I LOVE seafood. Rather, I LOVE fish. Fish doesn't have to come from the sea, after all.

I don't eat fish much either.

Why?

Couple of reasons.

I've always been the only one in the family who could do fish every day. I always get shouted down when I want fish.

This means the only time I get to eat fish is when we go out to eat at a cafeteria style buffet place where fish is an iotion but not the only option.

This is doable, but hardly satiafsctory because, let's face it, those types of places do NOT typically cook fish well. You gotta go to a good fish place to get good fish. Otherwisez you're lucky if fried fish is an option at all.

It's expensive, too expensive for me to feed the family what they want and make me my fish.

It doesn't keep well to take to work for lunch if you don't have a refrigeration option and somebody's gonna make a stinky hullabaloo about the smell, as though some of their lunches are not also malodorous. 🙄

Back when I was married and living in Florida, Orange Roughy was readily available and decently priced so I tried to add it to the weekly rotation. Constant bitching and moaning from the man that it left him too hungry. It didn't last till the next mealtime. This after downing 2 lbs of fish cause they came in 3 lb packs. It's also not like fish was the only thing for dinner. I should have dotted it with spackling paste instead of butter before popping it in the oven.

Before the pandemic hit, I turned the finances over to my teenager for training financial literacy. She set the budget and I got an allowance. I was sick to death of pizza, so we agreed that once a week I'd use my allowance to go have a nice fish meal and she could have her friends and the house for a pizza party with her friends. Which was great. For both of us. However, nobody would cime to eat fish with me and always pushed either Mexican or Steak House, which defeated the purpose. That's okay, I went out alone which doesn't bother me, but I'm guessing it does a lot of other folks who might otherwise be eating more fish. I will say that when you eat alone as a woman, no matter how well often you frequent a place and how well you tip, you don't get the service you get when on a date or with a family. Usually.

Anyways, I suspect you'd find a fair number of people who would eat more fish if their peeps weren't so stubbornly entrenched against it. And also, you've got me suddenly hankering for a nice swordfish steak. That's kind of mean, you know. Jk.