On Jul 12, 4:42 am, Cyli wrote:
I was reading a cooking / recipe newsletter from Epicurious and ran
across a recipe calling for red trout. Huh? What the hell is a red
trout? Luckily the recipe gave the URL for the site that sells them.

Weird stuff. They call them ocean trout, though they're raised in a
fish farm in the Pisgah Forest out by where Opie lives. They show a
picture of a gorgeous lake that I think we're supposed to assume is
their growing area. And then we get to things like 'these salmon
trout' that sort of gnarled up my brain. They are careful not to give
a Latin or even common name to the 'salmon trout'. The pics show the
fillets as being a very bright deep red before they're smoked.
Afterward they look just like most smoked salmon (non lox kind) I've
seen in the grocery stores here.

Oh, yeah, and they are careful to mention that since 'you are what you
eat' that these trout are never fed meat of any kind. Huh? That's as
bad as the grocery store locally that's advertising vegetarian
chickens for sale. Do these people who sell them have no clue or do
they do this to sell them to people who have no clue?

After reading about how long they smoke them for, I'm not sure I'd
want to order from these folks even if I weren't annoyingly confused
by their advertising and wanted to eat a vegetarian animal that was
meant to be a meat eating one.

If any of you want to go look, the URL is: www.sunbursttrout.com
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The fish the guy is holding in the photo looks like a farm raised
rainbow. Maybe descended from steelhead stock, thus the "ocean trout"
and "salmon trout" references. Most hatchery fish aren't fed meat, but
compressed protein rich pellets. There are additives that can result
in the red color of the flesh. Years ago, in MA, I believe they used
Paprika, among other things to give the fish a more "natural" color to
both the skin and the flesh . NH uses something, ( I have no idea
what) that results in brookies, fresh from the hatchery, that look
very much like natives.