On Tue 09 Aug 2005 10:21:10a, hubert liverman wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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Quoted message said:On Mon 08 Aug 2005 05:49:34p, Renee wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>> I look for these sales in the circulars, then sometimes stock up:
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>> Fresh catfish filets - $4.59 / lb
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> Actually I goofed on this one. This is really not such a good sale
> price since it's normally about $5 / lb.
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> Catfish is such a relatively inexpensive fish so you can do much
> better than that on when it's really on sale. But I love catfish at
> any price, especially the thin fillets fried up with a crispy
> cornmeal breading. Weird Southern stuff to some, I'm sure.
Truly Southern, yes, and delicious. What I love even more are the
small, whole, "channel" catfish that are fried whole including tail
fin.
The small fish are even tastier and the tail fin becomes crisp like
a
potato chip. Many "fish camp" type restaurants in the South serve
them this way.
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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
Oh those are fun to eat, too. Biting them off the bone reminds me of
those cartoons I watched as a kid -- the ones where the kitties
regurgitate a whole fish skeleton. Heheh -- that's me. :-)
Hi,
Im coming in late on this this, however you have stirred the Southern
part of my soul!
Catfish fillets are a Yankee pretention,an abomination of the fine art
of eating said delicacy. An all you can eat fish camp is a rare treat. A
salad of a half head of plated lettuce,jar of mayonaise,salt and pepper
plopped on the table is a requisite. An endless supply of small fresh
fish cought that day(or sooner), hush puppies,french fries,and ice cold
beverage of choice is indeed a rare treat. Needless to say, the sound of
an approaching outboard motor pulling up to the dock is joy unbounding.
If they have and old big red cola ice chest to hold the flopping and
growling cats, it is bliss. Unfortunately, most of these places no
longer exist as well as their cooks,genial Southern waitresses and old
shack ambiance. New large brick resturants and health departments have
taken their toll. Now to make you weep for the willows...40 or so years
ago the price was $2.99 + tax and tip. Expensive it was, and worth every
cent. Thanks alot..darn it! Now I've got to go somewhere that they
change the fish daily and the grease when they deem necessary.
Hubert
Lee County, AL.
Hubert, I am intimately familiar with every detail of what you described.
My parents grew up near Tupelo, MS, and I have or had relatives all over NE
MS, as well as in Florence, Mussel Shoales, Anniston, and Birmingham, AL.
I live in AZ now, but oh, what I would give to find a fish camp like those
I remember. It seems like, back in the 50s and 60s, we went to a fish camp
about every other week for dinner.
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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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