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They told us in school that the guts should come out immediately because as soon as the fish dies, the acids/enzymes/whatever in the guts start to eat away at and generally **** up the meat. So, most fish you buy even whole will already be gutted, at least around here. However, they will not be scaled. Though I recently bought a whole bass that was not gutted and I was somewhat surprised by that.
Interesting. Where I bought it, they were about to scale and gut it for me to take whole, as they would normally do, but I insisted they leave it untouched. Silly me, I know.
They aren't bad. I wouldn't go as far to say they are delicious. But maybe I've just never had properly prepared fish eyes.According to Solzhenitsyn, the eyes are delicious
There's an interesting story I read about a man lost at sea who subsisted on nothing but fish for the course of over a month. At first, he would only eat the raw flesh, but after a while his body started craving other parts of the fish, such as the liver, heart, and eyes. Mainly because eating only the flesh supplies one with a limited source of nutrition, and these other less desirable parts contain other essential ***** acids and nutrients one needs to survive. Eating the eyes, in this case, provided him with fresh water.or at least nutritious.