Catfish: Do you eat it?

[FAX]

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

[Norman Einstein]

Originally Posted by FAX

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

Sounds like kind of noodlin' with kid bait.

[DumbHillbillies]

Originally Posted by FAX

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

. That's kinda messed up but shouldn't keep you from eating that delicious pig of the sea.

[Bugeater]

Hell yes, blackened or breaded and fried please.

[MichaelH]

My wife is one of those people that loves fish and seafood but won't eat catfish. I think that she thinks they're almost like carp or suckers. I've tried to get her to try my fried catfish nuggets with a mustard dipping sauce but she refuses. To eat their own.

[DaFace]

I generally enjoy it, but haven't had it in years.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Hell yes, blackened or breaded and fried please.

Blackened. I forgot about that! I'll take white fish blackened for a healthy alternative to breaded and fried.

Originally Posted by DaFace

I generally enjoy it, but haven't had it in years.

That's what inspired the poll. I picked up some up at the grocery store and made it tonight. It had been years and years since I ate it last. I'm sitting here with a full belly trying to figure out why I waited so long. It was delicious.

[Mecca]

I'm not a big fish eater but I've been eating more since I've been dieting and all that, it's ok.

[DeezNutz]

English, mother****er: Do you speak it?

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

English, mother****er: Do you speak it?

Did I fudge on my grammar? If so, I'm ignorant to it.

[Norman Einstein]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

English mother****er: Do you speak it?

Who TF you talking to?

If it would be me I'd say to keep your english mother off the streets.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Norman Einstein

Who TF you talking to?

If it would be me I'd say to keep your english mother off the streets.

My name isn't TF.

End with a prep, no comma, lower-case "e"?!!!111221

Oh, noez.

[stlchiefs]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

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.

I wonder if those same people eat Tilapia?

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by stlchiefs

I wonder if those same people eat Tilapia?

Or lobster.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by stlchiefs

I wonder if those same people eat Tilapia?

Yeah, that seems to be the fish flavor of the week these days.