Having worked in a chippie as a teenager & one of my jobs involving pulling the parasitic worms from the Cod fillets I would say Haddock every time (oh & skin on)
You forgot to mention, that the young of both are Goldfish and the reason they stopped using them as prizes on Hook a Duck, at Hull Fair was because after every October a fish shortage became apparent as they had given them all away.
Cod's a shallow water fish, Haddock's a deeper water fish and their diets are slightly different as a consequence.
I always believed, whether its right or wrong, is that Cod is shallow water fish, and Haddock is deep water. But then again theres a lot of things i think are true and aren't...
Diet. Cod will eat anything (including their young) Haddocks are more choosy (they like to eat prawns for example)
If your any good at beach casting there's cod showing on the holderness coast now and lots of whiting go catch your own, freshest fish you'll eat
Couple of problems with this... 1. i am not any good at beach casting, never having tried it. 2. Im not sure my rod or line would reach the holderness coast from here....
I wasn't too sure if I had caught you as a little fishy with your sparkling repartee, so on this occasion I'll let you off the hook
Are we talking "Captain Hook" of Peter Pan fame? I bet he caught some fish.... Maybe he invented fish tickling or what ever it is they do....
Growing up cod was the default, and haddock was a premium (a couple of pence more and generally a smaller fish). Going out boat fishing from Brid or Filey often got cod in 20lbs plus range. Seems to have flipped around now, with haddock usually being cheaper and more plentiful than cod. An in different areas: Mum grew up in Lancashire and used to tell me that hake was very popular there. When I was in Oregon the cheapest fish you could by was chinook salmon, so fish and chips there was often with salmon, with halibut as another option.
So what's north sea cod? Is there shallow parts of the north sea? I assume it's all relative ie shallow water can still mean it lives quite deep.
You can catch cod of our beaches with a rod that's how shallow they come during the winter, haven't heard of haddock being caught of the beach.
Very nice, never have it deep fried though, pan fried or steamed is best. It's not cheap and the fillets are usually pretty small but it's well worth it.
I ate an oyster for the first time earlier this year. It was ****ing disgusting. It actually made me feel physically nauseous after eating it and I barely touched the main course I'd ordered (fish pie), wasted a tonne of money on a meal I hardly ate. Never again. They are not fit for human consumption. I hasten to add it wasn't a raw oyster, it was grilled in the shell with cheese and bacon, and it was much like biting into a massive sloppy bogey. Possibly the vilest thing I've ever eaten.
