More like The OKRA of the Sea!
Posted on 11/22/2022 7:23:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
Squanto giving the pilgrims eels made sense given the time during which he discovered the pilgrims. Eels do not like cold water. During the winter, they gather in large numbers to ball up and twist themselves together in the mud. This makes them easy to catch with the forked spears that were typically used by the Native Americans.
Native Americans would also harvest eels in large numbers by building river weirs in the autumn. River weirs arer small-scale dams that raise the water levels in a small area to allow for the build-up of (in this case) the eel population. After the eels were caught, they were dried and smoked for the winter. They provided a long-lasting, reliable food source.
When the first Thanksgiving meal took place the following year, it was very likely that eel was served at the table.
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Good point. I think frying an egg would be a challenge for her.
I like it, grandma always made it.
I absolutely LOVE unagi - Japanese freshwater eel grilled with a semi-sweet sauce over a bed of rice. Anago (salt water eel) is good too, but unagi is much better in my mind.
I have never eaten smoked eel but it sounds delicious. They are supposed to be fatty.
More like The OKRA of the Sea!
Remove from oven. Throw away the eels and eat the bacon...............
That was the World Eels Federation. The new one is the World Economic Forum, but they are also slimy and worm-like.
Actually venison was the main dish, along with turkey , duck/geese, fish and eels
Chief of Wampanoag Massasoit sent his men into the woods and brought back 5 deer had killed
Vegetables were corn, beans squash (succotash)
No cranberry sauce or green bean casserole
I think you can substitute snot otters...
“As God is my witness, I thought eels could fly”
Its a line from a TV show.
Another common commercial harvest was America shad. There’s still a shade run on the Delaware River and it is popular with recreational fishermen. The Susquehanna has shad to, but the run is blocked by dams.
Little know fact: there were three wars fought over between Pennsylvania and Connecticut over land and fishing rights. The wars were known as the Pennamite–Yankee Wars. The wars were fought in the Wyoming Valley along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River between the years of 1769 and 1799. Check that last date. I’ve always been curious if the Pennamite–Yankee Wars ever entered into debates for the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution, but I haven’t run into anything written about it. My guess it wasn’t that big of an issue given that there was only a handful of casualties.
I hoped some astute FReeper would pick up my set up! 😂
Well, that explains it.
TV show writers don’t eat okra, because it’s a ‘Southern Thing’!...............................
Nodaiwa
Famed for its specialty grilled eel in Japan that has achieved a Michelin star, Nodaiwa’s outpost in Paris aims to deliver the exact same gourmet experience. With eel (unagi) as the undisputed star of the meal, the restaurant abides by an ancestral recipe—one that seeks out to bring the best flavours of the eel. Atop pillowy white rice, lies the tender slab of fillet—first doused in a secret marinate before going on the grill. If umami is what you seek while in Paris, here’s the perfect spot. (Vogue review)
272 Rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris
True. King Henry I died after pigging out on eels:
https://eels.historiacartarum.org/uncategorized/death-by-eels/
Okra slime and ell slime: ones green and the other is colorless otherwise, ells are better and don’t look so bad when they come up. 🤮
Every time I get up at the crack of down I wind up with a face full of feathers.
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