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Who's got squirrel-trapping experience?
Rusty_Hinge wrote in
. uk: The message 3 from Tom contains these words: Last weekend I bought razor clams at the same shop. Delicious when sauteed for 60s, but some people don't like watching them wriggle immediately before cooking. But perhaps this is meandering a bit too far off topic. In 1958 when I was hiking round the Highlands I caught an eel. A big hooter. I cut off its head, and it wriggled. I skinned it, and it writhed. I cut into sections, and they twitched. They only stopped twitching when they were cooking nicely. Despite the twitchiness, the eel was delicious - and revolted several passers-by. Oh eels. Especially freshly hot-smoked. There's the last surviving mud-horse fisherman in the UK, (Adrian Sellick in Stolford *), and he regularly catches eels in his nets, and then keeps them alive in a Belfast sink. As my daughter found out, you can't lift the eels out with your hands, you have to scoop/flick them out. Once upon a time everyone would have known why "as slippery as an eel" is an apt simile. (And "flying by the seat of your pants" has real meaning in a glider, but that's another tangent). Anyway, I once bought some eels from a local fishmonger and asked that they kill them. After 5 mins of thumping out back, the eels were subdued (with a hammer to the skull) and put in a carrier bag. I duly put them in the fridge door and, when I came back an hour later, I had to retrieve one from somewhere else in the fridge. [*] http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/may/31/foodanddrink.shopping |
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Who's got squirrel-trapping experience?
Tom wrote:
I duly put them in the fridge door and, when I came back an hour later, I had to retrieve one from somewhere else in the fridge. Oh dear Did you receive a post from me btw? |
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Who's got squirrel-trapping experience?
"Ophelia" wrote in
: Tom wrote: I duly put them in the fridge door and, when I came back an hour later, I had to retrieve one from somewhere else in the fridge. Oh dear Did you receive a post from me btw? No You could always try tggzzz at gmail dot com |
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Who's got squirrel-trapping experience?
Tom wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in : Tom wrote: I duly put them in the fridge door and, when I came back an hour later, I had to retrieve one from somewhere else in the fridge. Oh dear Did you receive a post from me btw? No You could always try tggzzz at gmail dot com Will do |
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