A fish inside my fish.

Platinum Member Joined: May 13 2007 Posts: 8153

Yesterday I bought a Rockfish from the shop. I was running late to take my DH to a bus so I bought the fish without them gutting it.

Today, I gutted my fish and found another fish inside it (presumably my fishy's last meal). Is that fish edible? If so, do I need to be concerned about kashrus? I think I see a scale or two still attached (I can get my step-father who used to work in a fish shop for me to confirm it for me, but the ins are basically gone except for a little thing sticking out of the bottom.

Has anyone ever had this before? What did you do?

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 10 2006 Posts: 6570

You are a tzedekes.

I'm on lots of calcium ascorbate fending off a sinus and ear infection. AS a result, my stomach is not right. ANd this year, I could not handle fish heads...much less gutting a fish. I wouldn't touch them. I made DH get them ready and put them in the pan, and I poured/shook whatnot onto them, coverd them, and baked them...I'm feeling icky again...

Interesting though.
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Someone just PM'd me that a fish inside a fish is a segula for children. If anyone in Baltimore would like some of it you can PM me.

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wow. hmm...

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that is really interesting!

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Particularly on Erev Rosh Hashana

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 28 2005 Posts: 4696

Wow, Atali, that is amazing mazal!

Now, the research project is to find a source for this segula!

[Although it makes sense - fish inside fish is like a pregnant woman; fish in general multiply fast...especially R"H when we eat simanim that symbolize brachos]

Silver Member Joined: May 04 2009 Posts: 531

im impressed that you gutted the fish, found another dead fish inside and can think of eating the inner fish let alone any fish period!

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Update on the fish:

I have broken the fish up into little pieces and it is in my freezer. Anyone who wants can PM me and pick up a piece today or after Rosh Hashana (in Baltimore) or on Erev Yom Kippur in Crown Heights.

Ksiva V'chasima Tova everyone

Posted: Sun, Sep 20 2009, 1:50 pm Post subject: re: A fish inside my fish.

Atali you are truly a zadekes to make such a fish and to gut it and offer it as a segula.
May it be a good year for you and klal yisroel!
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Posted: Sun, Sep 20 2009, 3:31 pm Post subject: re: A fish inside my fish.

I was not up to cooking fish heads so I had an idea that went over quite well.

I made a tuna mousse, and set it in a square pan. Then I drew a picture of a fish on a piece of paper, and used it as a form to cut the mousse. I decorated my "fish" with cucumber circles for scales, an olive eye and a red pepper mouth.

It was a conversation piece.

Gmar Hatima Tova

Posted: Sun, Sep 20 2009, 5:12 pm Post subject: re: A fish inside my fish.

My husband (who has been fishing since age 2) says not the eat the inner fish; something about the digestive juices makes it not healthy to eat.
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Posted: Mon, Sep 21 2009, 1:28 am Post subject: Re: re: A fish inside my fish.

Posted: Mon, Sep 21 2009, 1:36 am Post subject: re: A fish inside my fish.

Veyidgu larov bekerev haaretz...
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Posted: Mon, Sep 21 2009, 2:04 am Post subject: re: A fish inside my fish.

My motto is when in doubt, google it. So I did. I didn't find anything about eating a fish found inside a fish, but I did find this:

A businessman who lost his mobile phone on a beach was amazed when it turned up - in the belly of a giant cod.

Andrew Cheatle thought it had been swept out to sea after it slipped from his pocket.

But a week later his girlfriend's mobile rang and it was fisherman Glen Kerley saying he'd found the phone in a 25lb fish, reports The Sun.

Andrew got the handset back, dried it out - and amazingly it still works.

Andrew, 45, said: "I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell. I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days."

He was shopping for a new phone with girlfriend Rita Smith, 33, when her mobile went off.

She told him: "Your old mobile number is calling my phone."

Andrew continued: "She said some guy was going on about my phone and a cod so she handed it over to me and he told me where he had found it.

"I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it - a bit worse for wear."

Glen, of Worthing, West Sussex, said: "Cod are greedy fish - they'll eat anything. They have big heads and big mouths.

"I've found plastic cups, stones, teaspoons, batteries and I've also heard of someone finding false teeth in one.

"It was a bit smelly but I was glad to return it."

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Atali are you sure the segula is to eat it?
I've never heard of it but it seems more likely the segula would be having had found it in which case it's your segula even if you have kids already.

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