My recent post about a trip to a local fish market in Cornucopia, Wisconsin, to buy some burbot piqued readers’ curiosities about its taste and my experience eating this ugly looking fish for the first time. I’m here to say that I survived and that I’m no longer a Burbot Virgin!
The experience is memorialized in “The Fish Dish,” a podcast I co-host for work. We chose a Valentine’s Day theme for the show because Feburary is an important time in the burbot’s life cycle: a time for LOVE.
See photos and hear all about it at this Fish Dish link. And while you’re at it, get your sweetie a card with a big burbot on the front for that special day. Such smooth moves might not work on everyone, but you just never know . . . .
Marie's Meanderings 
That is a scary looking fish. Thanks for the image. The face reminds me of a catfish but uglier and dressed in camouflage. The fish podcast was fun to listen to. I laughed at the pelvis Elvis reference.
Burbot = a catfish in camo. Love it! Happy hearts day to you, Jo Nell.
Not sure that aquarium’s specimen is a poster boy for “happy!” What an unusual-looking fish
Yes, the poor burbot is rather dour, isn’t he? Not my first choice to grace the lobby of an aquarium. Maybe someone thought he was attention-grabbing?
Oh sure, he is that!
’tis the season for romance. Be a sucker for somebody. Happy Burbotine’s Day!