[AT] ATIS Charity Auction/Herring

[Mattias Kessén]

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'"
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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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