Posted on 03/03/2019 3:36:08 AM PST by vannrox
Catfish?
The local Tractor Supply sells individually wrapped chicken feet in the pet section. Our dog goes nuts for them.
We were in Cuba and I was too young to really know what he was angling for. We would fish off some low rocks for whatever we could eat. Rationing inspired fishing technique, I suppose.
I generally agree with that, though of course some tasty specialty foods we just don’t make.
It is crazy that we ship meat and grains, etc., to countries that can well produce their own—as well as taking such basic commodities shipped literally halfway around the world back ourselves.
We’d have more national security if we had more domestic supply—including regionally instead of 80% from CA and FL, too. It would make for more pleasant places to live and save a lot on energy. Just need to align it right so the externalities saved are rightly credited.
“Hey Commie Chinese...you can have the chicken lips Free.”
Don’t forget the chicken combs. Very popular in China, along with chicken feet. Btw, here in the US a big jar of pickled chicken feet was very common in red neck bars way back in the day, pickled pigs feet and pickled eggs too. Not so much anymore though.
Long ago when I visited China, smoked chicken feet, were a favorite at the movie theater.
Like thin stringy jerky with bones and claws.
That and roasted watermelon seeds.
At least you hope they don't catch crabs...
sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,
Americans should eat American.
49ers used to ship their clothes by slow boat to China for laundering.
You couldn’t keep a laundry staffed anywhere in California, the workers would leave the nasty, low paying job of handling other peoples soiled underwear to seek their fortune mining gold a few day’s walk away...
That must have been a heckuva long turn around time, LOL
Interesting.
I know that domestic companies are at a disadvantage shipping stuff through the USPS domestically compared to what can be shipped to American consumers from China, because China somehow gets to ship at UN-set, artificially low, costs for supposedly 3rd world countries.
I wonder if that pertains for laundry-level shipments as well.
As soon as we start growing our own chocolate...
Yep! But it made sense at the time. Cheaper to buy a few more clothes to wear while the dirty ones were on vacation in the orient, than to risk loosing that large nugget to someone else because you were too busy doing something non-productive like washing your own clothes!
Oh????
Does Trump know this?
Seems like a pretty good club to enhance their willingness to feel a little less aggressive in the international waters around the Middle Kingdom, for example...
Not so much big as waterlogged and swollen.
Ate them in China. They were surprisingly good.
I use them in bone broth stock all the time, also other assorted “parts” from chickens, pigs and cattle that most people think are gross (feet, shanks, necks and such). The chicken “paws” are kind of creepy, but after the first couple of times of blanching them and hacking off those talons, it’s no big deal. Still would not eat them, esp. after they’ve simmered for hours (gooey!), but they do make for a nice gelled broth full of collagen and goodness.
I remember those pickled “goodies” back in the day. Usually you had to be pickled yourself to eat ‘em. Ha
I’ve been reading about it in the media and I can only imagine he and his trade team are aware (and likely behind what little media coverage it has gotten).
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