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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: experiences with fish in Hawaii
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 16:28:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 16:28:39 1985
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> > mahi mahi is a delicate fish, and native to the warmer waters. Anything you
> > might find in the mainland has to be frozen or iced and flown from hawaii,
> > and it doesn't travel that well. sigh. One of the better fishes in the
> > world (trivia-- for interesting references to mahi mahi (also known as the
> > dolphin, as opposed to a porpoise) read Kon Tiki...).
> > 
> Somehow the consumption of the flesh of an animal with the intelligence
> level of the dolphin borders on cannibalism in my mind.  Surely the
> palate can make a few sacrifices!!

Undoubtedly the dolphin to which you refer is intelligent enough to realize
that the mahi-mahi is a fish (despite the colloquial "dolphin" which it
is sometimes called) and not particularly bright at all.

					Jeff Winslow