Just watching this, second or third time, not a bad film but just thinking what are they catching. Sword fish! Now I have eaten this in several places around the globe and not bad but would not rave about it. Is it V expensive in the States ? I do not remember paying a lot for it but just wondering why it is portrayed as a vey expensive fish. Fantastic bit as George on the end of a forty foot beam going up and down into the water and his oxy acet never goes out. Must be me as mine seems to go out every time I go under water, oh yeh i think not, and I can never remember wher I put the striker to get the dam thing lit again. I guess thats why he gets paid lots. Regards Steve
All sorts of food (er... well at least one springs to mind) are incredibly expensive based more on the folklore and rarity than the taste. The one that most springs to mind is truffles. Not bad, truffles, but a fairly overpowering odour that doesn't go well with much, except eggs. The cool thing about truffles though is that they are invisible and you can't really grow them. You need a pooch or a pig that has taken endless training to find them. The whole idea of strolllng around an oak forest with a pig on a lead almost justifies the price. Caviar - huge prehistoric fish living in a far-off sea. Nice to eat, but salty glutinous things at that price? Salmon eggs are a lot cheaper, lack the kudos, but with your eyes closed, are they much worse? So with swordfish no doubt: a large fish with a sword on its nose, hard to catch, therefore must taste good. When you think about it, there are bundles of stuff that are absolutely brilliant to eat that cost almost nothing. I made a top pizza just now with stuff out of the cupboard: flour, yeast and water, a jar of tomato and basil sauce, tin of tuna, tin of anchovies, a bit of courgette a few olives and a lump of mozzarella. Rather better than truffles, really. But if you needed to dig up the pizza with the aid of a large farmyard animal, you can bet it would be something only Russian oligarchs could afford.
Glid off to bed but will end with this though. You are on some good stuff out there. Good night my friend Regards Steve
Just re read incase I was tired and not making sence of completley sensible comments. Quote still stands Glid you are on some good stuff. Love you mate Regards Steve Night Night
Oysters - look like (and taste like!) salty snot in a shell ...... right up until Victorian times only the very very poor would eat the bloody things (so any film showing pre-victorian rich folk eating them is also bollocks). Then, cue industrial revolution and pollution of rivers/coastlines on a colossal scale, and all the oysterbeds near large towns get decimated - end result: fewer oysters, found only in remote rivers (well away from cities) so cost of harvesting them rockets, and rich people start eating them as a snub to the poor who now cant afford them!
Swordfish is one of my absolute favourite foods. I will undoubtedly be chowing down on quite a bit when I got to Spain next week. Its not pricey in Europe, a decent restaurant will serve it for between €10 and €13
