this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
765 points (97.5% liked)
Microblog Memes
5402 readers
2732 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
yfw that color actually comes from crustaceans they eat: π€―
Might as well call it crustacean pink instead. That name sounds much better than a word with a silent L.
It doesn't have to be silent
I pronounce it. Everyone keeps telling me it's wrong.
Become ungovernable
K
Yeah but then we sound like weβre talking about a fatwa victim
Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.
Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.
And mercury right?
Mercury is more highly concentrated in higher-level organisms in a similar fashion, yes.
But mercury itself has nothing to do with coloring.
This is also the source of a flamingo's colour. The debate if salmon are fishy flamingos or flamingos are feathery salmon has yet to be settled.
I thought Salmon were actually gray on the inside? Is this a farm raised versus wild thing?
Gray?? π€’ Even the farm raised should be a light pink before itβs cooked.
Whitish gray, like a lot of fish and bird meat. The pink comes from their natural diet, which they don't have in captivity, so farms dye the meat artificially so it looks like wild-caught salmon
If the color of the meat turns you off, wait until you think about the fact that it's a dead body
Just to add to this, the artificial colour is added to the fish's diet. They also adjust the colour depending on the market. For example, apparently Japan prefers a bright pink colour, while Italy and France prefer a less bright pink colour.
I havenβt ate fish or any meat since the Bush administration, lol.
What did George Bush do that turned you off eating fish?
He incorrectly believed that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
But peace was never an option. πͺπ
Farm-raised salmon are usually pink. Wild caught salmon are usually bright red.