cleanin’ a cat

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Well. . . So much for light-hearted fun!

Ah, fart in a shopping mall and someone is sure to be offended. Someone will say everyone does it. Someone will make up a story about how it just doesn’t happen.

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Shouldnt you guys be fishing instead of talking about eating pussy cats.

oh man,

now look what you did to the best post ever.

For anyone and everyone, my two cents can’t stress enough that this is what private messages are for.

James handed me quite the lesson a long time ago about how the written word is easily and often misunderstood. In the spirit of humor, things are said literally but intended to be…………almost animated. They are meant to be taken in an unrealistic fashion………..such is humor………….but can only be stated in so many ways………..and the interpretation is up to the reader who knows little, if anything about the poster.

Turtle, welcome to the site, we’re glad you like it! We do have a pretty special place here and part of that preservation is keeping personal attacks constricted to the private messaging system. JC’s a nice guy and a pretty darn smart one. To ask him privately protects and keeps the integrities of both parties in tact.

We’re all people here………..we’ll all cross lines, make mistakes, and fart in shopping malls. But, how we choose to deal with those challenges plays a large role in the results we obtain.

There…………..now y’all can tell me to crawl back under my rock………………Peace Out.

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I suppose if you can’t afford a pure-bred standard poodle, then this is the next best thing.
I’ve got a lot of people at work looking in my office wondering what is going on!

Why do people hunt pheasents? — Cats can’t fly.

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Just for the record ….. I enjoy eating a little cat once in a while …. it kinda depends on the mood

Well, hasn’t this just gotten completely out of hand!

When I said, “cultural bias” I was not talking about JC. I was talking about the cultural bias that exists in America against eating cats and dogs. Most US residents, including those of Asian descent, find the practice repulsive. There are Vietnam vets who have been treated to “Ka Li” (Dog Stew) who claimed that it was one of the best meals they’d ever tasted, although some of them turned green and threw up when the found out what it was.

This bias shows on this thread, as it is implicitly assumed that eating cats is a bad thing – it is not. To me, it’s just like Jewish people who think it’s disgusting to eat pork, or Indians who find eating beef offensive. They have their opinion, and so long as they don’t take away my ribs or my steaks, opine on. There is a band that stretches from Thailand to the Korean peninsula in which cats are considered table fare. The people who live there do not look down on people for eating cats, and the practice is not strange to them. This is fact, not opinion or bias.

Oddly, there is even a subculture of fishermen – present on this board – who find it repulsive to eat catfish, preferring the oft-worshipped walleye as their table fare. As Still-a-sheepie can tell you, no fish should be overlooked for its value as good eats.

Hello all ,

This post started out having me in tears laughing and then it went to a little anger at the way it went to far off the path of humor. As you can see I have deleted some of these posts because I do not feel this is how we want our site to comunicate. Please feel free to pm me if you need to.

I cut the fillet off the same as any other fish using an electric knife.
Then cut ribs out
Then skin them the same as you take the skin off a Bass or Walleye
Cut the dark line out from the skin side of the fillet
Make sure you get all of the dark belly meat off
Large Fat Cats soak in ice water a bit and you can pull some of the yellow fat off
If you do all the above right the Mississippi River cats are just as good as commercial
Pond raised Catfish.

Hey Jim…you did a little digg’en to find this post! Even though there were some posts that had to be deleted (which I never did see) this is my favorite post. I think there were many a kleenx use while going through this thread.

I’ve never heard of cleaning a cat like that before. But it sounds slick. Since I’ve been asking alot of questions and reading alot, I notice that everyone says they are very tasty. I’m bending a bit and might have to try a little flathead this year.

So, would you rather have flat or channel given a choice?

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Even though there were some posts that had to be deleted (which I never did see) this is my favorite post.

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………oh the memories……

Brian
I haven’t eaten many flats, but they are like chicken. I get my chicks at the hen house LOL..I like Channel better, but if it’s fish I will eat it.
Now for the best way to cook it.
JIM’S CAJUN FISH BREADING
2 Cups Flour
2 cups Corn Meal
1 tablespoon of the following
Paprika
Black Pepper
Garlic Powder
Start with one tablespoon and add for taste
Cajun Seasoning (I like spice time/cheap with good flavor and not very hot)
Lemon Pepper (Very good on salads too)
If you can find it 1 1/2 Teaspoons Cavenders Greek Seasoning
Put in large bowl and mix well
Put some in a large zip lock bag add fish cut in pieces shake and take out by hand put in deep fryer basket.
Do a few pieces taste and add lemon pepper and Cajun seasoning to taste. Also if you need more salt use seasoning salt. Not HOT you can feed it to little kids. The Cajun seasoning I sprinkle on French Cut beans for flavor.
JIM

Thanks Jim,

You’re making me hungry! Real hungry! I think we need to talk to Mr. H20 about a recipe area. They are sprinkle throughout the threads. Just takes too long to find them.

I hope they don’t all taste chicken, it’s to easy to go to KFC!

What about size (for channels)? I would guess that it’s up to personal taste.
Thanks again!

Jake, I take it you didn’t see Gator Hunters post to you?

Brian,
That recipe section is a super idea. I fillet and cook all my fish about the same way. I do Bullheads just like Cat. I do real well taking the skin off with my electric knife. The only thing I use a fillet knife for is taking Y-bones out of Northern. As far as Cat size the smaller ones are better and the larger ones should be left to breed larger ones.
If you want potatoes to go with your fish I have a way to do that too.
Wash a few Idaho Russet potatoes
Use a garnishing knife to slice them in approximately 1/16” slices ( a garnishing knife looks like a small meat cleaver and will cut them wavy like wavy chips)
Let set in a container of cold water for one half to one hour
Rinse well to get starch off of them
Cook them in the same oil AFTER you cook the fish (They will pick up the flavor of the spices in your fish breading).
Most people like the potatoes better than the fish.
JIM

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Jake, I take it you didn’t see Gator Hunters post to you?

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which “gator hunter” do you speak of??

I used to skin mine but now i just fillet them like all the scale fish. If you still want to skin them i just cut all the way around the head and peel the skin back with pliers that have good teeth on them, cleaning the teeth occasionally for keeping a good grip on the skin. I was skinning my catfish then filleting them then i just went to filleting them sliding the knife between the skin and meat leaving a little flesh attached to the area right above the tail so i could fillet.

My recipe is half yellow corn meal and half flour adding some of your favorite snack crackers rolled out finely too the mixture if wanted, mine is chicken in a biskit crackers. I dry my fillets on a paper towel then dip in a mixture of milk, chive and onion chip dip, dried onion chips or flakes with finely chopped chives added to this mixture plus added lemon juice at this time if wanted, to hold the meal and flour mixture to the fillet. I season the dip, flour and meal breading with onion powder, lemon pepper with coarse ground black pepper for texture. I then salt with coarse salt after deepfrying because the salt will cut the cooking oil if used during frying. Im a deep frying method fan of frying my fish so I heat my oil to just a little shy of very hot, I use sunflower or peanut oil, and fry until golden brown. I take the remaining chive and onion chip dip and add coarse chopped long green onions to this and put over the golden brown fillets smothering them from end to end with it. I squeeze a little lemon juice over the fillets. I serve deep fried potato weges rolled in only yellow cornmeal along side the filletes,…Serve hot!

Dan
That sounds very good for variety. I forgot to say use peanut oil. I found it to be the cheapest at Sam’s Club.
JIM

STOP IT!!
I just finished eating something the call hamberger…read your post and my mouth’s watering!

I’m going to have to start printing these out, ’cause I’ll never find them when I need them!

Jake…that’s Crocodile Hunter…we don’t have one of them on this site…keep working on it though!

Hey Brian and Jim, how about some fresh steamed asparagus, young carrots or cabbage with real butter to go along with it? Sounds good dosen’t it, heck ya buddy

Hey Jim, your recipe sounds good too.

I know I have my colesteral pills around here someplace!

Your going to need it for this recipe Brian.
This was the first way I had ever eatin a cat fish. My buddy cooked this up on the banks of the st louis river.
Take about a 5# cat skin and cut cross ways for steaks.
Place in a large pan. (cake pan or like)
Add chopped onion
asparagus
mushrooms
celery
butter 1 stick
salt pepper
season salt or cajun seasoning
Place on top of coals.
Drink cold beer and catch more fish until done.

We also had a couple of seasonal items that could be used with this also.
In the spring of the year fiddleheads could be used in place of or with the asparagus. Fiddle heads are young ferns that have just popped up out of the ground. Young need to get them before they start to unwind.
Mid to late summer corn was good to add into this. Cut the cobs in half or thirds and throw in the pan. Or leave the husks on and throw under the pan into the fire. Good both ways.

Mike that sounds very good.
JIM