Food and Drink Catfish: Do you eat it?

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 03-02-2010, 09:14 PM

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?

Mr. Laz · 03-02-2010, 09:17 PM

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.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 03-02-2010, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Laz

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.

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.

NewChief · 03-02-2010, 09:19 PM

Shit yes, I eat it.

SPchief · 03-02-2010, 09:19 PM

luftis ftw

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 03-02-2010, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by NewPhin

Shit yes, I eat it.

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.

Ebolapox · 03-02-2010, 09:20 PM

hells to the yes.

NewChief · 03-02-2010, 09:20 PM

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

**cdcox** · 03-02-2010, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by NewPhin

Shit yes, I eat it.

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

Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan · 03-02-2010, 09:22 PM

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.

niblet · 03-02-2010, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Laz

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

Ur doin it rong.

Frazod · 03-02-2010, 09:22 PM

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.

**cdcox** · 03-02-2010, 09:22 PM

Up north they equate it to carp.

FAX · 03-02-2010, 09:24 PM

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

**Bugeater** · 03-02-2010, 09:24 PM

Hell yes, blackened or breaded and fried please.

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03-02-2010, 09:14 PM
Mr. Flopnuts FINALLY! The wait is over. Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The Future Is Now!!! Casino cash: $19947565	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?
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Ebolapox remember, remember Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: como Casino cash: $-1630097	hells to the yes.
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03-02-2010, 09:22 PM	#10
Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan I am Number Six Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Columbia, MD, USA Casino cash: $-1390000	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. __________________ One of the lowest PPD of any of the original members of the Planet . . . and proud of it. My web site My writer's page
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03-02-2010, 09:22 PM	#12
Frazod Did you hear what I said? Join Date: Aug 2000 Casino cash: $-626615	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.
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03-02-2010, 09:22 PM	#13
cdcox www.nfl-forecast.com Join Date: Sep 2000 Casino cash: $-488231	Up north they equate it to carp.
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03-02-2010, 09:24 PM	#14
FAX testing ... 1, 2, 3 Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Tennessee Casino cash: $6753759	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
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03-02-2010, 09:24 PM	#15
Bugeater The Maintenance Guy Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Renovated Bugeater Estate Casino cash: $3992680	Hell yes, blackened or breaded and fried please.
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