Which do you prefer? "Seafood" from the Great Lakes? Or seafood from the oceans? (frozen, taste)

[winkosmosis]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

I like true seafood best-of-all, but it's hard to beat fresh Crappie, trout, or bream from a cool river or lake - eaten dockside.

Fresh water fish don't really taste like fish to me. They don't have that salty sea taste that makes ocean fish good.

Trout tastes very similar to frog meat, which makes sense considering amphibians and fish are closely related and both live in fresh water

[tisnjh]

Seafood from the ocean, of course!

[GoFigureMeOut]

I hate freshwater fish. I grew up in a coastal town in New England so we were able to get fish and lobsters right off the boat. There's nothing better in the world than fresh seafood

[sskink]

Best fish I ever ate was a fresh-caught walleye pan fried lakeside up around Brainerd, MN. I've had the luxury of eating scallops right off the boat in Digby, NS and lobster off the boat in Kennebunkport, ME. I have no idea where exactly the eel at Mr. Sushi (don't laugh at the name, it's excellent) in the Polanco zone of Mexico City comes from, but they were sweeter than anything I've had in the US. I do know most of the red snapper I ate while in Mexico was caught off the Yucatan.

Those are my favorite fish/seafood meals of all time, so I'd answer "both".

[Dirt Grinder]

Originally Posted by winkosmosis

...amphibians and fish are closely related...

LOL, thanks for the biology lesson - frogs are as closely related to fish as humans are to frogs.

Frog
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia

Any ray-finned fish (freshwater or marine)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii

Human
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia

It seems we diverge rather quickly.

[Novak Night Eyes]

I like both but I prefer 'fish' from fresh water.

No Cod or anything else tastes like lake perch, bluegill, crappie, walleye, catfish or rainbow trout.


Lobsters, crabs and shrimp have to come from the ocean of course.

[Novak Night Eyes]

These don't come from any ocean.

The Emperor of Japan once had them imported he loved them so much.

That I 'reckon' Sir!!

[Chava61]

I only like certain types of fish and I don't care if they come from a lake or an ocean.

[NOLA101]

Seafood is from the sea. Great lakes would not be seafood.

And obviously saltwater fish is considered better in terms of flavor. That isn't even up for debate.

[momtothree]

I love ocean too. Halibut, Pompano, Tuna, Cod, Trigger etc.

I do like John Dory and Dover Sole (I think that's a freshwater? too lazy to google)

Edited to add: Nope ocean fish too. lol