National Catfish Day 2020

Catfish. The unclean bottom feeding delicacy inhabiting the local ponds and rivers of South Carolina. Banned in the Levitical food laws, yet a staple fish included in my diet for as long as I can remember.

Luckily, violation of the Levitical food laws are not sins against the soul ... just sins against the health.

Yes, being both a scavenger and a fish without scales we are not supposed to eat catfish.

However, when you grow up on great masses of squealers and catfish fillets it's easy to overlook that which is not for consumption and eat them up with great gusto.

There are wild caught as well as farm raised catfish. Regardless of the source they remain scaleless bottom feeding scavengers and therefore are still unclean according to Leviticus.

Today is National Catfish Day. It's a national observance designed to bring attention to the farm raised catfish. It was declared by President Ronald Reagan to be held each June 25, 1987.