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Then too there is a question of aesthetics: the American taste may be broadening, but many people still recoil from an unattractive name. So a vocabulary of euphemisms for Cinderella trash fish surfaces. Dogfish becomes grayfish or salmon shark. For opakapaka, try Hawaiian pink snapper. Blowfish are sold as sea robin or sea squab. The huge, shapeless monkfish fetches a , higher price under its French name, lotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Just Name Your Poisson | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...leave a welcome and lasting legacy on U.S. shores. Largely as a result of the book and the film, shark meat is slowly but steadily finding a place on the dinner table. The toothsome steaks still are often sold to the unsuspecting under such fishy pseudonyms as "steakfish," "grayfish" and "whitefish"; the idea of dining on shark has traditionally been about as attractive to many Americans as eating fried tarantula or sting ray in aspic. But enterprising fish dealers and restaurateurs have found that they can overcome this revulsion by getting people to put shark to the taste test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Shark | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock salmon" or "grayfish." Ground-up shark carcass makes good poultry feed or fertilizer. Chinese snap up shark fins for making soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birth in a Bat House | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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