Hopefully everyone is doing well and not so mad at me for my lack of posts...
Alas i have time to write and do i have a topic for you!
......CATFISH......
love them or hate them?
The other night Tezar and I had a guy over for dinner. His name is Odell. Odell is HILARIOUS and despite first appearances
wouldn't you know that Odell is a true country boy ;)I observed this firsthand as Odell cracked us up with his stories of shooting possums (something, he claims, that is far more dangerous then you could imagine) to stories about a raccoon literally stealing his McDonald's meal from him right before his eyes and eating it in front of him in a tree.
Needless to say this was a fun dinner.... little did i know that the fun would carry on to the next day.
Odell had informed Tez that for fall break he was going to go fishing. Tez (wanting to try his hand at fishing) decided that he would join him at... get this.. 6 in the morning... Oh yea... according to Odell "the early bird gets the worm"
I thought Tez was joking at first... (i don't think Tez has ever woken up at 6AM... he has "stories" but i don't believe them)
But sure enough around 6:05 Tez jumps out of bed to go fishing (this is, of course, is after getting a call from Odell who was out in our driveway...)
Around noon i receive an excited call from Tez. He and Odell have caught numerous catfish.. and he brought one home... to eat....He was so excited:
Tez: Babe, what are you cooking tonight?
Me: I'm not sure yet
Tez: Ok well i have the catfish and Odell went with me to Kroger to get some of the stuff to put on it so we can cook that and you can make some, like, mashed potatoes to go with it... sounds good?!
Ok let me start out by saying this... I LOVE FISH. In Puerto Rico going deep sea fishing was a weekly occurrence. And eating the fish we caught was a cherished moment... a moment of glory. So
1) i knew how excited Tez was....
2) i didn't have the heart to kill his excitement by telling him.... I HATE CATFISH!
CATFISH ARE DISGUSTING!!!
Must i give you the facts?
Well it's too gross not too!
A) catfish are "bottom dwellers" that is nice wording which pretty much means: THEY EAT WHATEVER IS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE POND (aka POOP) my mother told me that fish poop is different then human poop... does that matter to me? NO! POOP IS POOP!
B) Do you know how they FEED catfish (and tilapia) on fish farms?! Well, in a large aquarium they first add salmon (not bottom dwellers) they then feed the salmon, salmon food. After the salmon are nice and fat they take them out to do whatever they do to sell them and then they proceed to put in catfish or tilapia in the tank to...well... let's just say clean out what the salmon left (POOP)
SICK NASTY
not to mention that, to me, there is a whole lot of difference between salt water and Mississippi pond water... maybe it's all in my head...but the difference still remains!
So i come home to find this:
Tezar is soo excited about his catch!
We fry up that little bad boy:
And yes, Tezar DID in fact use a KROGER bag to mix up the seasoning on the catfish...sighBella wanted some of the action too:
And there you have it... Tez gives me some and i admit, I ate a little piece (meanwhile visions of a poop filled aquariums lingered in my mind) When he proceeds to give me more i make my confession... something like: "I CAN'T CATFISH EAT POOP!!!"
To which Tez is stunned. He's never heard this before. So i proceed to tell him everything i have just informed you, and what does he do?
He continues eating....
after a while i catch him just staring at the food..
What's going on babe? I ask
He kind of pokes at the rest of the catfish and says...It just hit me what all you told me... i don't know if i can finish this....
he waits a second...changes his mind... and eats the rest...
THE END
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