Nix McRetro
I know a lot of you enjoy reading this blog and I can’t help but blog utter rubbish. Today the topic is salmon, or rather trout and the similarities it shares with salmon. There’s been a lot of misinformation going around and I’d like to help stir that pot of chaos.
Salmon is just like trout shown above in its natural environment on a grassy knoll with its favourite fishing rod at fins reach. It’s called fishing for a reason. Just like humaning, or peopling.
Trout is just like salmon and can often be used in place of a rifle. While only 70% as effective as a rifle, it sure does look spectacular.
There is one real fact hiding underneath it. The diagram above is a historical illustration of mercury moving through the food chain, not a current eating guide. The mercury figures I quoted came from the FDA’s 1990-2012 monitoring table: fresh/frozen salmon had a median mercury concentration of 0.015 ppm, while freshwater trout had a median of 0.025 ppm. Those are medians across sampled fish, not universal mercury concentrations for every salmon and trout in existence. The corresponding means were 0.022 ppm for fresh/frozen salmon and 0.071 ppm for freshwater trout.
I still vote salmon. Mostly because it tastes better and appears to be more effective as a fictional rifle substitute.