Chum lox doesn't sound so good does it? OK, here's my question and story. I was out fishing this weekend and got a big chummer. I decided to bring it home to show the kids and also now figured it was a good excuse to get that smoker that I always wanted rather than borrow my buddies yet again. As I proclaim to the household that I brought home a fish I was confronted with the words, "what are you going to do with it?" from the wife. I explain my plans to get a smoker. She explains that as long as we are now temporarily living in an apartment that she is going to call a smoke house for me and we can take it to get it smoked. Long story short I now have two vacuum packed sides of chum that look like lox. Everytime I call the smoke house and ask them how they smoked the fish I get the kid that doesn't know anything. My question is this, is it worth unwrapping and trying out if it was indeed cold smoked and is that the same thing as lox?