Monday 1 August 2022 11:09 PM Almost half of us fail to recognise fancy fish dishes on restaurant menus, ... trends now
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We eat it cooked or raw, wrapped in batter or smothered in the most delicately complex of sauces.
But if you’re one of the 87 per cent of Britons who love consuming it, you may be surprised to learn that we don’t know all that much about fish.
It seems that many of us are often left baffled by the descriptions on restaurant menus and don’t know our gravadlax from our gambas.
(For those not in know, gravadlax is cured salmon with dill while gambas are Spanish prawns cooked in garlic.)
45 per cent could not describe gravadlax (left) which is cured salmon with dill and 44 per cent could not say what gambas (right) is - they are Spanish prawns cooked in garlic
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