Like so many fish, it’s spectacularly ugly. Not as ugly as the barreleyes or Frankenfish, but still pretty ugly. However, unlike the barreleyes, the hoki or blue grenadier, a fish found off the waters of New Zealand, is delicious. In fact, you’ve probably eaten it several times in you life. Namely, if you’ve ever chowed down on a Filet-O-Fish sandwich from McDonalds or dined on Long John Silvers or Denny’s fish dishes, then you’ve had hoki. Every year, 100,000 tons of the fish are caught in the Pacific to feed the world’s never-ending hunger for seafood.
Apparently, this is how the fishing industry works. They pick a group of fish, and if it turns out to be tasty, they do their best to catch it to death. The Filet-O-Fish alone has gone from cod to hoki and now to pollock mixed with hoki. Eventually they’re going to run out of tasty fish if they keep this up, then we’ll be eating artificially flavored lamprey sandwiches or minced fish bits that have been compressed into patty form.
Honestly? Unless we’re talking salmon or catfish, pretty much all fried white fish is the same to me. So long as it’s breaded and fried, I’ll probably eat it.
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