[AT] ATIS Charity Auction/Herring

[Al Jones]

BLEACH!!!!!!!!

Never been able to get close enough to eat one. I don't like eastern NC
fish stew either.  Fry me some flounder fillets or some shrimp or
something.... 

Several years ago myself, my great-uncle (just turned 80 last year) his,
son in law, and his brother in law all loaded up and went to the
Thresher's Reunion in Denton.  My great uncle always brings "goodies" on
any trip of more than 3-4 miles.  That day he had a cooler of drinks,
small cans of fruit, a sleeve of saltine crackers, couple of Little
Debbie cakes, and last but certainly not least, a couple cans of
herring.  I told him under NO circumstances was he to eat those in the
truck!!

Al

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:14 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] ATIS Charity Auction

I've heard lots of stories about the ways Northern Europeans and US 
decendants eat herring.  Just for the sake of discussion let me tell you
how 
us good ole boy SE US red necks eat the stuff.
We only eat them in the spring when they run up the local rivers and
creeks 
to spawn.  We catch them fresh with a variety of different net
techniques. 
The REAL sportsmen catch them with a rod and reel and artificial lures.
We 
gut them, scale them and cut their heads off (not necessarily in that 
order).  Then we score the sides of the fish laterally all the way to
the 
bone about 3 or 4 times on each side.
Now it's time to bread them lightly in a mixture of white corn meal,
flour, 
salt and black pepper.  Next they go into hot oil in a cast iron pot and
fry 
until they float.  Take them out, let them drip a few seconds, put one
fish 
on one slice of white bread, coat generously with Texas Pete hot pepper 
sauce and wash it down with a cold Pepsi or Coke or a cold beer.   It's 
important to fry them until they float.  That way you can eat bones and
all 
and never know the difference.

NO I'm not joking.  That's the way we do it.

Charlie