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BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge?
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Little Hawk Date: 21 May 01 - 01:42 PM So, what does she call a hunk of beef or lamb? Or a package of fish sticks? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bert Date: 21 May 01 - 01:30 AM Back in the days when the babies were in their teens we had an in home zoo, just about any animal was fair game for our collection, we had possums, squirrels, lizards, turtles, snakes, birds, rabbits, frogs and other assorted amphibians, mice, rats - ANYTHING. Well occasionally, despite our best efforts, one of these denizens would snuff it. The kids of couse would want to know why, and would store the latest poor unfortunate in the freezer until they could get it to our tame vet for an autopsy. This was fine until Tree's Mom came for a visit, she was horrified, "You can't keep DEAD ANIMALS in your freezer" she says. Tree calmly replies, "What do you keep in your freezer" Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Sorcha Date: 20 May 01 - 09:31 PM One summer when I was about 10 I was digging in the fridge for something to eat. I found these round things wrapped in paper. Opened one up---grapefruit, a Xmas gift from 7 mos ago. I asked Mum if they were "spoiled enough to throw away yet....." Became a family watch word! I personally have had antelope (pronghorn) heads, bobcat hides, and several other things on that order in my freezer. Don't marry a hunter/trapper either, (grin) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Little Hawk Date: 20 May 01 - 08:15 PM You need to put on "Space Oddity" and listen to it several times. It does wonders for lucidity and helps keep your haid on straight. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: catspaw49 Date: 20 May 01 - 07:49 PM "in their?"....that'd be "in there"...........Past couple of days I have typed here for hear and vice versa too....(and too for to also).............The pledge drive is having a deleterious effect on my brain.......................Pass me them eels. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: catspaw49 Date: 20 May 01 - 07:47 PM Many years ago in my bachelor days, I had one fridge that was so disgusting I wouldn't open the door. Stuff had been mouldering in their for years........So when I moved (and neither Pfizer or Eli Lilly would buy the thing for penicillin) I employed the "Handyman's Secret Weapon." Yep......We duct-taped that sucker shut and put it out on the street with the garbage! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 20 May 01 - 07:15 PM Jeri, I am still giggling from that parody! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: SINSULL Date: 20 May 01 - 04:58 PM Know what you mean, Jeri. My mother claimed she was raising those cultures for Dr. Salk. I was ten before I realized the truth. I don't save leftovers for more than two days - the result of childhood trauma. NOTHING lives in my refrigerator! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Jeri Date: 20 May 01 - 04:25 PM SINS, there's living stuff in my refrigerator that used to be dead. Kind of like a "Pet Sematary" for food... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: SINSULL Date: 20 May 01 - 03:16 PM I am having flashbacks to my childhood - Chinese food cartons full of seaweed and huge bloodsuckers, a mysterious bag from which a smoked eel the size of Moby Dick dropped out the bottom. Anyone remember the scene from "Anatomy Of A Marriage"? She, pregnant, is served a huge portion of eel stew by her soon to be ex-husband. He insists she not waste "good" food. She and the audience gag down a few of the slimy beasts and everyone runs for the bathrooms. I am getting sick just thinking about it. No living creatures in my refrigerator! And yes - that includes live yoghurt cultures! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 May 01 - 02:59 PM I just nailed Curmudgeon's feet to the floor long enough to get the recipe for smoked trout pate. Bake the trout (not grilled; used indirect heat and the cover on) on a grill (like a Webber). Use wood chips for smoking on the coals. While the fish is cooking, saute shallots in butter with fresh ground black pepper, Old Bay seasoning and a dash of single malt Scotch (Laphroaig is nice). When the fish has cooled, remove the meat from the bones, mis with the shallot/butter/whiskey misture. Mix thoroughly, breaking up any larger pieces. Put in a container and chill. Serve with bread or crackers. Is this thread creep? Sorry, if it is. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: lady penelope Date: 20 May 01 - 10:55 AM I work in a microbiology lab. Want me to tell you what we keep in our fridges? I did, indeed, mean cooking. I live in a flat, where would I smoke something? I am intrigued. But the recipe for the pate would be nice, thanks B.G. TTFN M'lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Jeri Date: 20 May 01 - 10:30 AM Right after I posted that bit of silliness above, I went to the local store to buy some cream for my coffee. They keep the worms in the cooler between the cheese and the milk. When I was a vet tech, we kept grosser things in the fridge. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bat Goddess Date: 20 May 01 - 10:24 AM Cooling trout or cooking trout? I think we're smoking a rainbow and a brookie to make into pate for our music party in Nottingham, NH next weekend. Need the recipe? Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Little Hawk Date: 19 May 01 - 09:22 PM Jeri.... "Ape Picking Lice"
Like an ape picking lice
Like a worm underfoot
If I, if I have been unreal
Like an ape picking lice There. Mine makes even more sense than yours. :-) - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: wdyat12 Date: 19 May 01 - 04:41 PM Should fish be sought? wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Jeri Date: 19 May 01 - 04:33 PM Charlie, it was a parody of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire." I may have to stretch to reach mediocrity, but my song makes more sense than his. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: wdyat12 Date: 19 May 01 - 04:20 PM lady penelope, All this talk of catching fish is making me hungry for my mercury dose this month. I wish the rivers and oceans were as clean as President Bush proclaims. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: lady penelope Date: 19 May 01 - 04:03 PM Oh good, I've never understood those anglers who catch fish just to let them go again. Seems awful cruel to me. 3lb trout? Cool. Did it taste good? got any good ways of cooling trout? I've got to stop this, I'm making myself hungry! TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Charley Noble Date: 19 May 01 - 10:57 AM Reminds me, anyone read that great children's book SLUGS IS SLUGS? Nice poem, Jeri. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Gervase Date: 19 May 01 - 10:55 AM Lady P, I only eat what I catch. Not that I catch that much, so maybe it's as well I've got a good fishmonger near me! But tonight it's a 3lb trout landed last night on a damsel nymph, poached in court boullion and served with mayonnaise. Wouldn't mind a few eels, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Jeri Date: 19 May 01 - 10:39 AM A guest said Those who keep live eels in the fridge will die as live eels in the fridge. (Sorry - can't help it.) Like an eel in the fridge Like a slug in a ditch I will try in my way to be free Like the worms in a jar Or what's under the backseat in my car I have saved little surprises for thee If I, if I have been too gross I hope that I'm not as gross as most If I, if I am not the way you wish I hope you know that I just like to fish... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bat Goddess Date: 19 May 01 - 10:05 AM Foot long rubber squid!! Way cool! None of mine are that long (and only 3 glow in the dark), but I just recently had to walk away from buying a 3 or 4 foot long plush stuffed squid at the Monterey Bay Aquarium because it was out of my price range and I didn't want to either ship it home or carry it on the plane. Did find a pair of silver squid earrings, though. And a wonderful squid pen that looks like it's made out of amber and ivory. But the real question, is why aren't those eels either destined for a pie or for smoking (and eating -- I mean, you can't alter your mind by smoking eels, can you? how would you get them into the little pipe? are they a controlled substance? -- aw, I gotta go back to work!!!) Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Nemesis Date: 19 May 01 - 05:26 AM Coincidentally, I just heard Jonathan Ross on the radio saying that Bestiality is legal in Maine? A guy was refused permission to bring his wife into court - cos, she's a dog (which seems a harsh judgement to make about a lady). Eels, ugh I remember my Dad (a fishmonger) tryin' to kill the buggars - smoked conger eel is pretty good apparently. But I reckon newly-weds should have more on their minds than this!!
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 May 01 - 11:54 PM By the way, the inflatable horse or whatever it is, is truly extraordinary. An art-deco nightmare on the beach. I bet you could get a fortune for one of those if you put it on Ebay. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: catspaw49 Date: 18 May 01 - 11:45 PM Amazing ain't it? I dunno' how I run across the stuff.......sometimes I get things from 'Catters of good taste who may love a site but wouldn't post it or use it.........but they know Ol' Spaw will do anything (no real porn though). Other times, I'm looking for one thing and the search engines pick up on some weirdass site that just cracks me up. Bill D. has a ton of wacky sites too. The entire site that the Art Frahm stuff is on is really a riot. I love the way the guy writes. Funny too, but I actually remember being a kid back home and going into the upholstery and repair shop in the furniture store where my grandfather worked and seeing thos Art Frahm calendars.......Very daring in the 50's and for a small town ten year old....WOW!!!! Now I look at that stuff and am both amazed at how far we've come and what effect the '60's had while at the same time being saddened by that loss of innocense which is so obvious by comparison............**sigh**............ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Little Hawk Date: 18 May 01 - 11:33 PM Spaw - I had a look at your Art Frahm site. Wow! Very creepy! I had no idea what an effect celery can have on pink underwear! It's strange that all those women would keep buying that particular brand. You'd think word would get around. Why not any white or black underwear, fer chrissake? This Art Frahm guy definitely was odd. He somehow crystalized in that series of pictures the sick plastic undertone of the 50's. Thank god the 60's came along. I note that there is nary a hair to be seen on the legs of these unfortunate ladies. Not one. Truly amazing. How do you find this stuff? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: GUEST,psycodelek Date: 18 May 01 - 02:59 PM well the way around this i think is to say-i hate to kill them&they would die if left anywhere else which in&of itself is true>it also may bring out her nuturing instinct&the last thing you may want to mention is that orientals consider them delicious-also true now if she does fish woody it wont matter because youll have to try to make sure that she at least leaves you some for after work-cya psyco |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Charley Noble Date: 18 May 01 - 01:40 PM Mike, the only place I've found the foot-long squigglies, in several vivid colors, is a deep seas tackle shop in Shelborn, Nova Scotia. They're used in trolling. I'll bring one for show and tell to the Portland, ME, Shanty Sing next week-end. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: lady penelope Date: 18 May 01 - 01:32 PM Gawd the "ick" factor round here has rocketed due to this thread. Can't you just lounge around lakes and pretend you're fishing? Or are you one of those rare anglers ( especially this side of the "pond" ) who actually eat what you catch? If you come to the east end of London you can enjoy eel pie and mash with liquer. No fridges required! TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Mike Byers Date: 18 May 01 - 01:25 PM No, no! A fridge is way too cold for eels. I keep 'em in my pocket; the eels like it better this way and so do I. And where can I get a rubber squid? Actually, I need several rubber squids... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Charley Noble Date: 18 May 01 - 01:13 PM BG, I bet you don't have the awesome Nove Scotia "squigglies" we picked up for Roll & Go; some day we're going to do a chorus line with them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: harpgirl Date: 18 May 01 - 12:33 PM ....way to go wydat12...but maybe you should marry Kim C instead...evidently, she'll eat almost anything and she doesn't mind having it next to the milk in her fridge*wink* personally, I'm with kat and Schorcha on the issue of eels in the fridge.....hehe |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bat Goddess Date: 18 May 01 - 12:24 PM I've had MG tyres in the sink and snapping turtles in the freezer. Sounds too much like our house. I tend to marry men who are pretty relaxed about that sort of thing. I've got rubber snakes decorating the beams, too, and the largest collection of rubber squid in the state of New Hampshire. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Gervase Date: 18 May 01 - 11:20 AM Jumper cables, oil and a bucket of wet oatmeal? That's one helluva fetish you've got there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Fortunato Date: 18 May 01 - 11:09 AM Sounds like what I do with the jumper cables, 30 weight motor oil and a bucket of wet oatmeal. Excepting the dyke, of course. I don't usually catch anything though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Gervase Date: 18 May 01 - 10:55 AM Aargh, Chance, don't remind me (or my nether parts) of drinking that chilli oil! Hessian, I suppose, would be burlap on your side of the pond, or a gunny (sp?) sack. And three-ply wool is what you granny used to knit those scratchy and shapeless sweaters from (at least she did if she was anything like my granny. I swear her knitting patterns were designed for orang-utangs, the sleeves were so long. I'd have to roll them up four times, so the cuffs looked liked those trainer-bands for swimming toddlers). And babbing is what you do with the hairy wool and the worms in the dyke (I think it's a Suffolk word - leastaways I don't hear it used much in the middle of London!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Sorcha Date: 18 May 01 - 10:52 AM eel, ugh. snakes, ugh. Doug, I would think it would work, same principle. Snakes don't have much natural gelatn, tho, like eels do. Gives me the shivers, eels do. I have eaten rattlesnake, tho. Not much point in it if you ask me....mostly bones with no flavor. Sort of like trying to eat a bony chicken neck. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: wdyat12 Date: 18 May 01 - 10:32 AM Thanks Folks for all your good advice. I told Maggie last night about keeping live eels in the fridge. She wasn't thrilled, but she still wants to go fishing. She asked me what else I keep in there. Ah, the adjustment period. wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: LR Mole Date: 18 May 01 - 10:04 AM Eel be art in a minute. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Fortunato Date: 18 May 01 - 08:54 AM Gervase, how the !@#$ are you? I nearly wet myself imagining someone eating a "bowl of fishy snot". I have a few questions about your post, however, to whit: What is it "to bab"? What is a "three-ply hairy wool"? What is a hessian sack?
And, last but not least, how does the dyke feel about having a ball dangled in her?
curious in DC Chance ps drunk any olive oil lately? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 18 May 01 - 08:52 AM When Dad and I used to go fishing we always kept the maggots in the fridge (albeit in a tin). Before we had a fridge we kept them in the outdoor khazi as the coldest place. Then of course, forgot some when we went on holiday. On return, bursting for a pee, Mom went in, could hear strange buzzing from the mysteriuous tin, opened the lid......... RtS (ten thousand blowflies can't be wrong) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Charley Noble Date: 18 May 01 - 08:39 AM According to such old ballads such as "Randall, My Son" some eels is deadly poisonous, especially if they is "green and yellar." So, Wydat, you should at least put some sort of warning sticky on the fridge door, or one of them magnetic ones from work at BIW, or maybe one of them glowing ones from that retired nuke down the road in Wiscasset. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Gervase Date: 18 May 01 - 05:10 AM Jellied eels? Yuk! Like a bowl of fishy snot. My grandfather used to love jellied eels though, and used to keep the live ones in an old sink in the scullery. Buggers to kill and skin, they were - he taught me the trick(apologies to the squeamish here) of nailing thing heads to a board and then skinning 'em with hands covered in rock salt to get a good grip. But smoked eel - that's a dish fit for the gods. The Dutch use little bootlace eels, not much bigger than elvers, and smoke them in hot smoke which gives a fabulous taste. Yummy! Catching eels can be fun. In Suffolk we used to bab for them - using a bunch of worms knotted up with three-ply hairy wool with a weight attached. You just dangle the ball in a dyke and the eels' teeth snag on the wool as they go for the worms, letting you pull 'em out without hooks or spears. A damp hessian sack with a good drawstring is the best thing for carrying them home in. Ah, happy memories! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: catspaw49 Date: 18 May 01 - 01:06 AM .....uh..yeah............like....uh...............thanks Bert...............much obliged...................................I guess....................... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bert Date: 18 May 01 - 12:57 AM You can have the eels Spaw ol buddy. I'll stick to my trusty 'copter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: catspaw49 Date: 18 May 01 - 12:50 AM Hey Bert........here's a song for you to work on and you can base it on the other one already written (first part of the title) called "There's a Tear in My Beer Cause I Got Eels Up My Rear." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: Bert Date: 18 May 01 - 12:38 AM Doug, Do you have any Oriental Grocers in your area. Many of them stock eels. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: GUEST Date: 17 May 01 - 09:07 PM Those who keep live eels in the fridge will die as live eels in the fridge. What a barbaric practice. I hope there are no children reading this thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Should live eels be kept in the fridge? From: DougR Date: 17 May 01 - 05:18 PM Maybe I could substitute rattle snake! We got lots of those! |