Smelts are good eating when, like anything, they're cooked right. If they're not cooked right you can use them as fertilizer.

Well, Mom, I'm off to Merryland again tomorrow morn. Well, really just after noon, local time, but I get on the shuttle tomorrow morn. Hope this trip will finish things up out there. Then we can go back for things like graduations and we can even spend Christmas in our own home without having to have surgery as an excuse.