It Only Hurts When I Blog

Greetings, Bloggy Package-Readers!

It’s a dark and Bloggy Monday! Pop Quiz - raise your hand if you're alive this morning. I am!

Let’s just talk about FOOD again, surprise surprise. Food Labeling, that is.

I got brave and took a chance last night, opening and cooking some fish I had bought frozen about a month ago.

I love fish – I prefer to buy it fresh or to freeze it myself from fresh, but I have had pretty good luck with frozen as well.

However, I almost brought this fish back to the store when I read the ingredients on the back of the box (I am sure you've read my photo above). Evidently this fish is ‘treated’ somehow with CARBON MONOXIDE to keep it’s color. What a horrible thought! If I had read that label AT the store I wouldn't have bought it at all.

The THOUGHT of it was bad, but the fish was delicious and I liked that each filet was individually wrapped inside the box. It really was just fine. But I confess, I was scared of the label, and researched and read a little bit about that carbon-monoxide business on the web as well.

The practice of using gas to preserve color in fish is banned in some places (including Canada), because it can make non-fresh fish LOOK fresh. Well, common sense tells me that my sense of smell and the texture of the fish will alert me to whether or not it’s any good. I didn’t worry after I had done the ‘sniff test’ on it. (Good schnoz-work, Karen!)

I've got a very busy next-few-days-at-work-before-my-vacation, but tonight Charlie and I (and another couple) are going out for dinner to Cracker Barrel, like we've been doing for several weeks now. I like Monday night!

So that's my Monday Blog - be safe and read those labels! TTFN!