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trønderen3-Dec-21 5:16
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NewsScientists made a plastic mug out of salmon sperm Pin
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trønderen3-Dec-21 4:48
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Eggs (roe is eggs, not yet fertilized) and sperm - they are just female and male sex cells. Do you eat only the female part, not the male part? Or neither? Or do you eat eggs from hens, but not from fish (i.e. roe)?

You may not know: If you catch a cod (or for that sake, any fish) when it is ready to spawn, and cut it open: In a female fish, you will find the eggs in a long sack of thin skin, packed with a hundred thousand small egg cells, not yet fermented - the roe. In a male fish, you will find a similar long sack, usually significantly smaller than the roe sack of the female, filled with sperm cells - for a large cod, it is roughly the size of a sardine or small hering. They are equivalent halves for the breeding process of the fish, but of course: Since the female sex cell is packed with a 'lunch bag' for the fish embryo to feed on until it has grown enough to start catching its own food, each individual female sex cell is larger than that of the male. But, like with humans, the number of male sex cells is far greater than the number of female ones.

I am used to eating roe either boiled or fried, but "melke" (I never found the English translation for it) I have only eaten fried. I am not that surprised that this food is unknown in many parts of the world. For smaller fish, even if you could identify the "melke", it is usually too small to deserve preparation as food. It is limited to large (several kilograms) codfish and other fish of comparable size.

A friend of mine, when he serves either cod roe or eggs, does it with the remark: "Would you care to devour the unborn life?" He's got a somewhat special kind of humor.
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