[AT] ATIS Charity Auction/Herring

[charlie hill]

Al, that was my point.  The things aren't fit to eat!  The only way you can 
do it is to fry them until there's nothing left but the crunch!

I agree with you.   I'm not eating and don't want to be around any kind of 
fish in a flat can with a wind up key on top of it!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <aljones at ncfreedom.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] ATIS Charity Auction/Herring


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [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
>
>
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