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Our friends went here the other day and brought back a bag of various seafood for us. When we peered into the bag, we didn't notice anything but when we took it out later that day, it stunk to high heaven. Now our fridge stinks. We re-wrapped it and put in the freezer until we could figure out what to do with it. The garbage men wouldn't take it and our friends might notice it (community trash receptacle).
This is the reason we don't shop at any outdoor markets---no refrigeration, no ice on any of the seafood/meat. Just lying out there on hot counters. After all, it's 85 to 90 at this time of year. I can't figure out why any non-local would buy unrefrigerated fish or meat or chicken as the locals do. Maybe their guts can take it, but we are repulsed. It may be "fresh off the boat" but how long was the boat out there (no ice on the boat, lol) and how long sitting on that hot counter?
I don't know what to tell our friends if they asked how we liked it. "Well, we froze it...." we can say honestly, lol.
Our friends went here the other day and brought back a bag of various seafood for us. When we peered into the bag, we didn't notice anything but when we took it out later that day, it stunk to high heaven. Now our fridge stinks. We re-wrapped it and put in the freezer until we could figure out what to do with it. The garbage men wouldn't take it and our friends might notice it (community trash receptacle).
This is the reason we don't shop at any outdoor markets---no refrigeration, no ice on any of the seafood/meat. Just lying out there on hot counters. After all, it's 85 to 90 at this time of year. I can't figure out why any non-local would buy unrefrigerated fish or meat or chicken as the locals do. Maybe their guts can take it, but we are repulsed. It may be "fresh off the boat" but how long was the boat out there (no ice on the boat, lol) and how long sitting on that hot counter?
I don't know what to tell our friends if they asked how we liked it. "Well, we froze it...." we can say honestly, lol.
Yes, fish needs to be taken care of very carefully (any meat really)... on the boat, en route to the market, at the market, and on the trip to your house... just like you say, if it's just sitting there for hours, not on ice, at any stage, it will be compromised... bacteria multiply rapidly in warmer temperatures
I don't know what to tell our friends if they asked how we liked it.
The truth.
And mention that you don't want them to get you any more.
Otherwise, this could become a regular thing!
It is obvious from that link that many people like to shop there, and more than likely without incident. Perhaps the problem is not with the market, but with how your friends handled the seafood before getting it to you.
The truth.
And mention that you don't want them to get you any more.
Otherwise, this could become a regular thing!
It is obvious from that link that many people like to shop there, and more than likely without incident. Perhaps the problem is not with the market, but with how your friends handled the seafood before getting it to you.
So are you saying YOU would buy at that place? Hot, full of flies....would any of you shop here?
We didn't ask them to get us anything, they just did it. I won't go to any outdoor market no matter what. Even if "right off the boat" -- how long was it on that unshaded, no-ice boat?
There's no Dumpsters here and our trash platform is used by us and them (nobody else here right now), so they'd notice/smell it sitting there waiting for the garbage men who come whenever they want with no schedule.
But yeah, our friends admitted they had no ice for their part of the hours-long journey to get home. What on earth were they thinking!
Yes, I would and often do when travelling in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, etc. That is what is available, and hundreds of millions of people do so often and are just fine. If I'm not catching it myself while there, that's what is available. I could choose to go hungry as an alternative.
But yeah, our friends admitted they had no ice for their part of the hours-long journey to get home. What on earth were they thinking!
indeed! They should have put any purchase in a cooler of ice immediately.
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