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Dr_Pain It’s been years since I had a crab boil. Need an armored truck to get a hamper of crab.
So, what’s the going price for crabs and shrimp now days? Just may need to take a day trip and bring a few coolers.
Chef said in USDA Labeling changes:
Dr_Pain It’s been years since I had a crab boil. Need an armored truck to get a hamper of crab.
So, what’s the going price for crabs and shrimp now days? Just may need to take a day trip and bring a few coolers.
I don’t have current pricing but I normally don’t buy anything if prices at more than $3.50/lbs for some 28-22s (but that is because I do have a hook up
) I am sure this year because of the gas prices that it will be more but… I normally buy 50-100lbs, process them and freeze unless I make a shrimp boil.Crab boils are not my favorite. It is too hard to peel them and it is to slow for me to eat them. I’m a big guy so I need a lot of food and I don’t want to take 2 hrs to fill up. If I need to get crabs I go on the road not too far from Tasbasco (Avery island) and just fish them with some turkey necks. It has been YEARS since I have done that. 9 dozen crabs was a lot of processing. Delicious but a LOT of work (more work then I want to do. I believe live Jumbo Blue Point crabs were going for $16/dozen?! I don’t have a connection but we do have a strong Laotian community and do have some friends that can get me some prices. We have a couple of processing plants locally so in your case you may want them already dispatched and packed.
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Pretty sure https://www.crabdynasty.com/ is what I used when I bought a 1/25 bushel here. Was supposed to be me and Austin but I think he was out of work with an illness or something that day so Patrick got to try them out. he wasn’t impressed so I got to eat the vast majority!
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bocephus this is a great point! Walleye is excellent. I’m pretty sure Kansas has northern pike too. Pike is good when the water is cold. I will eat a pike caught ice fishing any day!
Hard to beat fresh blue gills and crappies for me. And living only 15 miles from Lake Superior, I bet you would have thought I would say lake trout or salmon. Do walleye fish and enjoy them, best part are the cheeks, nice little, very flavorful medallions.
hey vegetarians, my food poops on your food!
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Hard to beat fresh blue gills and crappies for me. And living only 15 miles from Lake Superior, I bet you would have thought I would say lake trout or salmon. Do walleye fish and enjoy them, best part are the cheeks, nice little, very flavorful medallions.
kyle I like Gills and Crappies…I just hate to fillet them. In the winter my favorite is yellow perch! Good eating fish.
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Hard to beat fresh blue gills and crappies for me. And living only 15 miles from Lake Superior, I bet you would have thought I would say lake trout or salmon. Do walleye fish and enjoy them, best part are the cheeks, nice little, very flavorful medallions.
kyle I have had the cheeks many times. Very similar to scallops
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bocephus this is a great point! Walleye is excellent. I’m pretty sure Kansas has northern pike too. Pike is good when the water is cold. I will eat a pike caught ice fishing any day!
ND Mike lots of hammer handles here too. They make great pickled fish, helps 2ithe the bones on those smaller ones. You can get some nice fillets off the larger ones.
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I saw this stuff at my local grocer today, doesn’t say it’s cheese.
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kyle I have had the cheeks many times. Very similar to scallops
RON PARRISH My dad used to cut out the cheeks of walleyes and save them for kids. Absolutely no chance of bones.
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ND Mike lots of hammer handles here too. They make great pickled fish, helps 2ithe the bones on those smaller ones. You can get some nice fillets off the larger ones.
YooperDog We used to always throw the hammer handles back, they were fun to catch on light spinning rods, until my dad started pickling fish. We would have a garbage sack in the freezer and just throw them in there whole and when we had enough, I would take them to him and get pickled fish in return, they were great for that.
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I saw this stuff at my local grocer today, doesn’t say it’s cheese.
HerbcoFood dairy free cheese, no thanks. Real meat and real cheese please. Plus living in WI, I would probably be thrown out of my state if I ate fake cheese
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I saw this stuff at my local grocer today, doesn’t say it’s cheese.
HerbcoFood At least it isn’t labeled cheese substitute or something that would make someone think it was cheese.
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HerbcoFood dairy free cheese, no thanks. Real meat and real cheese please. Plus living in WI, I would probably be thrown out of my state if I ate fake cheese
kyle said in USDA Labeling changes:
HerbcoFood dairy free cheese, no thanks. Real meat and real cheese please. Plus living in WI, I would probably be thrown out of my state if I ate fake cheese
Um, yeah.lol
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When buying shrimp I am damn sure to only buy the ones labeled either, “Wild Gulf caught” or “Product of the USA.”
HerbcoFood Although we prefer Wild Gulf shrimp, some of the Wild foreign shrimp seems OK, but not all of it. For certain though, NO FARM RAISED, not even in the good ol USofA.
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RON PARRISH My dad used to cut out the cheeks of walleyes and save them for kids. Absolutely no chance of bones.
bocephus Redfish Throats are great, just about like some crab. Grouper cheeks are just as good. Now the one thing I was never sure of though was fish tongues. When we lived in North Florida there used to be a guy down by the docks in Mayport that would get them & ship them somewhere, said they were a delicacy. I’ll have to take their word on that one.
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YooperDog We used to always throw the hammer handles back, they were fun to catch on light spinning rods, until my dad started pickling fish. We would have a garbage sack in the freezer and just throw them in there whole and when we had enough, I would take them to him and get pickled fish in return, they were great for that.
bocephus said in USDA Labeling changes:
YooperDog We used to always throw the hammer handles back, they were fun to catch on light spinning rods, until my dad started pickling fish. We would have a garbage sack in the freezer and just throw them in there whole and when we had enough, I would take them to him and get pickled fish in return, they were great for that.
In our neck of the woods hammer handles are keepers due to their large numbers, the DNR wants to reduce their population. Pickled pike is a tasty treat.
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bocephus said in USDA Labeling changes:
YooperDog We used to always throw the hammer handles back, they were fun to catch on light spinning rods, until my dad started pickling fish. We would have a garbage sack in the freezer and just throw them in there whole and when we had enough, I would take them to him and get pickled fish in return, they were great for that.
In our neck of the woods hammer handles are keepers due to their large numbers, the DNR wants to reduce their population. Pickled pike is a tasty treat.
YooperDog Pike I have caught & tried, real toothy characters, but tasty, a little bony if I recall. That was some big ones. Are the Hammer Handles the little ones?
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kyle said in USDA Labeling changes:
HerbcoFood dairy free cheese, no thanks. Real meat and real cheese please. Plus living in WI, I would probably be thrown out of my state if I ate fake cheese
Um, yeah.lol
PapaSop That is for sure, WI and not real cheese that would be a sin.
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HerbcoFood At least it isn’t labeled cheese substitute or something that would make someone think it was cheese.
bocephus Yeah, it was also in it’s own section of a cooler with all the other, that isn’t right “foods”.
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bocephus Yeah, it was also in it’s own section of a cooler with all the other, that isn’t right “foods”.
HerbcoFood They should have their own section, far far away from any real food so people don’t get confused.
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