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I am planning on going tonight.

You?

What's the Addy.

I miss an old fashioned smelt fry.

Lenten meal here is usually soup.

BMT

Sac County Fairgrounds

K

Gonna miss it.
LOL

Back in the 50's (probably started sooner!), the entire Harmony (no "town", just a scattered gathering of families) community would go down on the creek (Town Creek?) and set hooks and noodle. Saturday afternoon, the entire community would gather and have a huge fish fry!
Woodrow Wall was the "cook". I can still see Woodrow tending his two huge cast iron kettles under the post oak trees.
The women would bring him paper sacks filled with mealed fish which he would carefully add to the boiling cauldrons on hog lard!
Inside the community center, long tables filled with cole slaw, fries, hushpuppies, catsup, tartar sauce, pickles, onions and whatever else someone thought would go with fish.
The west wall was another set of tables filled with desserts! Pies, cakes, brownies, cookies and just about any type cobbler you could think of.

Fill your plate and take it out to Woodrow! He would load it (if there was any room left) with fresh, piping hot fried fish!

Didn't take long to be able to identify Aunt Maggie's hush puppies! Delicious!
Aunt Mamie's blackberry cobbler was almost better than Woodrow's fish!
As long as there was fish, Woodrow would seine piping hot, floating fish onto your plate.

Woodrow was soft spoken and very kind to kids. Quick to smile and laugh as he tended his kettles.
Only after Woodrow passed did I find out that he was a WWII vet with a Bronze Star w/oak leaf cluster.

Friday fish fries used to be dirt common around here, year round.

Several good restaurants did it for decades, and went through 3-500 pound every Friday. More during lent.

After covid, the AYCE went away.
And never came back.
Those places also closed.
Now we have to drive 20 miles to get a good Friday fish meal, it's not AYCE, and not as good.


I won't go to the church fries.
We aren't catholic, and the crowds suck.
Not into standing in line for a half hour,
then trying to find a seat in a room jammed with tablee. 300 people long done eating, but still there, competitively telling lies about their 78 grandchildren.

All the fire departments around here quit having then. One about 35 minutes north still does and theirs is all pre-made stuff warmed up, no horrible but not great either. Church about 10 minutes away makes everything from scratch and their dinner is spectacular, but they usually sell out before 5 so you can't really plan on it.

When I lived in Western NY, lots of places seemed to have them, local dive bar had the best. Had a choice of baked, battered, breaded, or a different kind of crush up chips as coating. Salt and vinegar chip coating was my favorite.

I love fried fish. Add white beans , fried taters, and slaw.

Ballsack Fairgrounds

lol

Wabster

Get UR self an air fryer

Fish filets of UR choice

Bread 'em...toss 'em the fryer.....add some fries & slaw

Simple.......that what us rural peeps in America do

Fug that fast food sh____________

My problem is having ones that aren't all-you-can-eat, but don't advertise as such.

I prefer fish sticks.

Probably some primo fresh catch of the day in Iowa…. Frozen tilapia 🥴

I will be going to one the 16th of March, put on by our local volunteer fire department. An outfit called "King Kat" will do the cooking. Owned by a local man, He has catered all over Arkansas, and has made several trips to Washington to cater for the House. Arkansas used to be a big player in farm raised catfish, until several years ago feed prices skyrocketed and lots of people went bankrupt. Lots of acreage went back to corn, soybeans and rice. miles

Are they anything like calf fries?

Cowlitz River might have enough of a return to have a couple of dipping openers this year. Might have to dig out the nets.

We've got a big propane burner and will get it out several times a year and fry up what we've caught and/or frozen. Oni9n rings and fried squash rounds are nice additions.