Re: How many of you eat carp?
Living in the midwest I have had the occaision to see things that I had not grown up with.
One of them being folkes eating carp (oh HECK NO, NOT ME!). :shock:
As hide hunter describes ,preparation is every thing.
There is a local fellow just north of Kansas City that has a restaraunt and every time that he has a "Carp Fry" his place is standing room only. These are not cold water carp, they are all caught in warm water.
So there must be somthing to it.
Also some of my co-workers were raving about "Smoked carp" (retch ) the other day.
I do not advocate any of the activities or promote any of the same.(Hack,cough,yuck) :lol:
p.s I have not tasted carp, I just cant get past childhood training.
Re: How many of you eat carp?
Mato
I have heard that they are really good smoked like how ?bassman? stated.
I will try almost anything once.
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lol.. amazing the cultural (and geographical) differences isn't it?
Friend of mine from Mississippi has the usual disdain for carp.
Him, "It's horrible and boney and nasty and ... (I've cleaned this up considerably for this audience).
Me, "Ever try it?"
"Nope, ain't going to either."
So, in the classic "set-up" I asked him to help me with a fish fry. I always fry up a mess of bluegill and crappie when he's here. I cut through some scored pieces of carp steak and trimmed the skin, so they were about the size of a bluegill fillet. I had some breaded up and as soon as the grease got hot I dropped them in. Never said a word about what they were - just dropped them on the towels to cool and started another batch. As soon as they cooled a little I grabbed a piece and, of course, he did too. He knew immediately they weren't crappie or bluegill (let's not get stupid here) but he said, "that's not crappie - it's good but it's not crappie."
I made myself busy with the grease and he ate a couple more pieces. Finally he pinned me down and I had to tell him it was carp. Didn't know how he was going to react. Dang southerners can be testy. ;) :lol:
He reached over - got another piece and started eating. Course I had to say, "Thought you didn't like carp?"
His answer? "That ain't carp" - and I'm not sure I ever fully convinced him that it was. :lol:
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Gonna have a carp casserole tonight. :D
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My son worked for several years in the czech republic and he was surprised to find out that cooked carp was the traditional Christmas fare. He said there were carp vendors on street corners where live carp were kept in large tanks. People would buy them take them home in a garbage bag with a little bit of water in it and store the fish in the bathtub until christmas morning. Carp on christmas was kinda like ham or turkey over here.
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I can't believe that Joe Tess's place is still around. I grew up in the big "O" and remember going there with my folks. If I recall correctly the food was quite good.
My grandfather out in central Nebraska used to smoke and can carp. I remember helping him catch them when the river level was low. We used pitch forks. No catch and release back then.
Kevin
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When I was a boy, a fellow down the way had a homemade refrigerator smoker, and would put any fish you brought him, if you caught him when he was smoking a load. I have eaten carp , rock bass, sunfish, pickeral, northern pike, perch, walleye, smallmouth, largemouth, and suckers. A overnight ride in that old fridge could make anything edible. Hate to think of the mercury, and PCBs I likely injested. :shock:
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Carp and Pike, cook, add some matzoh meal and voila its Gefilte fish, a cultural neessity ;)
jed
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Originally Posted by HideHunter
lol.. amazing the cultural (and geographical) differences isn't it?
<snip> Dang southerners can be testy. ;) :lol:
You just don't know how testy they can be. :shock:
And that ain't just a bunch of carp, either :lol:
Down here carp are a traditional form of fertilizer. When I was young, we were taught that removing all carp caught was good conservation. Things are changing, but there are still a lot of carp being hauled off to be eaten months later as corn-on-the-cob. When corn is planted in hills, I have heard that a number of people will use from 1 or 2 pounds up to 5 pounds of carp per hill, if it is available. (Note that most people who plant corn in hills now are planting only smallish patches, not acres.) If carp started bringing in tourist who bought our disgustly expensive nonresident fishing licenses, then carp would probably start getting better protection in the form of bag limits etc...
Ed
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Sorry to say that I've never tried carp as table fare, mostly because my carp have come out of some pretty nasty water. If I could get a few carp out of a nice, clear, cold lake or stream, I might experiment a bit. Maybe :? . 8T :D