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Kristen Slater @kristenslater.bsky.social

Sorry to be that pedant who ruins everything, but you do need to give us a reasonable chance of working it out. The one before this can't give the answer quoted above because a beluga's not a fish, it's a mammal. Sorry sorry, I'll show myself out.

aug 23, 2025, 8:04 am • 1 0

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Tom Gidden @gid.cx

Ackshully… The "Beluga" is a type of fish, whereas the mammal is the "Beluga whale". Otherwise, Beluga caviar would be even more rare. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_...

aug 31, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kristen Slater @kristenslater.bsky.social

TIL!!! Thank you for enlightening me 😃😃 (I'm obviously dead common, because I didn't know about the caviar either.)

aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tom Gidden @gid.cx

Honestly I knew this would cause complaints. Chose it anyway. :D What should really get you is that the “sardine” isn’t a fish, or at least not really a specific type of fish!

aug 31, 2025, 9:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kristen Slater @kristenslater.bsky.social

Oooh, I know this one because I grew up in a small fishing village in Cornwall. They're small pilchards (& pilchards are large sardines!) At one point Mum worked in a museum about the pilchard fishery.

aug 31, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view