Yes.Is that still possible around Helsinki?
fishing in southern finland
Yes but is it any good?
Is it good? Japanese eat carp for example but it's not exactly considered a culinary delight elsewhere? Serious question please can you spare the sarcasm for once I'd appreciate it. I've never seen pike on a menu.EP wrote:In that case the president of Finland is utterly desperate. Traditionally fishermen bring him/her a pike for Christmas, and it is eaten as Christmas Pike at Christmas Eve dinner.
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But then again we must remember the Norwegians adamantly claim lutfisk is a culinary delight... and Swedes bring in a jar of surströmming... 
Of course as pike is probably the most-caught fish in Finland most people have had an encounter with it. Is "goodness" depends if you can make it proper. Usually people complain its dry and "woody"... well if you get one somebodys granddaddy let go, yeah they might be. And bad preparation on top. And its got a load of small bones, so eating it (especially as a kid) can be slightly challenging.
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Usually you can't get "ordinary food" in a restaurant. The fancy places serve undulating reindeer sphincters and some berries picked by naked virgins with seven herbs up their cooter. Instead of "food", which you make at home so of course why would anyone pay to eat something ordinary? So if you delve into some old-fashioned truckstop cafeteria especially teeming with workers then there might be a chance of getting "normal food". But the fish there would be fish fingers or whitefish or maybe even salmon as pike isn't a "commercial" fish.
Of course as pike is probably the most-caught fish in Finland most people have had an encounter with it. Is "goodness" depends if you can make it proper. Usually people complain its dry and "woody"... well if you get one somebodys granddaddy let go, yeah they might be. And bad preparation on top. And its got a load of small bones, so eating it (especially as a kid) can be slightly challenging.You need to go to über-classy placesI've never seen pike on a menu.
http://www.ravintolaopas.net/havis/inde ... ClassID=31
Usually you can't get "ordinary food" in a restaurant. The fancy places serve undulating reindeer sphincters and some berries picked by naked virgins with seven herbs up their cooter. Instead of "food", which you make at home so of course why would anyone pay to eat something ordinary? So if you delve into some old-fashioned truckstop cafeteria especially teeming with workers then there might be a chance of getting "normal food". But the fish there would be fish fingers or whitefish or maybe even salmon as pike isn't a "commercial" fish.
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Re: Yes but is it any good?
Pike is eatable and so is carp, which I understand Poles eat especially on Christmas. Our Polish members might have some good recipes.Aoife wrote:Is it good? Japanese eat carp for example but it's not exactly considered a culinary delight elsewhere? Serious question please can you spare the sarcasm for once I'd appreciate it. I've never seen pike on a menu.EP wrote:In that case the president of Finland is utterly desperate. Traditionally fishermen bring him/her a pike for Christmas, and it is eaten as Christmas Pike at Christmas Eve dinner.
Deep fried carp is also a Hungarian speciality especially around Easter time. Catching carp in Lake Balaton was the funnest thing ever. Sooooo many BIG fish.
Pike is eaten all over Europe. In France, they have a great dish called Quenelles de Brochet, sauce Nantua. Which is poached fishballs (made from pike flesh) in a sauce made from shrimps. Very good and no bones.
I agree with Hank though. On its own I don't like it much. It is not a fish I would chose to eat. Also they are predators, so by the time they get on your plate they are full of all the pesticides and insecticides that have come up through the food chain. OK to eat occasionally, but not too often.
Pike is eaten all over Europe. In France, they have a great dish called Quenelles de Brochet, sauce Nantua. Which is poached fishballs (made from pike flesh) in a sauce made from shrimps. Very good and no bones.
I agree with Hank though. On its own I don't like it much. It is not a fish I would chose to eat. Also they are predators, so by the time they get on your plate they are full of all the pesticides and insecticides that have come up through the food chain. OK to eat occasionally, but not too often.
