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What? You never ate mudfish?
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I think I had some at Golden Corral once...
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Well, if that's all you've got....
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Don't they have,...like,..warthogs and stuff to eat over there?
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Subsistence agriculture, done by hand, they grow stuff or herd stuff.
That mattock they were digging with is the primary soil cultivation tool.
Corn, sorghum and millet for grains. Tomato, peppers, okra, mangos, bananas and oranges for fruits. Cassava, taro and yams for root crops. Peanuts for legumes. Cattle, sheep, goats, chickens and eggs for animal protein. That's most of whats eaten every day plus whatever the bush provides.
Giant land snails, impaled on sticks and dried. Dried fish, almost always caught with nets, a lot minnow-sized. Wild game by snare or locally produced smoothbore muzzleloaders. Larger game gets thinned out pretty quick around villages due to overhunting, smaller stuff like porcupines and giant rats are incidental freebies, catch 'em when you find 'em. Same thing with songbird nestlings. Pretty sure mudfish fall into that same category too.
Typical meal is heavy on starch, served with palm-nut or peanut oil and lots of peppers, with just scraps of animal protein. What animal protein there is is typically stewed into oblivion.
So I have eaten mudfish, I recall seeing the heads in the soups, can't tell you what they taste like though, sorta insipid and slimy IIRC.
Best of meal of all was dried tuna from the coast, with okra, peppers (uber hot) in peanut oil soup, poured over fermented cornmeal paste. Heck, I'd buy it now if they sold it around here.
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Retired cat herder.
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Subsistence agriculture, done by hand, they grow stuff or herd stuff.
That mattock they were digging with is the primary soil cultivation tool.
Corn, sorghum and millet for grains. Tomato, peppers, okra, mangos, bananas and oranges for fruits. Cassava, taro and yams for root crops. Peanuts for legumes. Cattle, sheep, goats, chickens and eggs for animal protein. That's most of whats eaten every day plus whatever the bush provides.
Giant land snails, impaled on sticks and dried. Dried fish, almost always caught with nets, a lot minnow-sized. Wild game by snare or locally produced smoothbore muzzleloaders. Larger game gets thinned out pretty quick around villages due to overhunting, smaller stuff like porcupines and giant rats are incidental freebies, catch 'em when you find 'em. Same thing with songbird nestlings. Pretty sure mudfish fall into that same category too.
Typical meal is heavy on starch, served with palm-nut or peanut oil and lots of peppers, with just scraps of animal protein. What animal protein there is is typically stewed into oblivion.
So I have eaten mudfish, I recall seeing the heads in the soups, can't tell you what they taste like though, sorta insipid and slimy IIRC.
Best of meal of all was dried tuna from the coast, with okra, peppers (uber hot) in peanut oil soup, poured over fermented cornmeal paste. Heck, I'd buy it now if they sold it around here.
Birdwatcher Well, yeehaw.... 40M years of human evolution, and hundreds of thousands of years head start on Western culture gets you that.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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That's a fish story that's gonna be tough to top.
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What's the difference in a mudfish and mudshark.....
I'd probably eat a mudfish if I was starving....
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Only equivalent I can think of in the arid northwest are spade foot toads. They can endure several dry years underground in the desert and come rolling out if there's a heavy midsummer thunder storm. Have found them several feet down with no idea of how they got there to begin with.
No record of them being eaten though.
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I was just setting here thinking of all the different ways I have caught fish... some I could name... and some are better forgotten, but I can honestly say I've never dug one up.
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Well, yeehaw.... 40M years of human evolution, and hundreds of thousands of years head start on Western culture gets you that. How much of that do you take credit for, personally?
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At least they'll work for their food over there.
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At least they'll work for their food over there. Africans as a group have nothing but disdain for American Black ghetto culture. For them being "Black" doesn't confer anything, everybody is Black over there. What ethnic group you belong too matters a whole lot more, and I say "ethnic group" rather than "tribe", because when you have 14 million Ashantis, that ain't a tribe thats an ethnic group. Birdwatcher
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Well, yeehaw.... 40M years of human evolution, and hundreds of thousands of years head start on Western culture gets you that.
Kinda reminds me of digging clams at low tide in the mud flat behind the house.
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Only equivalent I can think of in the arid northwest are spade foot toads. They can endure several dry years underground in the desert and come rolling out if there's a heavy midsummer thunder storm. Have found them several feet down with no idea of how they got there to begin with.
No record of them being eaten though. Spring of '98 out by Beaty's Butte they came out in the 100's of thousands. For miles the ground was swarming with them (along the West Rd). Didn't eat any. Did learn a valuable lesson that spring, up towards Catlow, when driving along a desert two-track and you see a duck swimming ahead of you, STOP, and backup!
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