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Wow American poor still very picky.

armchair_warrior
armchair_warrior
edited November -1 in Brooklyn Politics

Hell I'd eat anything that was free when I was a kid and poor.

I can't believe this guy wouldn't eat a delicious fish. I suspect it has to do with the name, change it to something like American seabass like how it did wonders with Chilean seabass.

Besides the name change, come on you're unemployed, maybe this is the reason you're unemployed?

“I wouldn’t eat it,” Vincent Williams, 49, an unemployed former bank worker, said with a look of disgust on his face.

The idea is modeled after a state program that lets hunters donate deer meat to be ground and distributed to food pantries. But there’s no system in place for netting Asian carp in large amounts and cleaning and distributing the fish. And state officials don’t know the most feasible way to dole out the carp: minced or as boneless fillets, for example.

While eating Asian carp isn’t new — it’s consumed in China and high-end restaurants, among other places — the first step to get it to the American masses is countering the yuck factor.

Illinois officials appear to have their work cut out for them; recent visitors to Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry in Chicago were skeptical. The pantry puts canned goods, meat and bread in the plastic food bags it gives out. If carp were to make its way there, workers would include it with the meat, leaving people to figure out how to cook the fish on their own.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/52626901-68/carp-fish-asian-illinois.html.csp?page=2