In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chris potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Perch is regularly available in the supermarket's in Spain and a local >high quality Dutch restaurant makes a speciality of it, and very good >it is too.I live in an area famous for its eels, the baby eels born in >fresh water are a particular delicacy. I have yet to try these. Chris.KP
Baby eels are born in the Sargasso sea, unless someone has found a way of making daddy and mummy eels do their stuff in a pond. The elver fishers are out around here in force at the moment. In Spanish supermarkets there now seems to be a good trade in mock elver, or "gulas" as they are called. Presumably this is a contraction of the Spanish word for elver, which currently escapes me but is something like anguilla, which is Latin for eel. They're made of the same stuff as crab sticks, being basically reprocessed fish finger. They do, however, taste quite good and look quite like an elver. Unlike elvers, however, they are palindromic in the sense that they are the same in both directions. They don't have eyes. Wassail! -- Martin E Phillips http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk Homebrewing, black pudding, boats, morris dancing, ham radio and more! The Gloucester-Sharpness canal web page http://www.glos-sharpness.org.uk
