> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:24:27 -0500, Kate Connally >
> wrote:
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>>SteveB wrote:
>>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
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>>> On Mar 5, 11:52 am, "cybercat" > wrote:
>>>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
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>>>> On Mar 5, 12:26 am, wrote:
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>>>>> How do I do simple fried (breaded) catfish? I don't have a deep fryer,
>>>>> Any
>>>>> favorite recipes out there? Thanks.
>>>>> Soak them for a couple hours in salted water to get rid of any
>>>> lingering strong fishy taste;
>>>>
>>>> Oh nooooo! If you need to do this, you don't like cat fish.
>>>
>>> Operative word: strong.
>>>
>>> N.
>>>
>>> "lingering strong fishy taste"? From catfish? The varieties of catfish
>>> have the "fishy" taste related to the water they live in. If yours
>>> taste
>>> this way, you may want to get it from different waters. Catfish from
>>> flowing waters have a very light fishy taste.
>>
>>Well, if you have "clean" flowing waters that is great.
>>I sure wouldn't want to eat catfish from the rivers around
>>here (Pittsburgh). I prefer lake catfish to river catfish.
>>Kate
>
> I can "one up" you on Pittsburg catfish. When I was in Vietnam 40 years
> ago, I
> saw the natives fishing for catfish in sewage channels alongside the
> roads.
> Sorry, but you brought that memory to mind. Actually fairly disgusting.



Hve you seen those pictures floating cyber space about the giant catfish in
the Mekong River. I wonder if Napalm and all the other crap dropped over
there in the name of Communism and 'Justice and American Way' made them that
big or if it were just run of the mill Vietnamese doodoo.
-ginny