National Catfish Day 2021
One of those southern delicacies for which I've cultivated a taste over the years is the catfish.Not having scales, it is an "unclean" animal in accordance with the levitical food laws and as such is not intended for consumption.
HOWEVER, over the course of my entire life I have seen many a locally caught catfish fall victim to a cleaning ... even to the point of seeing them gutted and skinned swimming in the basin of water into which they were accumulating during the process.
Then there is that final disposition of a good dredging in corn meal and a deep fat frying til golden brown.
I tell you, if Levitical food laws were a sin against the soul instead of that sin against health they are I would likely be headed straight for the lake of fire given the innumerable catfish I've consumed with hush puppies, cole slaw, french fries, and sweet tea.
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At any rate ... I eat them along with many other people out there and it's simply a fact of life that a scaless bottom feeder would eventually end up as a food item. Perhaps the evil corrupt democrats should take note less we start dressing them and dredging them in cornmeal as well.
Heck. I don't think their nasty carcasses would be tasty at all regardless of how much corn meal you dredge them in before deep frying. Besides, they're all likely too dirty to ever become adequately clean.