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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9730510, member: 36"]Bacalao, for those wondering, is dried salted codfish. Saltfish if you're Jamaican. You have to soak it in lots and lots of water to get enough salt out to make it edible. It got sent down to the Caribbean islands because it was a shelf-stable protein, or close enough, that would survive the climate before they had canning etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>But...fresh cod ... Not indoors...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9730510, member: 36"]Bacalao, for those wondering, is dried salted codfish. Saltfish if you're Jamaican. You have to soak it in lots and lots of water to get enough salt out to make it edible. It got sent down to the Caribbean islands because it was a shelf-stable protein, or close enough, that would survive the climate before they had canning etc. But...fresh cod ... Not indoors...[/QUOTE]
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