Hawaiian240

Yeah, das why we use to call'm rubbish fish!!

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kawika219

cheeeeeee heeeeeeeee i see da pidgin coming outta the hawaii boys

speedgod^s13

Don't tell the Filipino peeps that. They love that fish!!

1ZlowZ

Whats wrong with the fish?

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Tilapia in Hawaii is not the same as the farm raised Tilapia you would find in a market in like California

Farm raised Tilapia is all good, but I remember the first time I was in a Mexican supermarket in Socal and I saw the sign at the fish counter that said "Fresh Tilapia"...I was like WTF cause I always knew Tilapia as the rubbish fish (on a side note, I realized that no one in America says "rubbish" and people look at you funny when you say it, cause its like British English...but I digress...)

"Tilapias are predators, scavengers, and herbivores. They eat algae, plants, and sometimes o'opu, Hawaii's endemic fish.

Tilapia was introduced to Hawaii to eat up our aquatic weeds in reservoirs, ditches, and canals. Instead, the Tilapia grew in such large numbers that instead of eating our aquatic weeds, they started to eat our local fishes."

- Taken from http://library.thinkquest.org/J01100...ia/tilapia.htm

Essentially Hawaii streams are mostly heavily polluted, you can get stuff like leptospirosis and other skin type diseases

So eating a Tilapia out of a stream in Hawaii isn't so hot

Thus Tilapia gets a pretty bad rep amongst Hawaii people, although when I was growing up I knew some people would still eat it

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Modrified

fried tilapia is the shyt. just gotta get them somewhere clean. in hawaii thats hard to find. haha.

ronmcdon

can't be any worse than balut, lol.

wait, so is fresh water tilapia in general considered rubbish b/c it's a scavenger fish, or is this just limited to tilapia swimming in polluted waters?
arn't most non-farm raised shellfish and catfish also scavengers? by that reasoning, we should avoid that as well?

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Tilapia swimming in Hawaii's polluted streams = not a good idea to eat

Farm raised tilapia sold in your local supermarket = fine to eat

Long story short, people in Hawaii are used to the idea that Tilapia is a "dirty" fish for eating

Easy and fun to catch though

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Hawaiian240

Balut isn't that bad!!

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alkemyst

I was going to say that's about MSRP and you can 'probably' still get that size.

Being that they were not used/mounted he is probably having either buyer's remorse, didn't fit or spent more than he could afford.

Since it's CL, he is trying to ward off the 100+ people from the states asking if he can do $400 shipped to New York or worse Canada

Not many people are price saavy out there. He may have got raped on the buy and just not know.

That said...a seller should never get offended with any offer unless the buyer is adding stupid stuff like "Hey I am really trying to help you here, these wheels are being sold for $500 new right now at my buddy's shop. If you can do them for $475 shipped I will paypal you tonight...just don't tell my buddy."

I used to make a living buying and selling network equipment. I was surprised many times by someone accepting my low offer and occasionally even getting bonus items.

As a seller you set your price. If you get it be happy...if you find out later you set it too low, don't sweat it as you got your price.

You win some, you lose some.

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