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Old 05-28-2011, 06:46 PM
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jpthequilter
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Originally Posted by dottientx
My MIL told about a hired hand they had when she was growing up who went fishing while they were in church one Sunday morning. He caught a turtle and by the time they came home he had butchered, cut it up it up into pieces and fried it. Those gathered around the 'dinner' table thought it tasted something like seven different kinds of meat and they all thought it was good. I grew up in a fishing family in eastern KS so learned to eat a variety of fish, including eel. Don't recall ever having turtle but it was probably on the table at some point in time. I'm a bit more picky about what I eat now!!!
Smoked eel is delicious. In the netherlands it comes from the cold north sea and is a favorite there.
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