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Janet

In article >,
says...

> When I was a kid, we would go spearing eels at night in Great South Bay
> (Long Island) and take them to a guy who would smoke them... he kept
> half. Very good!
>
> Since fish/crabs/eels were free (all you had to do is catch them), we
> ate them a lot. My father always said that we ate like rich people even
> though we were very poor and in many cases, he was right.

:-) We lived on the bank of the river Wye and everyone but me ate
eels which my Grandfather caught in a trap. My grandmother hauled them
out, cut off the heads and threw the slimy body in a bucket where they
continued to writhe horribly for hours. She fried them in a pan and they
still kept wriggling ; I could never bring myself to eat them back then,
because of the headless writhing.

I've had eel since and it was good, see what I missed.

Janet UK