caviar

[GoogaMooga]

Regular caviar from Greenland, lump-sucker roe, costs less than £2 a jar.
Deluxe caviar from Russia, sturgeon roe, costs £80 a can!

I think the only time I had real Russian caviar was when I flew with Aeroflot in the 80s. The only good thing about that airline.

Obviously, sturgeon roe is out of reach financially. So I think it's better to have some Greenland caviar than no caviar at all.

Now, on Aeroflot they served the caviar on rye bread, but I think it's better on toast, easier to taste and savor the roe.

So how does caviar figure in your life?

[Belle Lettre]

Iranian.

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

I've tried it a couple of times in the interests of trying local food. However I am no fish fan, this doesn't make it any better. I'll have the champagne, you can have the fish.

There's a pretty funny episode of Frasier when Ros gets hooked on some type of flash caviar

[GoogaMooga]

Iranian.

Cheaper than Russian, then?

[Belle Lettre]

Unlikely. Some years ago, however, it seemed to be going at affordable prices. I took advantage..but it didn't last.

[Footy]

I can't remember ever having tasted real caviar.

When I was a kid, my Mum would wait at table at the extravagant dinners hosted by Sir Hubert and Lady Ashton who had a large pile outside our village.
She'd rescue the earthenware caviar pots afterwards that the Ashtons would have delivered from Fortnums and Harrods. She'sd clean them up and have them as ornaments in the kitchen (that we actually called 'the scullery') and they created a good impression of our diet that, in reality, largely consisted of pigeon, rabbit and pheasant that was poached/hunted by my dad from the Ashtons' land.

[Walk In My Shadow]

As it happens I like pigeon, rabbit and pheasant better than caviar.



Did you ever eat whale meat?

It's good but there's a whole lot of it!

[souphound]

None for me thanks. Pass the peanut butter.

[The Modernist]

I had it once in France. I remember being rather disappointed by it.

[The Modernist]

As it happens I like pigeon, rabbit and pheasant better than cavier:

I made myself a game casserole last night, and I've got enough left for tonight.

[sloopjohnc]

I don't eat fish bait even if you wanna gussy it up with some fancy name.

[Seymore Porn]

I'm not a lover of fish but I'll try anything (bar Sushi) once. I won't try caviar a second time. I've never tasted champagne that I liked either.

[Poppypoobah]

A good one is quite spectacular, I've had quite good and the dyed bad stuff, don't even try the bad stuff, it will put you off the really good fresh caviar. If you ever see the good stuff it's worth a try, much better than real truffles in my opinion.

[GoogaMooga]

A good one is quite spectacular, I've had quite good and the dyed bad stuff, don't even try the bad stuff, it will put you off the really good fresh caviar. If you ever see the good stuff it's worth a try, much better than real truffles in my opinion.

yes, I'm a little disappointed with my Greenland caviar

[trans-chigley express]

I've never had caviar and always imagined it to be the kind of thing no one would touch if it was as cheap as chips. Obviously poppypoobah's comments suggest I'm very wrong.

I've had crab eggs on sushi and I hate it - horribly gritty taste - but I doubt it's a good comparison.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

I'll take what I can get.

[Six String]

California is producing a very fine caviar from our local sturgeon these days. It's a little cheaper than the Russian caviar. It's a rare item in our house. I think the last time I bought some was for new years eve in 2000. We thought if the world was really going to implode we might as well enjoy our last meal, champagne and caviar w/creme fraiche on some kind of kind of bread or cracker which I can't recall. There are other types of roe that are less expensive and easy to get locally at a Japanese grocer but I haven't tried them yet. It's one of those things that I would more likely eat out somewhere instead of home even though it would be cheaper that way.

[Poppypoobah]

I've never had caviar and always imagined it to be the kind of thing no one would touch if it was as cheap as chips. Obviously poppypoobah's comments suggest I'm very wrong.

I've had crab eggs on sushi and I hate it - horribly gritty taste - but I doubt it's a good comparison.

It's like a pop in your mouth of salty goodness. It tastes like the sea smells, fresh and salty, good caviar isn't gritty. It also isn't slimey, it tastes like a little cloud of sea burst on your tongue and it can be any roe but not having had crab roe that might be a different kettle of fish altogether (see what I did there?)

And just so you guys know, I have balked at trying certain foods, like snails when my little sister cooked them in grade school, no way was I gonna try that, then 5 years later I had them and fell in love with them.

My motto is I will give anything 3 goes (or tries) if I still don't like it after 3 sporting tries no preconceptions, I figure it's not for me.

Most of the things I've given 3 goes I've ended up liking by try number two, including oral, anal, caviar and snails. Stuff that didn't make it after 3 tries is much smaller, including bondage, beans and Quorn.

[trans-chigley express]

My motto is I will give anything 3 goes (or tries) if I still don't like it after 3 sporting tries no preconceptions, I figure it's not for me.

I can't afford to give caviar 3 tries

[Jimbo]

I used to eat the cheap stuff on a bagel with cream cheese. Not bad at all. I had the real stuff only once when a chef from a fine Tokyo restaurant pilfered a can of it and brought it along on a day care center kids and parents camp out. Hanging out after the kids went to sleep, drinking sake and dipping my finger into the can was a real pleasure.

Of course, there are a variety of roe which Japanese enjoy the most popular of which is salmon roe (ikura) which American sports folk call "bait." Then there are cod eggs (mentaiko) which, when spiced up, make a fantastic spaghetti topping. And then there are the iridescent orange flying fish eggs eaten as sahimi.