Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Round (2017)

Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by unwind on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:44AM (#21563269)

Meta: not being a native speaker, I stumbled a lot with "in the round" in this headline. Googling it was difficult, it seems to mean that this freezing is something that will happen on location, i.e. on the water, on board the fishing vessels?

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by pests on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:48AM (#21563293)

Native speaker and I too didn't know the phrase. It sounded like a method to prep salmon from the way it was worded. I found online:

"Whole/In The Round: Whole fish or fish “in the round” are being sold completely intact, exactly as they were caught."

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by Infernal on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:43AM (#21563854)

Interesting, thanks. As a native speaker my best guess was that it was some stage of processing, maybe sliced into round fish steaks of a sort or something.

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by iguy on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:01AM (#21564334)

Have never heard this phrase for fish, but guessing from elsewhere (sculpture?) thought it meant the whole fish, as opposed to fillets.

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by pests on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:36PM (#21567909)

Looks like sculpture and theater both use the phrase in similar ways.

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by wolfhumble on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:54AM (#21563573)

Only time I have heard that expression is in Michael Jackson's Billie Jean :-)

"Who will dance on the floor in the round"

According to https://www.shmoop.com/michael-jackson-billie-jean/lyrics.ht... "'In the round' is a phrase that identifies an architectural setup.

Usually applied to theaters, here the term establishes that seating surrounds the dance floor. When applied to theaters, the term means that audience seating surrounds the stage area.

The key idea here: Billie Jean is a star on the dance floor. All eyes are on her."

Maybe the phrase used in these two settings have nothing in common; but who knows? On location. On the stage. In the limelight. Fisheries and Michael Jackson. :-)

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by _wldu on Monday November 18, 2019 @06:16AM (#21563397)

In the fur trade, that means the animal's carcass. The buyer would have to skin it.

Also, I've never heard this phrase in any other context.

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by maxerickson on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:58AM (#21563329)

"salmon in the round" and "fish in the round" both give lots of helpful results, so apparently it is jargon.

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by Merrill on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:18AM (#21563700)

In this article, "in the round" appears to mean freezing the whole fish without removing the head and guts.

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Re:Processor Will Flash Freeze Bristol Bay Salmon in the Rou... by loco5niner on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:28PM (#21566176)

From http://marxfood.com/a-guide-to-fish-terminology/:

> Whole/In The Round: Whole fish or fish “in the round” are being sold completely intact, exactly as they were caught.

>Drawn/Gutted: Drawn fish are whole fish that have been gutted

>Headed & Gutted: Headed & gutted fish have had their viscera (guts) and head removed.

I'm native speaker who has never heard this particular jargon :-)

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