Catfish: Do you eat it?
 

I haven't had it for years. Breaded some up lightly tonight and fried it. I forgot how good that stuff is. I've heard a lot of people refuse to eat it and I can't figure out why. So it's a bottom dweller, it's delicious.

How about you? Do you eat it?

nope ... can't stand the "lake" flavor of fresh fish.


all the fish i eat have to be that process stuff that doesn't actually taste like fish anymore. :D

I'm not a fish fan for the most part either. I prefer white fish though. Cod, halibut, catfish, etc. I need it breaded and fried too. None of that poached, or grilled shit. I take fish oil because I just refuse to eat it for the most part.

While halibut is my favorite, catfish is next. For sure.

Exception to the rule is smoked. I can eat damn near anything if it's smoked.

Shit yes, I eat it.

luftis ftw

I was really surprised when I read online that a large number of people refuse to eat it. Why? If you don't like fish that's one thing, but to be a fish lover and refuse to eat catfish is beyond me.

hells to the yes.

Does the Midwest have catfish houses? They're a social institution in the south.

Nice work with the comma there. A less careful man would have regrets.

There was a place just outside of Goodfellow AFB, TX when I was there for a school called Catfish Cove. 7.95 all you could eat - Fried Catfish, French Fries, Hush Puppies and Cole Slaw. Good food too. Farm-raised catfish and their hush puppy recipe was killer.

Needless to say, my per diem went a lot farther when I could stoke up on fish and hush puppies before heading downtown for the evening.

OH, yeah, on Fri/Sat, they had an all you could eat shrimp (boiled or fried) for 9.95.

Good times, good times.

Ur doin it rong.

I've eaten them in the past, but it's probably been 15 or 20 years. I like shellfish, but don't eat much regular fish any more.

Even when I was a kid and ate the fish I caught (haven't done that in forever either, as fishing bores the shit out of me), I always preferred bass to catfish.

Up north they equate it to carp.

I hold catfish in extremely low esteem.

When I was a young boy, I was friends with this poor kid whose dad was kind of a crazy drunk and lived in a shack out by the river. Once, he took us out on the river in a rowboat, tied a rope around our waists, handed us each a hay hook, and took turns throwing us overboard. The idea was to grope around the underwater river bank until you came to a hole. Then, you jammed your hay hook around inside the hole and yanked on the rope. When the old guy saw the rope yank, he would haul us in ... preferably with a catfish stuck to your hay hook. Ever since then, you couldn't pay me to eat a catfish. No way. In fact, those emotional scars are so deep, I even have a problem with rowboats. I'd just as soon douse a rowboat with gasoline and burn it to ash as look at one.

FAX

Hell yes, blackened or breaded and fried please.