Spyke
slrpnk.net

Salmon is delicious and I totally get why bears get so hyped when they return to rivers to spawn.

Fuck yeah, I’m up to my furry little ears in salmon snacks y’all!” - Bears

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Kusimulkkureply
lemm.ee

Bears know nothing, they haven't even tasted it in the ultimate form, graved. Smoked is good too but those silly sods haven't done that either. Pfft.

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What's worse, there is a decent chance at least one bear has, but there was no way for him to convince any other bear. All the right circumstances had to line up perfectly for that random campsite he ate at to have that specific meal be interrupted. And bear language doesn't have the nuance to convey just how much better it was than raw.

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Kusimulkkureply
lemm.ee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax

If you ever get the chance to test graved salmon then I highly recommend it

What am I saying, "if you ever get the chance", it's so piss easy to make that I should've have just said "you should make it"

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Empricornreply
feddit.nl

Thank you for the info, but I burn cereal. What type of restaurant would make this?

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Kusimulkkureply
lemm.ee

It's honestly really really easy. Probably the easiest way to prepare salmon. In the evening you take raw salmon fillet, you put plenty of sea salt on it, a tiny bit of sugar and hefty amount of dill. Put in the fridge. In the morning, it's done. Slice it into nice slices and eat as is or put on rye bread with some onion. I never bother with the sauce, seems superfluous and just hides the salty salmon taste.

I don't know what sort of restaurant would have it. Outside of some specialty Swedish kitchen or Nordic or Norwegian one, could be in some sea food one as an appetizer I guess? But almost always the ready made ones or even ones at restaurant go light on the salt and rely on the sauce. It's much better imo when you make it yourself.

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lemmy.world

Might as well call it crustacean pink instead. That name sounds much better than a word with a silent L.

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s_sreply
lemm.ee

Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.

Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.

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s_sreply

Mercury is more highly concentrated in higher-level organisms in a similar fashion, yes.

But mercury itself has nothing to do with coloring.

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This is also the source of a flamingo's colour. The debate if salmon are fishy flamingos or flamingos are feathery salmon has yet to be settled.

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JackbyDevreply
programming.dev

I thought Salmon were actually gray on the inside? Is this a farm raised versus wild thing?

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sh.itjust.works

Whitish gray, like a lot of fish and bird meat. The pink comes from their natural diet, which they don't have in captivity, so farms dye the meat artificially so it looks like wild-caught salmon

If the color of the meat turns you off, wait until you think about the fact that it's a dead body

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Just to add to this, the artificial colour is added to the fish's diet. They also adjust the colour depending on the market. For example, apparently Japan prefers a bright pink colour, while Italy and France prefer a less bright pink colour.

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s_sreply

Farm-raised salmon are usually pink. Wild caught salmon are usually bright red.

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Sean Kelly, @[email protected]

ME: We have a color named after you

SALMON: Really? Is it silvery-blue like my scales?

ME: No, uh …

SALMON: Wait why is it pink?

ME: …

SALMON: WHY IS IT PINK?!?

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So, don't people generally know that Salmon is pink in color? Well, pinkish-orange anyway. My question is - what happens if you're a girl and.....you don't LIKE THE COLOR PINK!! (Sorry I'll give you a moment to recover from having your mind blown). I'm male and I hate the color pink but not because it's the color of every toy ever made for girls - it's just a color that makes me think of Pepto Bismal. I don't see the attraction.

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