What specifically is it about fish that makes it smell so bad as a dish? When you eat fish and get some stuck in your teeth, a foul, raw taste permeates your mouth. What is that nasty flavour?
2006-12-26 02:43:43 · 5 answers · asked by meilin h 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Bistro is right...you must be eating some nasty old fish! Fresh fish doesn't stink, if it's freshwater it doesn't smell much of anything, and if it's saltwater, it smells like the sea.
What you are smelling in a less-than-fresh piece of fish is the fishmeat beginning to decay. The culprit is trimethylamine, or "TMA", which results from the contents of the fishes guts.
You should buy your fish somewhere else!
2006-12-26 03:15:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fresh fish should not have a smell to it, the smell ANY food comes out while cooking. Just like Broccoli or Cabbage...
2006-12-26 18:58:46 · answer #2 · answered by Roxie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nasty flavor of the fish comes from the dirty water. They also poo in the water, and they don't take showers to remove their smell. It's like their smell is their natural essences.
2006-12-26 11:47:26 · answer #3 · answered by John R 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
im not being funny, its all about the freshness. the fish you are eating is not of the upmost freshness. they begin to smell "fishy" before the are spoiled enough to render them inedible.
2006-12-26 10:55:42 · answer #4 · answered by Bistro 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pond slime, polution.
2006-12-26 11:34:03 · answer #5 · answered by zeroartmac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋