The eyes of the red sea bream are so far forward they almost seem to protrude beyond the front of the face and they are also big, leading to many of the names of this fish. A black spot is seen on the shoulder and the back is usually greyish with red lights and fins are red.
A medium-sized eating apple with good qualities and yellowish-green skin almost entirely flushed with bright red. It was raised by the prolific Dr F Alston at East Malling Research Station in Kent as an Exeter Cross cross and introduced commercially in 1986. This early-season apple is harvested from late August in South-East England and has poor storage properties.
A name for a Bloody Mary. The cocktail consists of vodka, tomato juice, a little lemon and Worcestershire sauce, with added Tabasco, salt and pepper, sometimes celery salt, for those who like them. A Virgin Mary is all the above but without the vodka.
Red snapper. A reef fish found along the eastern coast of North America and in the Gulf of Mexico. It has rosy skin, red eyes and lean, flaky, pink flesh which whitens as it cooks. It has a good, sweet flavour. In July 2004 it was reported (Nature, Vol 430, p 309) that most red snappers sold in the United States are not red snappers at all. Peter Marko of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analysed DNA from a selection of fillets in eight US states and found that 25% were not red snapper but the related (and inferior) species of vermilion, lane and crimson snapper. Worse, 50% were unidentifiable or came from foreign oceans. Like many good fish, the red snapper has become rare and it came under strict management in 1996 to reduce exploitation.
A name for the saddletail seaperch (not a snapper at all), a striking red fish with no stripes or spots caught in the tropical waters of northern Australia over reefs and soft bottoms. Is usually found at around 70 cm (28") in size, though the ones in the picture are smaller and provides well-flavoured, flaky meat. It is sometimes sold as red emperor.
