM By the time everybody has taken their wages and their "cut" of the profit...including Captain Birdseye..No wonder they're so pricey. Best wishes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: s&r Date: 15 Sep 04 - 05:50 AM My wife talks about skate knobs.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: GUEST,Mingulay Date: 15 Sep 04 - 04:01 AM Sir jOhn - fish fingers are expensive because there is a shortage. All people want from fish now is the fingers. Nobody wants the toes so there are plenty them lying around. I know they are small but they do have seven on each hoof so the average cod will have about 23. My local chippy sells cod BALLS! I've never asked. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Dave Hanson Date: 15 Sep 04 - 03:57 AM Fish toes are much cheaper. eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Gurney Date: 15 Sep 04 - 03:55 AM Couldn't you get some fish straight off the trawlers, jOhn? I can just picture you going back home, looking like Scott's Emulsion. Is there still such a product as Scott's Emulsion? Is it just me who remembers the label? Full of Omega3 it was, but not popular with the short comsumers. |
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Subject: BS: Fish Fingers. From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 15 Sep 04 - 03:37 AM Hello, I got some from Jacksons yesterday, £2.19 a packet! bloddy disgrace!, I can remember when they was £1.35, [and thats not all that long ago either], we so expensive nowadays? total bloody rip off. I said to Jacksons woman="theyve gone up a lot!" she says "nowt to do with me". big rip off. |
