On Tue 15 Feb 2005 04:29:58a, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
> :
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>> On Tue 15 Feb 2005 04:11:03a, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
>>> :
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>>>> On Tue 15 Feb 2005 02:10:35a, Dog3 wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> Melba's Jammin' > wrote in
>>>>> :
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article >, Wayne
>>>>>> Boatwright > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> >> It was sold in 6 oz. packages, but I can't remember the brand.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Wakefield?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, that's it, Wakefield! Appears to be non-existent here in
>>>>>>> AZ. If it were in the stores I frequent, I'd have recognized it
>>>>>>> right away. Is it still around in the midwest?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I haven't noticed. Haven't looked, either.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wakefield is available frozen in St. Louis but I have never tried
>>>>> it. I use fresh crab when I need it for a good recipe and canned
>>>>> crab for dips and nibbles etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>> I buy fresh backfin and dungeness crab for certain dishes. The
>>>> Wakefield frozen king crab I used to keep on hand in the freezer for
>>>> a particular appetizer "recipe" that I used to make. An 8 oz. block
>>>> of cream cheese, beaten and spread on a serving plate; Bennett's
>>>> Chili Sauce mixed with horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon
>>>> juice, then the crabmeat lightly stirred into the chili sauce
>>>> mixture; the whole thing poured over the cream cheese. Serve with
>>>> Triscuits and water crackers.
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have made this before but I used cocktail sauce instead of the
>>> Bennett's. All of the other ingredients are the same except the crab.
>>> I used canned for this recipe and usually only take it to food days
>>> at work. For the cannibals at work I could have probably used fake
>>> crab and none of them would know the dif. We're talking about a
>>> group of people that think wienies in BBQ sauce kept in the crock pot
>>> is a gourmet meal.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>> I've always used Bennett's (it used to be called "Bennett's Chili
>> Sauce Relish") because it has little bits of onion and red and green
>> pepper in it. Both the Wakefield's and the Bennett's were brands
>> specified when a friend gave me this "recipe" years ago. I can't find
>> the Bennett's here in Az, either, but there is another brand packaged
>> in a little round jar called Hommade(sic) Chili sauce that is made the
>> same way.
>>
>> I agree about the bunch at work. It amazes me at what people will
>> eat! For many of them, going to Blimpie at lunch is a real treat! :-)
>>
>> When fake crab first began appearing in our supermakets back in Ohio,
>> I was curious enough to buy some. After the first bite, the rest
>> landed in the trash. I just can't get it down. I'm not being a snob,
>> I just find it revolting.
>>
>> Wayne
>
> I read the ingredients once. The only thing I remember is Whitefish. I
> would not have thrown it out, I would have tried it on a salad smothered
> in 1000 Island dressing ;(
>
> Michael

Ay! There's the rub. I don't like whitefish! Fact is, there are many
types of fish I don't much like.

Wayne