Conundrum

[wakina]

Wakina, what I mean by this is.. I get so many comments from people (Did you save the Cheeks) I would think that there is money to be made by cutting them out. If some people want them then they have to pay to get them.. Boy if I worked for a cleaning place I could see me having a freezer full of nothing bu walleye cheeks.. lol

From what I have seen they put them in a dumpster and they are picked up daily or every other day with the cheeks still on the carcass. That is not to say that they don't save some of them but allot of those who clean fish for a living don't like to eat fish! I can understand that part of it as most cleaning facilities have an smell that does not induce ones appetite for the source of that smell. I save them for me, my wife does not like them only because they have a different texture than the fillets. I cannot tell you why as she only uses that as the reason she does not like them, so I go with the old saying Happy Wife Happy Life an I do not push the subject!