Remember Rick Stein in France telling a chef how delicious his fish dish was. He told him the fish had come from Cornwall. In general people in the UK are very unadventurous. Cod and Haddock, maybe plaice but anything else is exotic. Spaniards love hake but we don’t eat much of it.
In digs in Slough when I first left Hull, 1970. landlady would serve pike regularly. It was ok, just.
Not a huge fan either. It's not terrible as such, but for the money, it's not great or worth it for the effort to eat. Prefer crab with browned butter.
I agree, although it’s a circular problem Because people didn’t used to want to eat them they have sales set up on the Continent now which they understandably don’t want to give up. Now if people here did want to it’s tough
Isn't it the price? Spanish customers pay a premium for certain fish/shellfish, so it's sold to them. If oysters/mussels/scallops were as cheap as they were 70 years ago, ppl would eat them. As it stands, per protein gram, beef, lamb, chicken and pork are now a lot cheaper than seafood. My grandmother thought chicken was a luxury product as produced eggs, so too expensive to eat and oysters were cheap muck.
Mussels are cheap enough and in abundance up here(They are also the best you'll get flavour wise) but Langoustine and Lobster are scarce and expensive.
Absolutely They have sales set up at a higher price that people here tend to be prepared to pay (despite the understandable verbal support for our fishing industries as soon as the price goes up people stop supporting it)
