fiah stories

since i am awake, some fish facts. NO ONE in Brackenridge would even think of eating carp or catfish, except those living on 4th avenue, the "colored," street.  Just about everyone considered them garbage food since they ate garbage from a polluted river.  When we moved to the Midwest, I was amazed how many restaurants served breaded catfish and that social clubs advertised catfish dinners on a Friday night basis. Here, catfish was THE fish to eat!  The "finer" restaurants would stress their catfish was "pond raised." Lise Dixon's Fish Shop in East Peoria.  When I worked for Ruth Industries, selling maintenance chemicals, one of my accounts was the park district in El Paso-and there were 50 lb bags of Purina Catfish chow.  So it was not a lie after all
Carp is another story. There are 2 rows of red bitter flesh, that, if removed, make it edible. Suppository.Carp is considered a white fish and I have a story to tell of Amanda.s first fish-a duck caught on the green river in Provo.  To me, if you can throw a stone across the other side it is a creek, not a river. The green river emptied into Utah Lake and I asked the Park Ranger what the big boats were throwing out nets to catch-he said carp to be sold in New York as a Jewish delicacy and they are also made into fish sandwiches  for Hardee's and other fast food places.  So the next time you order a fish sandwich, it  is not some cold water fish from the north.  It is carp.  And what ever you do, don't buy fish or chicken from Wal-Mart.  The fish are very polluted and the chickens have been dead for some time and after skinning them,(the workers usually throw up), they are put in a pool of yellow-orange colored water to look fresh. And then sent from China, Side note:  all fish have small, live worms, living just under the scales-even trout!  So just get a good variety of Omega 3 for your vitamin, and when you fish, catch and release.  Good night:)