Chicken Express fish

[Oak Smoke]

It’s no secret I love good catfish or several other fresh water species. I’ve been going to Chicken Express for several years to get their catfish. I noticed not long that it now says fish on the website where I order it instead of catfish like it used to be listed. It turns out there’s a reason for that. They’ve switched to Vietnam raised Swai fish. In all the reports I can find no one encourages the eating of this fish. Pollution and bacterial contamination being high on the list but heavy metals are often mentioned. It makes me wonder how they can sell them here. This takes away one of my favorite nights of the week. My fish night is gone for now. I’ve got to get on the water and catch them for my self. Just a simple deletion of a word with no explanation changed everything. Good grief do we have to be so suspicious of our food that we watch every word? The next thing you know their chicken will be some toxic bird from Mexico.

[Jerod Broussard]

They probably loop under the Order Siluriformes, just like with "catfish" inspection.

[texastweeter]

Yeah, go catch you some channel cats, im always yorn by my favorite fish. Channel, crappie, or sandbass.

[Oak Smoke]

I’ll eat catfish, crappie, stripper, or especially walleye. Fried, blackened, grilled, and baked all make me happy! I was raised fishing and eating what we caught. We normally had at least 30 pounds of fish in the freezer all the time growing up.

[texastweeter]

Got about 15lbs in freezer right now of channel and a couple big flathead.

[bordercollie]

I have a cousin that farms catfish in se AR. He was Arkansas catfish farmer of the year a couple of years ago. Catfish raised right have a nice clean flavor.

[Oak Smoke]

Yes they do! I’ve eaten farm raised catfish in restaurants for years and like it.

[cruiseplanner1]

We catch them when fishing in Lake Huron. The guys will take and cube them then dredge in corn meal and deep fry. Couple like them better than walleyes. I have yet to try it

[Carolyn]

I hate when that happens. We had a restaurant in our little downtown that had another location as well. It wasn't doing well here and shutdown right after I decided to try it out. What did it have? Fried catfish.

[LA Pork Butt]

I would bet one of your local diners still serves catfish or maybe a different fast food place.

[RlsRls]

Wow.... I'm from Boston, What's "frozen" fish? Something caught while ice fishing?

[jayjordan]

Well that ends my family getting the fish at Chicken E. Thankfully we hardly ever get it anymore because we go to a local chain Flying Fish when we want seafood.

[smokenoob]

absolutely no foreign farmed fish for me except maybe a cold water fish if no wild caught available!

[smokenoob]

Johnny Booth Snook are like unicorns here 🤬

[dpearce]

Geez, what a bummer. I miss having fried channel cats. In some of the rivers around here, you could pull a few decent sized ones from time to time.

Years ago back in the early 1980's, my parents and I went up to Marblehead on Lake Erie, fished all night, caught a dozen nice big channel cats. Parked them in the freezer (provided by the motel we stayed at, one big chest freezer per room sitting outside on the sidewalk). Next morning, we woke up, thawed out a couple in the fridge, went to prepare them later that day, and they had an awful odor.

A fellow fisherman next door to us, said "yeah, these Erie cats are like that. We don't eat them. Go for perch or walleye instead."

At least we had fun catching them.

Edit: I should note, we had cleaned and de-skinned them before putting them in the freezer the night before! That was a lot of work in the middle of the night for nothing!

[Jfrosty27]

When I was young, my grandparents on my mom's side owned a bait shop on a lake right on the Wisconsin/Upper Peninsula boarder. Mom would take us up there to stay for most of each summer. Perch, walleye, bluegill, and bass were caught and cooked almost daily. Man that was good eating. Great times too. . I still love it all but now nearly all of it is frozen and cooked right out of the bag here in the Milwaukee area. Just not the same.

[Mike981]

I live a few blocks from the Mississippi and I could fish from shore, BUT! We have a pollution problem, and I'm not talking about the normal farm/urban runoff.

It's PFAS and they are still trying to get a handle on how infected the fish are. It really sucks, such a great area and you have to worry about what you eat and this is a 150 miles from the start of the Mississippi. I can't imagine the water quality around Louisiana.

[Purc]

Sad but true because these forever chemicals and nano plastics are now being found
everywhere: water, soil, food, etc and in our blood. Read about DuPont and 3M and their stain release and fluorocarbon chemistries released into the water for years in the carpet industry among other industries. Same with non stick/ stain proof coatings, rain proof coatings, heavy metal dyes and pigments, etc. Sludge from waste treatment plants sprayed as fertilizer on farm land for years.

[Purc]

These studies about candy, baby formula and now bread just released by the Florida Department of Health about toxins found in these branded food products.

Healthy Florida First | Building a Healthier Florida

Want to know what's in your tap water that you are drinking?

EWG Tap Water Database

Don't even ask about the 60+ additives allowed by the FDA for wine production.

[jfmorris]

I've been hearing that lots of cheap mported catfish has been impacting the US farm raised catfish industry. Unless the menu specifies US farm raised catfish, I would worry it was some sketchy catfish from Asia. Higher feed costs have also caused a major impact.