A Real Beaut (for Genre Shorties Week 8)

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Ina ♥ Tagline Free Since September '09 ♥ Jul 24, 2009, 7:28am EDT

Boone and Crockett? People eat Davy and Dan'l?

Sarah A. Hopes for More TOS Enforcement Jul 24, 2009, 8:23am EDT

B&C is the very antithesis of eating. B&C is all about stuffing your food and hanging it on the wall. (OK, maybe only the head, but still...)

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flit . Jul 24, 2009, 7:47am EDT

very effective ... love the ending

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sharon SugarMomma is a wise woman, Jul 24, 2009, 9:35am EDT

Well dang. I wouldn't eat that for the veritable million bucks they offer for that crap.

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Duckie 1 Jul 24, 2009, 10:19am EDT

As much as I love seafood, I don't think I've ever tried eel yet. I haven't run across it in the menu, I guess...

My Son-in-law hunts and he has trophies on his garage wall that I do not find decorative or worth crowing about... but he does. At least he keeps them outside of the house.

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ann c. Jul 24, 2009, 10:34am EDT

God among eels or not; he's not gonna be my dinner!!! Loved the post though!!!

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Kay M. Jul 24, 2009, 11:49am EDT

You described him too well. I'll just have salad. Well penned.

Sarah A. Hopes for More TOS Enforcement Jul 24, 2009, 12:34pm EDT

In England they eat them jellied. Only the British could take a food this unpalatable and make it worse...

Ishbel R. Jul 24, 2009, 1:52pm EDT

Not the British, Sarah, only the English! We're not too keen on them in the Celtic Fringe countries!

mind you, I've had smoked eel from the Kiel Canal in Germany. Not my favourite fish, but not bad...

Ishbel R. Jul 24, 2009, 1:58pm EDT

OK - we Scots have haggis and the Welsh have laver bread... maybe your use of British might not be too far off the mark... But... only the ENGLISH eat jellied eels, and it's more of a cockney thing than anywhere else. BLECH!

Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom Jul 24, 2009, 2:00pm EDT

In the murder ballad "Lord Randal" the victim tells his mother that he last ate "eels and eel broth."

Sarah A. Hopes for More TOS Enforcement Jul 24, 2009, 2:46pm EDT

OK, Ishbel, I concede it's the English - but their reputation is well-deserved. I was in England for less than a week - not even 1/3000th of my life, and yet I had there the single worst meal I've ever eaten. I was 16, on a train with no other food available for hours, ravenous, yet I could not eat the "pork pie" I was given.

And I'm no food weenie - I happily eat raw fish. Habanero salsa? Bring it on! Dried fungus (wood ears) - lovely. Shucky beans and corn bread, ambrosial. I used to get Steak Tartare for my birthday dinner, yet, the pork pie defeated me.

I rest my case.

Ishbel R. Jul 25, 2009, 3:05am EDT

Ah.... a BRITISH RAIL pork pie. They were the stuff of legend when I was a girl. Only drunks on trains were ever brave enough to try them.... the legend also said that they had to sit there, awaiting the foolish purchaser, for many weeks... Tourists often got caught in that trap!

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GayLynn P. Jul 24, 2009, 1:56pm EDT

Yeah, I have to agree with the others that he doesn't sound too palatable to me either. But I loved the story and the crone. Great interpretation of the prompt.

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penni d. Jul 24, 2009, 2:35pm EDT

I think I cooked the one eel I ever had, wrong,lol...It was heavy in the tummy, tho the flavor was tasty.

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A. F. Stewart Jul 24, 2009, 2:53pm EDT

Great story.

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Leo Lemmer Jul 24, 2009, 4:27pm EDT

The woman lived on Social Security and was tired of cat food.

Excellent response to the prompt!

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Dame Ruth, Chief Executive Elitist D. Jul 24, 2009, 5:09pm EDT

Unborn eel (angula) are a delicacy in Spain. Very tasty dish, too.

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Mustafa Demiri Jul 26, 2009, 2:07am EDT

Seafood Watch, one of the most well known sustainable seafood advisory lists, recommends that consumers avoid eating unagi due to significant pressures on worldwide freshwater eel populations. All three eel species used as unagi have seen their population sizes greatly reduced in the past half century. Catches of the European Eel, for example, have declined about 80% since the 1960s... They may be delicious, but let's try to leave them alone for now. I know everyone out there is just eager to go get some after reading Sarah's post, but please let us all fight off the temptation.