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Vienna_Hokie
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Always reminded me of the big tilapia craze in the 90s

it became the best protein, sold everywhere, especially Costco. Then dirty jobs did a show about fish farms and you found out the reason it was so plentiful and cheap is that it was the fish they put in the last tank at the bottom of the hill below all the good fish in order to clean the water before it was discharged back into the river systems. And we all know what runs downhill. Wife began to refer to it as poo fish and it disappeared from our table pretty much overnight.
Posted: 01/23/2025 at 04:07 PM ET
(In response to this post by Happy Dog)

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"Plantation Turkey" sounds like code for mystery meat
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Turkey Pterodactyl was the term during my undergrad years.**
Tafkam Hokie • 01/23/25 04:10 PM ET
Along with it's cousin, Chicken Chernobyl**
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dolph • 01/23/25 10:24 AM ET
Wait, wait now.....it was "New England Style" scrod
Happy Dog • 01/23/25 02:03 PM ET
Always reminded me of the big tilapia craze in the 90s ◄
Vienna_Hokie • 01/23/25 04:07 PM ET
Coworker who lived in the Philippines and Hawaii calls tilapia "ditch fish"
Happy Dog • 01/23/25 04:44 PM ET
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Happy Dog • 01/23/25 02:04 PM ET
In '90, Dietrick had awesome omelets...
JoesterVT • 01/23/25 10:59 AM ET
There was fat and butter involved, what's not to like?**
Happy Dog • 01/23/25 02:05 PM ET
I remember the Roast Beef Au Geez. Had some green tint to it.**
Brown Water • 01/23/25 10:55 AM ET
what was that tint? i never understood that. was the meat made of oil?**
MrBayAreaHokie • 01/23/25 06:16 PM ET
in the late fifties too**
AZHokie59 • 01/23/25 03:32 PM ET
All the colors of the rainbow 🌈. Just like baboons at the circus.**
scoop76cs • 01/23/25 02:28 PM ET
Yep, like a metallic green
MAHokie69 • 01/23/25 11:13 AM ET
I remember steak with big veins in it**
`lag • 01/23/25 10:20 AM ET
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`lag • 01/23/25 11:08 AM ET
That wasn't veins...
EDGEMAN • 01/23/25 11:02 AM ET
oh great, not even just horse meat, it was "the losing horse" meat.
`lag • 01/23/25 11:09 AM ET
I never had an issue with food in Shultz in the early 80s. **
Tank • 01/23/25 10:03 AM ET
Eventually morphed into ‘70’s Turkey tetrazzini? **
Stork • 01/23/25 09:29 AM ET
I used to shovel down that turkey tet. Mmmm, Mmm**
Coach McGuirk • 01/23/25 11:04 AM ET
I thought it was turkey tetrachloride. That’s what ChemE majors told me**
Va AandM • 01/24/25 05:47 AM ET
80's too**
MAHokie69 • 01/23/25 10:14 AM ET
@ VT it was all about just how many glasses of chocolate milk can you drink**
astrohokie • 01/23/25 09:13 AM ET
lol, I was in heaven, my parents would never buy stuff like that...
`lag • 01/23/25 10:18 AM ET
Aww, it does a body good !**
astrohokie • 01/23/25 10:30 AM ET
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`lag • 01/23/25 10:19 AM ET