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Snails, got thousands of them.

 

I love mackerel, especially the free kind.
A friend of mine used to fish for it to use as bait for catching "proper fish" and would drop some off with me if he'd got a good catch.

 

Yes, but you’d eat them with the shell on?

 

You have never bought prawns?

 

No you fish them out like winkles.
Mussels.

 

Farmed salmon is always labelled as such here and I don't buy Scottish or Norwegian. I've occasionally seen wild salmon on sale but rarely and it's very expensive so I don't bother. I can get farmed salmon trout from the Pyrenees here and, so far, texture and taste are fine.

There are no salmon rivers in this part of France so not a huge market for salmon anyway. People here prefer white fish plus mackerel and sardines. They also tend to eat seasonally and what's caught by their local fishing fleets - small boats, not factory trawlers. Lots of shellfish caught in the wild eg clams from the teeny vongole size up to coquilles St Jacques size plus crabs and lobsters. Shrimps and prawns are plentiful too. We're 20kms in from the coast where they have oyster and mussel farms off shore, out in the Atlantic.

 

Never bought a prawn.

Worked with a few in my time though.

 

Just to explain.
You can buy those peeled prawns, tiny bits of pink rubber, or you can buy unpeeled ones, often referred to as "shell on" prawns.
But maybe that is just where I buy them.

 

Just a few things i've seen in wheat,barley,oats which has gone into human food chain

Poo, fox,cat,dog,rat,mice,cow
Petrol cans
Chains
Chainsaw
Potatos
Rats
Cat
Dog, yes still alive after being loaded into trailar and only found when i got to the mill
Fox
Mices
Stone
Ergot
Fertilizer
Pigeons
Sand
And then they is the stuff that you don't see going on!!!!and not mark on paper work!!!

The joy of being a lorry driver!!!!

 

My dad worked as a draftsman, designing packing machines for the food industry. It's amazing how many products/suppliers he avoids after visiting the factories and seeing how clean they were or what actually went in.

 

Just as an fyi, I used to buy chicken from the US when I'd flip over the border for an afternoon. But I didn't find it was "bleaching" that was a problem, it was the plumping up and the consequences to the taste. Turns out some of their packers inject saline into the chicken to plump up it's weight. And it doesn't matter what you do to it, you cannot get that extra salty taste out of it. It is impossible to make it taste like anything but fleshy salt. Two tries for me and that was it, I never bought it again!

 

I expect Americans are all so used to the salty taste that they think normal chicken tastes of nothing.

 

Sounds like it may be a lot safer to stop eating altogether - at least it would reduce world population