Jon - Thanks for the antidotal anecdote to my own anecdote.
Mary is a more strict vegetarian than I, up to fish... she eats fish but does not expect me to procure or prepare them for her. I have seen crayfish in the ponding areas on the Rio Grande near my home... I sometimes consider capturing a few to live in my pond, but they probably won't make it into a Jambalaya (nor crawfish pie, me oh my oh). - Steve On 8/24/20 1:24 PM, jon zingale wrote: > For most of my life, my father has lived two blocks from Lake Erie, and like > any Great Lakes raised rust-belter, I was raised with a healthy fear of > large bodies of water (and the alien lifeforms beneath the surface). This > fear was only exacerbated when at the age of 3 or 4 my mother and stepfather > thought it would be funny to have me bathe with the lobster we would cook > for dinner that night. To this day, I still have a very difficult time > entering a lake or river. Then in 2006, while living between New Orleans and > Houma Lousiana, my feeling began to change. In the week leading up to Mardi > Gras, small barrooms offer pots of gumbo and jambalaya, and eventually, > Louisiana cooking swayed my palette (and psyche) to the fish-side. Shortly > after, I found myself hitchhiking and camping around the country with the > money I had saved from a medical secretary job a year before. At a 7-11 > outside of Steamboat Springs, I flagged a ride that landed me in Portland > Oregon, where I immediately found work dishwashing at a Sushi restaurant on > Gladstone. With a bottomless miso bowl full of hot sake above the dish pit, > I developed a taste for sushi by grifting the remains left by wealthy > Portland patrons. While sushi isn't my favorite food, I can appreciate it. > Surprisingly, over the last few days, I have had an overwhelming hankering > for lobster. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/