Why do people hate Tilapia so much? Plentiful pest fish for everyone
>>7627711
Tastes like shit
For one, they say it's dangerous to human health and the environment. For another, raising/farming it is both cheap and easy, so there's no reason it should ever cost as much as it does in some stores.
There's no reason it should ever cost more than a buck or two per pound, depending on if you buy it filleted or whole.
Farmed tilapia (which, let's be honest, is the vast, vast, vast, vast, VAST majority of tilapia sold anywhere) has barely any flavour to it. It's got a neutral taste.
>>7627733
Where are you that tilapia costs much more than $2/pound?
>>7627747
Quite literally anywhere that's not an Asian grocery store sells it for more than $2/lb. Many places sell it for considerably more than $2/lb. I've seen it as high as $6/lb. For that price, I'd rather buy seafood that actually tastes like something.
>>7627747
Not him, but unless you're buying bulk frozen Vietnamese fecal brick fish at aldi, it's going to cost more than $2
>>7627782
Four years ago doesn't count, my Texan friend.
OP what you are going to get here is a bunch of Bullshit feminist excuses .
Since I went full MGTOW I eat tilapia whenever the fuck I please.
Boring as fuck
Especially compared to premium fish like salmon and Chilean sea bass
Fuck sea bass is deliciously rich, flesh like butter and a light flavor great steamed
>>7627803
To be fair it could have been four years ago, the point is kind of moot though, after $4/pound you have much better options even in landlocked areas.
Bottom feeder that tastes like mud and shit, gritty texture sometimes, and it's a natural inflammatory.
You could literally dig a hole in the ground, fill it with water and grow tilapia.
Nasty...
tilapia is fish for people who don't like fish
>>7627824
I haven't seen tilapia for anywhere near that price outside of Asian grocers ($2.99/lb) for about four years, which is why I said that. It's skyrocketed in value for absolutely no reason. They're cheaper and easier to raise than rabbits, so by the concepts of supply (super motherfucking high) and demand (not nearly as high, considering the bad press tilapia's been getting), the prices should be considerably lower, but they're inexplicably not.
Since it's a bland garbagefish, the only thing going for it was that it was super cheap, but as it hasn't even got that anymore, there's really no reason to buy it, ever.
I've since switched to whiting* for all my frying needs since tilapia is $5.99/lb at my local supermarkets (unless it's on sale when it drops to $3.99/lb) and whiting is $2.99 regular price and $1.99-$2.49 when on sale.
Fucking delicious-ass salt-cod can be said to be cheaper than tilapia now. See, it's $9.99/lb, but after soaking in water, it swells to nearly double its dry weight, so it's like getting it for around $5.49/lb or so. And I love fried salt-cod.
>* 'whiting' refers to a huge number of fish species in different parts of the English-speaking world, but in the US, it's what the Americans call hake
>>7627915
So the Corona of fish.
it tastes like mud
wikipedia will tell you more
>>7627932
corona and tilapia is the perfect meal for a suburban college age girl on spring break
>>7627808
>salmon
I haven't had good salmon since 1983
It's all farmed, even the "wild" stuff tastes like ass because of escaped GMO shitfish
RIP traditional seafood, hello frankenfoods for Monsanto shills
>>7628086
Wild salmon is not even the same species as farmed salmon you gigantic fucking tool
>>7628099
It very much is, newfriend. Meat is very different because of dyed and engineered fodder, and lack of space. A wild salmon is pale and lean compared to a farmed one. Just like a european is to a burger.
>>7628086
>He doesn't eat Alaskan salmon.
>>7627805
haha what a fag. Since I went full MGTOW I only tear raw meat with my canine teeth from the biggest bulls to get that test.
>>7628154
If you were a real MGTOW you would not need extra testosterone.
Just avoiding women increases it.
Daily exposure to women keeps levels much lower.
>>7627711
Learn to enjoy it, it'll be the only fish left soon.
>>7627733
How is it dangerous to human health?
>>7628154
>MGTOW
thanks for telling me about this
what a crack up
>>7628368
first they laugh
>>7627711
Someone just needs to find a cheap food that will flavor the tilapia. Or genetically engineer a better one.
>>7628645
You fucking idiots talapia is not genetically engineered.
>>7628359
not sure, but maybe because it's a bottom-feeder?
It tastes like fucking dirt. Like seriously more than half of the tilapias I ate tasted like fucking dirt. The rest are tasteless.
>>7627711
Panga is cheaper to farm and unfortunately more popular, I prefer the cod-like texture of Tilapia. Of course ocean cod isn't much more expensive.
>>7628086
It's almost Copper River salmon season. Go buy that. Remember only medium rare or medium don't cook it well done.
>>7628086
>It's all farmed
My friends in Toxicology wont eat it because much of it is farmed on a diet of human waste in China. Toxicologists are generally pretty good at assessing risk and not afraid of any little exposure because they have perspective on more serious exposures. I trained in Toxicology before doing my current job and I am inclined to trust the assessments of my former colleagues. Thus, no tilapia on the menu.
>>7628063
I can't even
>>7629800
neat but wouldnt a dietition be a better person to ask?
I don't care for whatever environment crap, I just think it tastes like crap.
I grew up eating fresh fish from the ocean almost daily.
>>7627762
I saw it in manhattan last year in a key food for $6/lb farmed in argentina. Looked like boogers in a blue foam tray.
>>7628116
The biggest problem for salmon farming is currently the pink color and low muscle weight of farmed salmon, salmon are supposed to be orange to red and are much meatier
>>7627808
I love chili and sea bass
>>7628948
but so are lobsters and crabs
>>7627711
Grouper4lyfe
>>7629933
i didn't say it made sense.
>>7629951
I know, I wasn't so much correcting you as trying to guess with you since I don't know either. It just didn't sound right b/c of that fact.
>>7629964
fair enough.
>>7629810
You've never thrown a lure in your life, have you?
>>7629810
>Farmed or escaped farmed fish.
Dumbass...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_trout
>>7629942
Go drink a glass of water. All chemicals are bad for you, right?
>>7628116
Not at all. Species difference is what you taste. You'd know that if you read the package of you bought either in a supermarket or fish market. Even Kroger brand specifies.
>>7629800
>toxicology = study of chemicals on organisms
>chemicals =/= human waste
>primary concern from fecal contamination is biological
>Lobsters and crabs eat feces from animals with worse hygiene than humans.
And?
>>7629998
>hatcheries operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Are not fish farming.
And you're still a dumbass.
>>7629998
not him, but how do you not know the difference between a hatcheries and fish farms baka
>>7630033
Human waste often contains pharmaceuticals and human pathogens
>>7630011
you'd be too afraid to touch the gun, so it's a moot point.
>>7630128
That's not a salmon m8
>>7630147
And cow and chicken and rat and cat and dog shit does not?
>>7627932
pls explain someone
>>7630033
>chemicals=/=human waste
???????????????????????????????
>>7627733
>has barely any flavour to it. It's got a neutral taste.
This is the main reason I hate on tilapia and only buy the frozen fillets that are already breaded, etc. I like saltwater fish the best. Spanish mackerel, blue fish, and rock fish (striper) are some of my favorites. Mahi mahi, swordfish, and tuna are also great.
>>7629932
>It's because a fuck ton of it comes from China
Maybe you should check the origin of your food then. I purchase tilapia (frozen and parmesan breaded) that is farmed in the USA.
I check food origins and avoid China.
>>7627711
It has probably the grossest name ever.
"tilapia"
Barf
>>7629932
This is clearly false. The chickens would drown
>>7631295
chinese hold the chickens
>>7629933
You don't eat the part of lobster that is sea shit
>>7628086
Eat your mcdonalds and Whole Foods goy, stop whining about GMO
>>7628063
How exotic for her after blowing 30 guys
>>7630033
kill self
>>7628063
Highly underrated post
Tilapia is far too bland, like sole (name fits the fish, might as well be the sole of my shoe)
>>7627720
I had it for the first time the other day and was pretty good and I don't like many types of fish (just salmon, tuna and swordfish)
My girlfriend made me eat it with the head on which was kinda gross, but she was right, the face meat is delicious.
Then I outdid her by eating the eyeball. The look on her face was worth it. (and the eyeball didn't actually taste bad).
>>7629769
Steelhead is better than salmon in every way.
>>7633733
Is she Asian?
>>7631295
Chickens float like ducks.
>>7633752
Mexican.
>>7627720
I guess they literally are what they eat.
>>7627711
It's a meme fish
Wild fish is dirtier and more unhealthy than farmed fish.
>>7635919
>Same with wild snatch
Really?
I hope you're proud of yourself, Anon.
I'm not very knowledgeable of fish, but I think tilapia tastes fine.
Anyone else just slightly allergic to tilapia?
I'm not allergic to anything I know of, food or otherwise, but the last two times I ate tilapia, both at different places, my lips swelled just enough to be noticeable. Really weird reaction. I didn't even know you could be "slightly allergic."
>>7635991
My ex once said "I love kiwifruit, but you know that weird, tingling feeling on your lips, tongue and back of your throat when you eat it? I hate that."
>no... i don't know that weird, tingling feeling on my lips, tongue and back of my throat when i eat kiwifruit. i think you may have an allergy
"Really? Wow. Once, it made my lips swell up because I ate, like, a pound of them. It was funny!"
>you are such a fucking dingbat
>>7635991
Could just be because of the heavy pesticide usage rather than the Tilapia itself.
>>7635991
Allergies can increase in severity with each exposure.
>>7627711
>all that loose bones surrounding the stomach
>any flavor added to it and any preparation done with it doesn't make it less slimy
Tilapia tacos with salsa verde are fuckign amazing
I eat tilapia all the time, because that's what's usually available if I want seafood takeout. There's nothing particularly wrong with it, it just isn't a very exciting fish. Bland and boring.
>Living away from the coast
>not having a freezer perpetually stocked with halibut, sea bass, yellowtail, yellowfin tuna and other assorted reef fish.
