Jungle food!

[Waldo]

Just got back from Peru. Finally got into the jungle. I'm sure everyone is aware of how they eat fish we keep in our tanks. I wanted to point out the tigrinus on the right was over a foot long! This was in a town called "La Merced" The people were selling it for $. 15 (Soles) or about $5 USD. The Pleco's, and I'm going to guess thats a pangaseus on the left I forgot how much they were charging. All of these fish are served as a typical native dish (now they are often deepfried) with plantanes (a diferent kind of banana) smashed in with wild boar meat. I tried the plantanes with boar meat which wasn't bad but am saving the tig and plecs for later.

 

[wetsocks]

that "tigrinus" on the right looks more like a tigershovelnose!

yeah, i know! last time i saw a bunch of guys selling silver arowana over 30" long with their heads chopped off!!!!

 

[Waldo]

yeah.. My bad. It's been so long I misidentified it but your right it's a TSN. I also mispelled pangasius.

 

[LBathory]

doesn't look too good lol. id rather have it as a pet.

 

[Waldo]

I had that very same thought. The day before we went to the resteraunt and they had pictures of all the dishes next to the prices. I shared a dish with my wife called Bisteak looks and sounds a lot more like Beef Steak. She's Peruvian so this is all normal for her. After dinner we were sitting near the car when this girl came up eating what to me looked like KFC. I asked her name and how old she was and my wife asked what she was eating. I had totally spaced about it until the next day when she said "remember what that little girl was eating" this was it. There were also some Piranha or Myleus next to this table. I couldn't ID them they were probably on the table for a few day and had been picked at so badly I didn't even bother taking a picture.

 

[xiahaolong168]

I don't think i'd be able to eat a pleco...seeing that even aggressive fish wouldn't.

 

[polish]

With all the specials I've watched on TV this is nothing, I've seen some real beauties cut up for food down there. It's just life there, just like us eating some of the "cool" native fish we have.

Down there Northern Pike, Muskie, Walleye, and so on are probably thought of as special but here they aren't. Just like the RTC, TSN, Tigs, etc are special to us but food to them.

 

[necrocanis]

I don't think it's pangasius if it's from SA. They are typically from asia, unless they have a breeding program in SA, kind of reverse of asia where they farm SA fish for food.

 

[famous323]

deep fried pleco man i want to barf at the thought of that

 

[LBathory]

deep fried pleco man i want to barf at the thought of that

agreed. think of what alot of species eat primarily, wood and decomposing vegitation