ELV note: The BEEG WEINER is @anonymous who correctly pegged this as the famed John Dory/San Pietro/San Pierre/kuparu fish known to be found in European and Australian/New Zealand waters. The specimen below gave its life for someone’s tasty meal at Milos — where the Greek word for it is the tongue-twisting Hristopsaro. Efxarsitou (a Greek thank you) to Chef Pericles Koskinas for the information and for overseeing (and cooking) such an astounding array of delicious things that swim. (BTW: at Milos they usually designate it as the San Pietro fish, recognizing the difficulty non-Greeks will have saying: her-IS-top-sa-ro.)
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On this most religious of days, ELV thinks it’s time for another round of Guess That Fish!
Can you guess the name (in three languages) of the above fish? In four?
Do you know why it has religious significance?
And just what did a certain religious-type person supposedly do with it?
Guess the answers and you will win ELV’s highest accolade: the coveted Almost As Knowledgeable As ELV Eating Award!
This kinda seems like spam. You spammed your own site, John.
OMG. No wonder they renamed the Patagonian Tooth-fish.
My crazy guess is the Barbounica fish. Typically called Roughet en Papilote in France, Triaglie al Cartoccio in Italy , or Barbounia sto Harti in Greece. I assume this pic is from your self proclaimed fav Greek restaurant Milos, which has been know to serve this Mediterranean fish. The Greek work for fish is IXOYE which is an acronym in Greek for Jesus Christ Son of God Savior which is where the connection of the Greek fish as a symbol for Jesus supposedly came from
ELV responds: LOL and wrong @Jfergs but good guess and thanks for the laugh @John!
Gefilte fish?
Also, the greek word for fish is ‘psari’, or at least thats what ive been told on good authority, like my 10 trips there, my entire family, my greek school teacher (shout out to Kiria Niki), yada yada….
1.) john dory, or st. peter’s fish in english, st. pierre in french, pesce san pietro in italian, and petersfisch in german.
2.) the only religious significance, that i can think of, that is associated with this fish stems from its connection to the man from whom it gets most of its names: st. peter, the patron saint of fishermen, no less.
3.) according to folklore: st. peter, while seated in a boat, supposedly reached into the water after having recited a prayer, and pulled a fish out of its depths bare-handed, leaving two dark blotches on either side of its outer flesh, which “marks” where he gripped the john dory between his thumb and forefinger.
Scorfano?
Branzino, also known as Spigola: Sea Bass
And the BEEG WEINER is….@anonymous! Who is obviously knowledgeable but wishes to remain so under a cloak of anonymity…a condition ELV is unfamiliar with.
Congrats to @anonymous! You have ELV’s respect and admiration (which are the only things he can afford to give you these days.)
Damn. I was going to guess “imitation crab”.