Fish organs (offal)

[a_real_man]

Over the duration of the last few weeks, I have been eating fish organs.  I've had good experience eating Bass and Pompano liver and heart. The liver for both fish is big pink and sweet and the heart is red and bloody. However, I've had some bad experiences with other fish that I am trying to understand.

Bad experiences:
- milkfish organs: extremely bitter. So bitter that the bitter taste clings to the back of the throat from a mere taste.
- rock cod liver: bland taste and white in color, which I found odd. I ate a bit then stopped. A few hours later I vomitted, and I'm pretty sure it was the liver specifically that I vomitted. First time I've vomitted on RPD.

Any similar experiences? Thoughts on what went wrong during the bad times?

[TylerDurden]

For some strange reason, I still, after c.15 years of RPD, cannot stand raw fish organs, but have no issues with raw organ-meats from land-mammals. Sometimes, it can be just a question of individual tastes etc. For example, as a child, I used to occasionally steal and eat raw pigs' kidneys left in the kitchen , so that I easily got used to eating them when I switched to a RPD diet.

[ys]

milkfish is farmed.  stay away from it.

[goodsamaritan]

Wild ocean fish eggs I will usually eat... they usually taste great... I just dip in a bit of vinegar for cleanliness.

Wild ocean milk fish eggs tasted absolutely amazing... I only came across a wild ocean milk fish mother fish once.

If you are looking for wild ocean organs, better get it from clams and oysters... I do so on a regular basis.

[a_real_man]

I now realize another hypothesis is that the cod led to a detox... But who knows...