Ah, halibut! The Slappers’ Favourite.
No, dear wee Bee, you know very well to what I allude.
Gxx
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Surely it’s up to them what they call it?
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Oy! Don’t go wasting my beer like that.
[grinnity]
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Halibut is almost always worthwhile, imo. I always thought turbot even more so, but I haven’t seen it anywhere for years - decades, possibly. Has it all gone, I wonder?
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He is indeed a Very Bad Man, that joe.
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The best sort!
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It’s still around, TFM
Morrisons is the only shop selling wet fish around here, these days
Sigh
Carinthia.xx
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I must search harder.
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Unless you have access to good fresh fish, I suspect that it gets sold to restaurants.
When Ancient Aunt & Uncle lived in New Romney, we would drive to a couple of modest looking shacks, & pick up what the 2 main fishing families had caught that day. Fabulous
Continuing the theme, dinner was salmon fillets & broccoli
Finally!
Carinthia.xx
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Plenty of that here, as you’d expect on an island where nowhere is more than 7 miles from the sea. Never seen it for sale though, and I guess I just don’t go to posh enough restaurants.
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Me neither!
I think that the last one I saw was on Masterchef…
Carinthia.xx
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Just herring & potato, then ;- )
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Yeah. He went out in the quarter-finals, though.
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I just googled, and discover it is mostly caught in the North Sea, so I guess soo stands a much better chance of buying it than I do.
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One tries to do one’s worst… 
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Maybe Soo could Fling you some Fletàn. It would have to cross the Pennines, but a suitably sized trebuchet would do the trick. I’m sure Hedge Sparrow could advise.
(I’m now confused as to whether fletàn is halibut or turbot, because I see that the fishing dispute between Spain and Canada is known as the Turbot War in English and Guerra del Fletàn in Spanish.)
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No, fletàn is definitely halibut. Turbot is something weird and horse-sounding iirc
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Pay no heed to what we call anything, Janie I shall ask the Fishwives from whence the halibut was fished, next time I’m at the FQ. We ate ours with potatoes fried with anchovies, Kalamata olives, garlic and cherry tomatoes and steamed broccoli and asparagus. Don’t know from whence came the asparagus 
Soo xx
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Kalamata Olives
Swoon
Thud
Carinthia.xx
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Honestly, that warm potato salad is totally yummy, Carinthia, and the Kalamata olives ace it. Not my own recipe, mind.
Soo xx
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