Anyone likes caviar?

[desant]

GREAT New Years food

The problem is i cant find any in England

The closest place is Holland - Schipol airport to be precise - Inisde the departure lounge to be even more precise

The problem i dont like flying so even if i come to holland i wont be able to enter the departure lounge... any other place in Holland i can buy it from??

Or maybe some Russian shop in London?

 

[geopolitical]

I only like vanilla caviar. . .

 

[tonto]

GREAT New Years food

i cant find any in England

seriously? just go to lidl
or try m&s

 

[whiterabbit9]

is it really that expensive ?

 

[ButteredIt]

my local grocery store here in the surrey area has it. perhaps you should ask around?

 

[whodair]

buttered crackers w caviar, hmmm. or crepes rolled w caviar filling

 

[ROJO145]

Yummy likes his caviar with Butter,Toast,Ham!!

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

Hit your local IKEA food store, there's plenty of kaviar there,

Swedes eat kaviar like no other people, tons of it. This is what Swedish kids put on their sandwiches instead of marmalade, nutella and peanut butter:

 

[Yummybud]

doesn't the best kaviar come from the caspian sea? russian/persian kaviar.

kaviar is ok the cheap stuff is gross.

 

[Yummybud]

I looked at wiki and caviar tradiationally refers to russian/persian(iranian) caviar from the caspian sea and not the cheaper immitations (Salmon etc).

"Traditionally the designation caviar is only used for sturgeon roe, namely from the wild sturgeon species from the Caspian Sea, in most cases from Russia or Iran (Beluga, Ossetra and Sevruga caviars). This caviar varieties, according to their quality (flavour, size, consistency and colour) can reach (February 2009) prices between 6,000€ and 12,000€ per kilo, and are associated with gourmet and Haute cuisine environments"

The word caviar entered English via Italian "caviale",[7] though it is ultimately derived from Persian خاویار, pronounced [xɒvjɒr], from khaya "egg" (from Middle Persian khayak "egg," from Old Iranian *qvyaka-, diminutive of *avya-, from PIE *owyo-/*oyyo- "egg") + dar "bearing." [7]

Some people[who?] also think it derives from the Persian word خاگ*آور (Xâg-âvar), meaning "the roe-generator"; others say chav-jar, which means "cake of power", a reference to the ancient Persian practice of eating caviar in stick form as a kind of elixir.[8]

In Persian, the word refers to both the sturgeon and its roe; in Russian, the word икра (ikra), "roe", is used. The Russian word malosol ("little salt") sometimes appears on caviar tins to show that the caviar is minimally salted; typically, caviar contains 4% to 8% salt, with the better-brand varieties generally being less salted.


damn 6-12K per kilo?

 

[Yummybud]

Hit your local IKEA food store, there's plenty of kaviar there,

Swedes eat kaviar like no other people, tons of it. This is what Swedish kids put on their sandwiches instead of marmalade, nutella and peanut butter:

according to wiki that's not real caviar, but the poor man's immitation caviar.

In Scandinavia, a significantly cheaper version of caviar, made from mashed and smoked cod roe (smörgåskaviar or sandwichkaviar), is sold in tubes as a sandwich filling. When sold outside Scandinavia, the product is referred to as creamed smoked roe or in French as Caviar de Lysekil, named after the Swedish coastal town of Lysekil from which this type of caviar may have originated.

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

It's a matter of taste Yummy,

Don't confuse "best" with "rarest", which tends to fetch the highest price.

Beluga kaviar from the Caspian sea is the world's most expensive kaviar I believe, because it's the rarest. It's not considered superior to other kaviars in the region though.

The Caspian sea region is the world's largest kaviar producer, so it's a reference point in that sense, kind of like France is the largest red wine producer and reference in the world.

It doesn't mean red wines from California, Australia or Chile are necessarily inferior in quality.

 

[Stoner4Life]

not too bad desant, you've gone from having no savings & barely £17 to last you
two weeks (Oct '09) to noshing on caviar, any champagne wishes to go with that?

so what's your secret in these tough times, starving stoners need to know.......

 

[SuperConductor]

You can get caviar in any city in the UK. I don't think this thread is about caviar though.