In the Great Lakes region, Large and Small Mouth Bass are a game fish. I honestly have never seen either of these species on a restaurant menu.
Sando is even worse.
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The term always seems to be a self proclamation which makes it even worse. Like stating that you are an artist. Just tell me what you are eating and Iâll decide if you are a âfoodieâ or not.
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So true!
I always proclaim myself as a foody. Itâs a word thatâs readily understood by folk. Not always totally accurately understood but near enough.
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Ditto on sammie, which seems to be more a Jersey thing.
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Agreed, but Iâll give the phrase âHam Sammieâ a pass because it rhymes.
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I eventually resigned myself to it as the best single word description among a host of much worse options (not by any means excluding âchowhoundâ<snicker>), usually adding âmore or lessâ and a mild eyeroll or shrug to minimize the cutesy factor. If it werenât for its frequent association with being a âtrendsterâ, Iâd probably have welcomed it as being more representative of my actual food-related interests than the earlier options like âgourmet/gourmandâ or âbeing interested in âgourmet cookingââ etc. (Outside of academia, nothing produces a glazed look on a listenerâs face faster than reeling off a list of the âacademicâ aspects of producing, cooking, and eating food that are whatâve always been the main draw for meâŚ
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Yum. Yummy. Unless you are under age 10.
Delish
âTo die forâ
Sammie
Orgasmic
Gorgeous. Even if you are British.
Foodie - please.
Awesome. Even if you are American.
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In addition to many of the terms already listed (most especially the babytalk ones like ânom nomâ and âsammyâ), I canât stand stupid lazy rhymes like âcreamiest, dreamiestâ or âcrunchy, munchyâ or âsweet treat.â Food52 is a serial offender, and theyâre also on my shitlist for never mentioning dill without also calling it âfeathery.â Is there another kind of dill? Furry dill? Scaly dill?
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I release all bass too. Iâm just amazed perch fetch so much money there.
That, I canât explain. Might be that any great eating fish is pricey.
Thatâs good to a point. Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists, some of the best around, say itâs good to take some slot fish to keep predation of the forage fish at an acceptable level, reducing stunting of game and forage fish.
Twenty years or so ago I fished my Uncleâs small pond, think 75x100 yards, but an amazing fishery. Five minutes after I got there I caught a 3 pound bass and I offered to throw it back but my 80 year old Uncle insisted I keep it so I did and three more like it.
Nothing was ever thrown back, everything was eaten. It wasnât heavily fished, but I fished since I was a kid and am convinced harvesting bass, such at the 7 pounder my Father caught on a Creepy Crawler, an 8 pound channel cat another Uncle caught, crappie and large sunfish, made it special.
Iâm a saltwater guy and not much of a bass fisherman but I wanted to fish the pond.
For the record guys the fish were caught on a 1/2 oz. red Rat-L-Trap.
I got a tip from an outdoors radio show that bass liked to feed on crawfish in the spring and that was the lure of choice. My uncle was throwing a plastic worm and couldnât believe it when I pulled that thing out and even more amazed when I reeled in a bass on the first cast.
The moral is donât feel afraid to keep a few for dinner.
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fetid, rancid, decomposed ⌠
⌠durian, vegan, mechanically separated âŚ
I worked with a woman who said this. Iâd cringe every time. It is such a ridiculous word.
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To differentiate it from the fish âhand selectedâ from the washed up seaweed along the shoreline?
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The mental picture that comment prompted in me, almost made me spit up my Martini! 
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artificially flavored
