What is wrong with eating Anchovies?

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whm1974

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So I've been briefly reading about eating Anchovies as I haven't had them before by themselves. I used order them on pizza when I was in my late teens and I enjoyed it that way. However It seems that quite a few pizza joints don't have them. A real bummer as I'm getting cravings for them as a topping.

I've seen tins of the fish, but not packed in Olive Oil or in jars. So how are they?
 
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They're good, but a little goes a long way, and I don't typically want achovies enough to use a tin in a timely manner
 
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lxskllr said:
They're good, but a little goes a long way, and I don't typically want achovies enough to use a tin in a timely manner
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Which is I prefer to get them in a jar so I don't have to consume the whole tin in one setting.
 
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They smell bad, they have a very strong fishy taste...and that stays on your breath a long time...

However, I will admit to eating one...live anchovy.
About 30 years ago, my wife worked for a small business telephone company. Once every year, they chartered a fishing boat out of Monterey. I LOVE deep sea fishing and rockfish, so we always went. We'd go down the day before, get a motel, have a nice dinner, then get up early, and have a light breakfast before getting on the boat.
Some of the managers of her company treated the trip like a drunken party...stayed out late boozing it up, went and had a big, greasy breakfast, and were still partly drunk or badly hungover when they got on the boat.
That morning, the ocean was...not rough, but had lots of large gentle swells.

One manager, who was an absolute dickhead to everyone beneath him was getting seasick...turning a bit green.

I asked what was wrong..."Oh, I don't feel too well. I mist have had too much to drink."

"Hell dude, I fish out here all the time. I have a sure-fire cure for seasickness." I reached over into the live bait tank, grabbed the biggest anchovy I could catch, and took a bite...about hald of it, including the head...then offered him the rest.

That was it...he was face-first over the rail, puking his asshole out.

(as soon as he started chumming, I had to spit that nasty shit out before I started puking too...I REALLY don't like anchovies)

He finally came up for air and said, "You're a fucking asshole, Boomer!" I grabbed another fish and held it out to him...back to the rail he went...and spent the rest of the trip feeding the fish. :p
 
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Nothing wrong with eating anchovies. I use packed in oil anchovies for pasta and to make Caesar salad dressing. I use large dried anchovies to make soup and noodle stock and smaller dried anchovies for standalone dish. Dashi stock I make using dried kelp, dried mushrooms, and dried anchovies is my most used stock.
 
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They're overpowering and they look like fury slugs. I don't mind them, but we live in an era where people are grossed out by bones in chicken, so yeah...they're disappearing.
 
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Fritzo said:
They're overpowering and they look like fury slugs. I don't mind them, but we live in an era where people are grossed out by bones in chicken, so yeah...they're disappearing.
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Like anything, it's how you use it. It's not disappearing at all. Maybe as pizza topping but that's just one small use. Japanese and Korean cuisines have exploded in popularity worldwide. If you've eaten Japanese or Korean food, it's more than likely you ate food made with anchovy stock and didn't even know it.
 
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Fritzo said:
They're overpowering and they look like fury slugs. I don't mind them, but we live in an era where people are grossed out by bones in chicken, so yeah...they're disappearing.
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Why would people be grosses out by bones in chicken?
 
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Fritzo said:
but we live in an era where people are grossed out by bones in chicken
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WUT? Do they not know that fish normally has bones too, and grapes and watermelons have seeds?

I wonder if modern millenials would puke, if they ever got a piece of watermelon with a seed in it, rather than take pleasure in spitting out the seed.
 
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VirtualLarry said:
WUT? Do they not know that fish normally has bones too, and grapes and watermelons have seeds?

I wonder if modern millenials would puke, if they ever got a piece of watermelon with a seed in it, rather than take pleasure in spitting out the seed.
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My partner has lamented the spread of seedless watermelons for that very reason.
 
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BoomerD said:
They smell bad, they have a very strong fishy taste...and that stays on your breath a long time...

However, I will admit to eating one...live anchovy.
About 30 years ago, my wife worked for a small business telephone company. Once every year, they chartered a fishing boat out of Monterey. I LOVE deep sea fishing and rockfish, so we always went. We'd go down the day before, get a motel, have a nice dinner, then get up early, and have a light breakfast before getting on the boat.
Some of the managers of her company treated the trip like a drunken party...stayed out late boozing it up, went and had a big, greasy breakfast, and were still partly drunk or badly hungover when they got on the boat.
That morning, the ocean was...not rough, but had lots of large gentle swells.

One manager, who was an absolute dickhead to everyone beneath him was getting seasick...turning a bit green.

I asked what was wrong..."Oh, I don't feel too well. I mist have had too much to drink."

"Hell dude, I fish out here all the time. I have a sure-fire cure for seasickness." I reached over into the live bait tank, grabbed the biggest anchovy I could catch, and took a bite...about hald of it, including the head...then offered him the rest.

That was it...he was face-first over the rail, puking his asshole out.

(as soon as he started chumming, I had to spit that nasty shit out before I started puking too...I REALLY don't like anchovies)

He finally came up for air and said, "You're a fucking asshole, Boomer!" I grabbed another fish and held it out to him...back to the rail he went...and spent the rest of the trip feeding the fish. :p
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So what did the live fresh anchovy taste like?
 
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Also whenever I think of anchovies the one thing it always makes me remember is:

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I'm not a huge fan of anchovies, but I don't think you can be a legit pizza/anything Italian joint if you don't offer anchovies somewhere on the menu.

You can't make puttanesca without them, and you can't make caeser dressing without them.
 
ponyo

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whm1974 said:
So how are smoked anchovies, anyone had them before?
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Anchovies are nothing more than small fish. It's similar to sardines. And like sardines, it varies in size.

Here's side dish of small dried seasoned anchovies with walnut, egg battered fried Spam, and seasoned fishcakes. I guarantee even non fish lover would like this seasoned anchovy dish if they tried it. It's sweet, salty, and savory all in one. Same thing with fried Spam. People think Spam is gross when they have no idea how to cook it.
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ponyo said:
Anchovies are nothing more than small fish. It's similar to sardines. And like sardines, it varies in size.

Here's side dish of small dried seasoned anchovies with walnut, egg battered fried Spam, and seasoned fishcakes. I guarantee even non fish lover would like this seasoned anchovy dish if they tried it. It's sweet, salty, and savory all in one. Same thing with fried Spam. People think Spam is gross when they have no idea how to cook it.
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I really need to find an Asian market where I can get dried anchovies without spending a whole lot of money on them. So how are they that way as a snack?
 
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