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Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:12 am
by rodrell
...Petri. I believe it must be Finnish ( well, northern nonetheless ) . Delicious in red sauce. it's taste was kind o'sweet. Any connections there? Also what does petri mean, and what kind of fish is it ( It's certainly not tuna )?

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:57 am
by petri
Really? Was it any good? :)
I've only heard of Petri dish before.

"Petri" is the Finnish version of "Peter", so friends call me "Pete".

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:12 pm
by rodrell
It was delicious ! Really. :) Any idea what kind of fish it was? Because the can was written all over in foreign letter words ( I believe they were Finnish but I don't have the empty can to confirm it with you ).

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:18 pm
by Sol_HSA
rodrell wrote:It was delicious ! Really. :) Any idea what kind of fish it was? Because the can was written all over in foreign letter words ( I believe they were Finnish but I don't have the empty can to confirm it with you ).
Finnish is written with the "western" alphabet plus three umlauts: åäö. If the text was in cyrillic letters, it was probably Russian. =)

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:30 pm
by rodrell
Then it was Finnish..

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:37 pm
by Sol_HSA
rodrell wrote:Then it was Finnish..
Can you google up a picture or something? I can't find anything relevant.

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:42 pm
by rodrell
Image

It was the only pic I found, and quite small, too, if I might add..

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:48 pm
by Sol_HSA
Apparently 'petri' is a LIDL brand.. and I think that's danish or something, as it has the slashed O character (no idea what's that called).

So to rephrase: there's no fish called 'petri', it's just a grocery store chain label. The fish you ate was probably herring or kipper or something. =)

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:52 pm
by rodrell
:) ;)

Re: Yesterday I ate a canned fish named...

Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:47 pm
by Darklord
Maybe it was a Red Herring? ;)

Quick while no one is looking grab a copy of Legend of Grimrock and RUN! :lol:

Daniel.