Jonathan Stramaglia
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They thought at the time.
A guy in the West Coast went down there, saw this fish when he was doing some research.
And he's like, I think we got something here.
He tried it.
He's like, this is amazing.
He started calling it Chilean sea bass unofficially.
This is the 70s, 80s when the regulations aren't what they are today.
And people it starts catching on.
Right.
So it starts getting now the 80s now in the 90s.
Now, if you remember Jurassic Park, they're in the scene when T-Rex gets a lamb or a baby cow and then eats it.
And they're like, oh, my God, right in front of the first time you see T-Rex on camera.
Yeah.
Then they're like, oh, we're hungry.
Chef is going to prepare some chili and sea bass.
And then he mentions it again when they played it.
After that happens in 94, every restaurant wanted chili and sea bass because Jurassic Park at the time.
Right.
There was no bigger movie in the early mid 90s.
Yeah, they're still huge.