Did you know farmed salmon was grey?

The plastic pieces on the ends of shoelaces are called 'aglets'

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The plastic pieces on the ends of shoelaces are called 'aglets'

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That's MY pet obscure fact

Fine: the post that a bannister connects to is called a "newel."

I didn't know that. That's kind of disconcerting.

I like to eat imitation crab and that's mostly just white fish, coloring and crab flavor.

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Never eat farmed Salmon. Only wild Pacific salmon...

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this. I feel bad for people who didn't know this already.

also I've read somewhere the pink pill they use to give the salmon its color is the most expensive part of the farming process.

Wasabi is just horseradish with food coloring.

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Ever had reasonably priced scallops? What you're probably really eating is skate. They basically hole punch the damn thing into scallop like shape.

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When my cousin was little, he used to catch skates and sell them to local seafood restaurants

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Farmed salmon is grey, they add artificial coloring to give it the pink shade of wild salmon.

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Speaking of pink ...



You know that pink thing on the inside corner of your eye? It's called the Plica Semilunaris and it is an evolutionary leftover from times when we had an inner eyelid as some birds, fish and reptiles still have today.

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Additives are also added to some steaks and ground beef to maintain the "raw" red coloring.

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... by Walmart.

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I really don't know of any farm raised seafood that works

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It produces protein to feed people, even if lacking in the quality of the wild caught version. I think it's preferable to overfishing the wild stock.

Got something against grey fish???

Frickin racists all up in here