While shopping for groceries, I happened to come upon the
frozen meat section of the grocery store and I noticed a package of whole frozen
Tilapia. I then saw that the price was $12 for two medium size fish in the
pack! Twelve bucks! You might think, “That sounds just about right.” But I
remember a couple of years ago when the same fish was being sold at about $2-$3
for the pack. A whole heck of a lot cheaper than it is being sold today!
Thinking about it some more, I also remembered that when I
was a kid, there was kind of a stigma about eating Tilapia. It wasn’t eaten as
commonly as it is today. Not too many people really ate Tilapia because at one time
was considered dirty or a kind of “rubbish fish” that was found in all
reservoirs, ditches, canals, rivers and streams here in Hawaii, especially the
stagnant ones where they thrived.
