Addictive foods and misuse of the word "addiction"

[TylerDurden]

Freezing is really not a good idea for raw seafood as it seems that thawing deteriorates the nutrients in those foods at a faster rate.

Mussels at that price are dirt-cheap. The trouble is that I need to prise them open with a metal walnut-cracker to get at the flesh, so they take time to prepare.

Mussels tend to have a rather acidic, acquired taste. Raw oysters taste very, very  different and are easier to get used to. In both cases, drain off the saltwater as much as humanly possible, otherwise you will be ingesting far too much salt.

[LePatron7]

Freezing is really not a good idea for raw seafood as it seems that thawing deteriorates the nutrients in those foods at a faster rate.

Freezing also potentially damages various nutrients. As foods freeze the water (meats are general 70%+ water) in them expand damaging fats and proteins. I read it in the book "Advances in Food Research, vol. 26."

[Iguana]

I love sea bass, its just too damn expensive for me to afford, or else I would be addicted to it as well.

I learned today that sea bass is farmed here. A Google search confirmed the info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_in_Portugal#Aquaculture
Under the Plano Nacional des Pescas, an extensive programme for fish farming, in 1985 there were 31 State authorized fish farm sites mainly on the Sado estuary and in the Algarve according to Fish Farm.Inter., 12(4) (1985). Fishes mentioned as suitable include: European eel, shad, grey mullets, gilthead (Sparus aurata), sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), and flatfishes.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/t0798e/t0798e08.htm
Aquaculture
Until the mid-1980s, aquaculture production consisted of freshwater trout and bivalves bottom culture in tidal estuaries. However, marine aquaculture production showed an overall increase at the beginning of the 1990s, followed by a period of some fluctuation. Total production was 7 829 t in 2003, and consisted mainly of grooved carpet shell (Ruditapes decussatus) (3 007 t), mussels (280 t), oyster (425 t), seabream (1 429 t) and seabass (1 384 t) from marine units; and trout (333 t) from freshwater units.

[cherimoya_kid]

I think the sea bass I get is wild-caught.