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Fishing
Instead of hijacking Angelpixie's thread, I thought I should move this to a separate thread, but I'll keep Halien's comments in the quote since it is what got me thinking of the post in the first place:
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Originally Posted by Halien
Sadly, I didn't even understand some of those examples, so now I'm adding another reason to be glad that I don't have to use a dating site. Just not at all into the logic behind fishing. You know, if I want to buy a new pair of jeans, I don't just hang around the edge of the men's department at Target for four hours, throwing a string into the department and hoping that a pair of pants might decide to investigate. When they decide to legalize fishing with dynamite, so you can get 'r done in five minutes, I'll take up the "sport" of fishing.
I read a quote one time that said something to the effect of, "A man spends a lifetime fishing before he realizes what he is pursuing is not fish."
Some other good fishing quotes includes one from my wife that disagrees with that a bit. She once said, "If it comes out of the water, I want to eat it."
I should add that after the first time we put her philosophy in action on a long nosed gar, she decided the long nose gar would be an exception to her philosophy ... (Even a fine chef like her couldn't make that thing smell or taste good.)
A fellow I once knew told me, "We used to go fishing every Saturday. We stopped after we invited my brother-in-law to come with us. He messed everything up because he insisted on bringing bait."
One of my favorite running jokes comes from when my wife was still a little less adept with the language. We used to go fishing for catfish and stripers in California. We always used chicken livers for the bait because those fish LOVE that bloody and nasty stuff like that. The problem is that my wife couldn't say "liver" at that time, so she always talked about us stopping to get some "chicken lips" so we could go fishing.
One of my favorite stories from fishing is from about 20 years ago. We were fishing on the California Aqueduct for stripers and catfish. Every time I baited my hook and cast my line in, while the current was carrying my line downstream to it's resting place, I would step on the seams in the concrete in the side of the aqueduct and reach down and rinse the blood off of my hand. My wife fussed at me every time I did that telling me I was going to fall in. Sure enough, about mid-afternoon, I stepped on a gravel in the crack when I stepped down and fell into the water. I'm a good swimmer, but that current was SWIFT. I grabbed onto the seams in the concrete on the side, and it was a very difficult task to hold on, and pull myself up out of the water and back up onto the bank.
Realizing how difficult that was, I wanted to test out how my wife was thinking. Always thinking like a problem solver, I looked at the fish net and wondered if she had thought of how to help me out of the water. I hoped she had a plan, so I asked her, "What would you have done if I couldn't get out of the water by myself.
Still obviously steamed at me, she glared at me and said, "Started looking for a new husband." (I love that woman ... never a shortage of pluckiness and wit)
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Hope I didn't offend those who really enjoy fishing. See, I could sit on the bank of a stream for hours at a time, if my purpose was "to sit on the bank of a stream for hours". But ... if my purpose is to catch fish, then the only way to enjoy it for me is figure out how to build a device that will suck that stream dry of all fish fish life in five minutes flat. That's just the type A part of me.
The men in my wife's family were all really into fishing. We'd go to their beach place and they would sit in the chair for hours at a time, with the other end of that nylon string dipped into a twenty zillion gallon ocean, hoping that they would catch that one fish that would feed all ten of us. Every day it was the same, along with their endless ribbing about being a Creek indian who didn't like to fish.
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Re: Fishing
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Originally Posted by 2nd_t!me iz_best
umm, ok?
heard too many horror stories about raw fish.
but the right person MIGHT could talk me into trying it.
I eat a lot of sashimi (That's raw fish without the rice that you have with sushi.) For the most part, I agree with Dolly in that the flavor is mostly gone if you cook food too much. That includes fish. I especially eat a lot of sashimi when I'm travelling because it's the leanest thing you can get at restaurants. It's not swimming in butter, etc. It's very easy to gain weight when travelling if you don't learn how to eat.
What I understand about sashimi and sushi is this: Fish such as Salmon that live part of their lives in fresh water can carry tapeworms, flukes, or other parasites. However; sashimi is frozen as part of its preparation - at least for these types of fish. Freezing will kill the parasites.
Fish that do not live part of their lives in fresh water do not carry parasites that can be transferred to humans. This includes ahi tuna, mahi mahi, etc. However; you still have to be careful in preparation so there is no cross contamination, etc. So you want to have a place where you trust the preparation.
I also eat octopus sashimi (one of the most flavorful) and squid including the Korean way with the wriggling tentacles. Raw oysters, sea cucumber ... you name it.
As I understand, there are more cases of botulism per-capita in the US than there is cases of foodborne illnesses (including parasites) from raw fish in Japan and Korea. It's interesting in that a lot of our "safe" food in the US really isn't safer than that "unsafe" food that we usually like to point at.
As for me, I just love the flavor. It took me a bit to get used to it, and I probably wouldn't had I not married an Asian woman, but now, I love it.
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