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The ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to raise food safety concerns about possible health effects from contaminated seafood harvested from the Gulf. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with other federal and state agencies are monitoring the seafood supply for signs of oil contamination. For the seafood to pose a health risk, the food would have to be heavily contaminated with oil, and would therefore have a strong odor and taste of oil. Presently, testing of seafood from the gulf is being conducted by the Gulf States, FDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
CDC recognizes the importance of anticipating, monitoring, and responding to public health hazards that may affect human health. CDC is monitoring for potential illnesses across the United States that may be associated with exposure to contaminated seafood. Persons who consume seafood contaminated by oil may experience the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. We understand that these symptoms are general, and that consumption of contaminated seafood might not necessarily be the cause.
The CDC is working closely with state and local health departments, the FDA and the American Association of Poison Control Centers to ensure that we can quickly identify and respond to any potential seafood contamination. However, if you identify a cluster of persons with gastrointestinal illness that may be associated with exposure to oil contaminated seafood, we ask you to:
* investigate the cluster as you would normally investigate a cluster of illness,
* make sure your local and state health department are aware of the situation, and
* notify CDC if a food borne outbreak associated with contaminated seafood is identified.
Please notify CDC by calling the Emergency Operations Center at 404-639-7100.
http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=576&z=34
Your link has no date-line. This one does.
http://www.fda.gov/food/ucm210970.htm
Quote from: LOsborne on August 17, 2010, 07:19:24 PM
Your link has no date-line. This one does.
http://www.fda.gov/food/ucm210970.ht
I received it just before I posted it. My first thought was surely they aren't going to try to sell that stuff.
Buy one pound of fresh farm raised shrimp. Clean and add 4 caps full of dish wash detergent and fry golden brown. And you have the taste of fresh Gulf shrimp.
:biggrin:
Quote from: The Troll on August 20, 2010, 10:17:29 PM
Buy one pound of fresh farm raised shrimp. Clean and add 4 caps full of dish wash detergent and fry golden brown. And you have the taste of fresh Gulf shrimp.
Better make sure it's Dawn 'cause that cuts the grease. :biggrin:
Quote from: me on August 21, 2010, 01:48:55 AM
Better make sure it's Dawn 'cause that cuts the grease. :biggrin:
And CRUDE! :biggrin: :yes:
What was so suprising to me and my wife was the lack of Gulf of Mexico sea food at the stores in Florida and Gulf Shores Alamba. The only place we found Gulf sea food was at a small shrimp fisherman in Alabama.
None of the sea food in the store came from the Gulf or the East coast. All of it came from the Pacific Ocean. Most of it was imported.
The next time you buy sea food, check where it came from, I'll bet it didn't come for the Gulf.
I don't see what the big deal is, lots of folks like their seafood cooked in oil. Of course there's them that likes it boiled too.
Lots of my relatives live in the bayou down in Louisiana and they tell me that there is a lot of folks, that normally are out fishing this time of year, plan to hunt alligators when season comes in. Alligator season comes in the first week of September and Cousin Rebert says that the bayou is gonna be full of first time alligator hunters. Rebert tells me that the average gator goes for a little over $300 and they is in season for 30 days.
I ain't never tried eatin alligator myself but I eat on turtle a couple times, they mighty good.
Quote from: Lester Sasquatch on August 27, 2010, 09:06:26 AM
Cousin Rebert says that the bayou is gonna be full of first time alligator hunters.
Bet there are also gonna be some gators that are full of first time alligator hunters. :icon_twisted:
Quote from: Olias on August 27, 2010, 09:25:13 AM
Bet there are also gonna be some gators that are full of first time alligator hunters. :icon_twisted:
I'll bet you might be right about that. :biggrin:
I bet the alligators are going to be excited about all the new eating options. ;D
I'd try eating 'gator if given the opportunity, but the thought of hunting them makes me sad. They're such cool creatures.
They're legal to hunt now, and I'll admit to having sampled them.
Gator is pretty tasty, you can buy it canned from Cabelas if you really want to try it. I've had it steamed, I've had it breaded and fried, I've had it boiled. Tastes like chicken! :biggrin:
Quote from: Palehorse on August 27, 2010, 10:59:55 AM
Gator is pretty tasty, you can buy it canned from Cabelas if you really want to try it. I've had it steamed, I've had it breaded and fried, I've had it boiled. Tastes like chicken! :biggrin:
Question. Everybody always says this or that meat tastes like chicken but they never say whether it tastes like the breast or the legs of the chicken. Why?
Quote from: Palehorse on August 27, 2010, 10:59:55 AM
Gator is pretty tasty, you can buy it canned from Cabelas if you really want to try it. I've had it steamed, I've had it breaded and fried, I've had it boiled. Tastes like chicken! :biggrin:
I have had some deep fried gator, and it really does taste similar to chicken....it was not bad at all....but then again, I like about anything if it is battered and deep fried.
Good question, 'cause there's a huge difference. I always think they mean white meat, but that's probably b/c that's what I prefer. ;D
Quote from: me on August 27, 2010, 11:02:25 AM
Question. Everybody always says this or that meat tastes like chicken but they never say whether it tastes like the breast or the legs of the chicken. Why?
It has the consistency of lobster, but tastes like the white meat on a chicken. . .
Mostly 'gator tastes like the last thing it ate.
Quote from: followsthewolf on August 27, 2010, 11:11:38 AM
Mostly 'gator tastes like the last thing it ate.
Yum! I love Chinese food. I hear gators eat a lot of dogs.
:spooked:
You know now that you mentioned it, the last one I tried DID have a License plate taste to it... :eek:
Some folks say that turtles have seven different kinds of meat but I don't think so. Turtle meat is very tender if cooked right and, if you are a carnivore like me, you will like it. Most of us in the Martin County clan like it pan fried except for the neck, that part is good to make soup from. The biggest thing about turtle is preparing the critter, once you figure out how to get em out of that shell the battle is over. Elmer Gentry is a river rat on the White River an I seen him clean a turtle once in about 2 minutes. Once Elmer brought in a catfish so big he cut a couple of fillets off of its cheeks. He says that is the best part of a big catfish. I like the channel and flatheads but don't really care for the blues, they have a mud taste that you cannot cover up even with a heavy dose of spices.
On alligator I like the tail cut up in small chunks, dipped in a good corn meal based batter, then fried in hot peanut oil. A little trick I learned this summer was to take bluegill fillets with the skin on, slice them into small strips, and dump them in a pot of boiling water for just under a minute. When these strips hit the hot water they curl up like popcorn shrimp and, with a tad of cocktail sauce, taste a little bit like them too.
Quote from: Lester Sasquatch on August 27, 2010, 12:32:11 PM
I like the channel and flatheads but don't really care for the blues, they have a mud taste that you cannot cover up even with a heavy dose of spices.
Here's a trick we used to use to get rid of the mud taste. Take the fish home alive and put in in a big tub of clean water. Change the water a couple times a day for a few days before you kill it and cook it.
Works for carp, too.
Quote from: Olias on August 27, 2010, 12:40:28 PM
Here's a trick we used to use to get rid of the mud taste. Take the fish home alive and put in in a big tub of clean water. Change the water a couple times a day for a few days before you kill it and cook it.
Works for carp, too.
Thanks for the tip, I will have to try that one.
Soaking the fillets in a brine solution for a few hours helps too.
Quote from: Palehorse on August 27, 2010, 04:07:38 PM
Soaking the fillets in a brine solution for a few hours helps too.
My mom always did that after we fished OR hunted...
Never thought about why, but she did.
I had some friends who got the brilliant idea to just cut the heads off blue gill and wrap them in foil, not scaled first, and freeze them. They would then use them to grill over charcoal and when you unwrapped them the skin would come off and there would be the meat.....Unfortunately they were nasty tasting.....They loved them but I thought they were gross and so did my ex who loves blue gill.
Quote from: me on August 27, 2010, 06:00:52 PM
I had some friends who got the brilliant idea to just cut the heads off blue gill and wrap them in foil, not scaled first, and freeze them. They would then use them to grill over charcoal and when you unwrapped them the skin would come off and there would be the meat.....Unfortunately they were nasty tasting.....They loved them but I thought they were gross and so did my ex who loves blue gill.
Mayby your taste buds were off that day. But most people say and I agree that blue gill is one of the best tasting fresh water fish.
Quote from: The Troll on August 27, 2010, 06:17:04 PM
Mayby your taste buds were off that day. But most people say and I agree that blue gill is one of the best tasting fresh water fish.
Dad always said that too, and he ate every single one he caught. I like them, but would not go so far as to call them the best tasting freshwater fish; for me that title is a very close three way race between walleye, perch, and salmon! :smile:
Quote from: The Troll on August 27, 2010, 06:17:04 PM
Mayby your taste buds were off that day. But most people say and I agree that blue gill is one of the best tasting fresh water fish.
I think maybe it was the way they did them because I've eaten blue gill before and they didn't taste real strong like these did which is why my ex didn't like them either. But something about leaving the skin on and throwing butter on them wrapping them and freezing them that way just, IMO anyway, work out in favor of the flavor.
The newspaper said that the UN is wanting folks to start eating insects because they have hardly any carbon footprints. Heck they probably don't have much of any kind of footprints, specially them that has wings. They tell me those fancy hotels in New York are now serving bedbugs as a complimentary amenity. I was wondering, has any of you folks ever eat bugs and, if you has, what is your favorite.
Quote from: Olias on August 27, 2010, 12:40:28 PM
Here's a trick we used to use to get rid of the mud taste. Take the fish home alive and put in in a big tub of clean water. Change the water a couple times a day for a few days before you kill it and cook it.
Works for carp, too.
I found over the years when any catfish gets to big, to me none of them are good. Also if the catfish main diet is shad, there is nothing you can do to them. They taste like shad. As they say, you are what you eat.
Carp, the only way I like them and I have tried every way. Is to flay them and put them on a thin cedar shingle and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Take out, throw away the fish and eat the cedar shingle. :biggrin:
Quote from: The Troll on August 27, 2010, 10:33:28 PM
I found over the years when any catfish gets to big, to me none of them are good. Also if the catfish main diet is shad, there is nothing you can do to them. They taste like shad. As they say, you are what you eat.
Carp, the only way I like them and I have tried every way. Is to flay them and put them on a thin cedar shingle and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Take out, throw away the fish and eat the cedar shingle. :biggrin:
I have never tried carp, what is the problem with the taste? I saw a show where they cooked something on a cedar shingle once so you had me going there for a little bit Troll. Kinda like the coot and the brick story, I like yours too.
Quote from: Lester Sasquatch on August 27, 2010, 10:57:29 PM
I have never tried carp, what is the problem with the taste? I saw a show where they cooked something on a cedar shingle once so you had me going there for a little bit Troll. Kinda like the coot and the brick story, I like yours too.
I don't know, it must be an acquired taste for them. Just like the taste of raw fish, Sushi, mullet, King Mackerel the blood red tuna and several other types of fish. The Chinese like and raise carp, the bigger the better and they poach them alive. AAAUK. You can have all of the poach fish you want, but not me.
Quote from: Lester Sasquatch on August 27, 2010, 09:15:27 PM
The newspaper said that the UN is wanting folks to start eating insects because they have hardly any carbon footprints. Heck they probably don't have much of any kind of footprints, specially them that has wings.
HAH! This is why I love you, furball. Your unflinching insistence on cutting through the bullshit and living in the real world.
Quote from: The Troll on August 28, 2010, 08:39:05 AM
I don't know, it must be an acquired taste for them. Just like the taste of raw fish, Sushi, mullet, King Mackerel the blood red tuna and several other types of fish. The Chinese like and raise carp, the bigger the better and they poach them alive. AAAUK. You can have all of the poach fish you want, but not me.
Being a creature of the forest and attuned to nature, I cannot stand a poacher either!
Quote from: LOsborne on August 28, 2010, 08:52:47 AM
HAH! This is why I love you, furball. Your unflinching insistence on cutting through the bullshit and living in the real world.
I love you too babe! You are my only human friend that knows how sensitive I am to references about large feet and/or big footprints.
Read the newspaper, I read where one of the largest egg producers was caught hundreds of time with Salmonella in the test samples. I say if they can't produce a safe food product, they should be put out of business. Not given hundreds of chances. SHUT THEM DOWN!