[AT] ATIS Charity Auction/Herring

charlie hill chill8 at suddenlink.net
Thu Dec 13 08:13:25 PST 2007


Yeah Mattias send it on!  I still need to get a Christmas present for my 
neighbors cat.  grins.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] ATIS Charity Auction/Herring


> Charlie, are you trying to force me to send you a can. Herring among the
> best food one can get and the variations are endless.
>
> Mattias
>
>
> 2007/12/13, charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>:
>>
>> 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'"
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> 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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