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Remudamom
04-02-2008, 09:00 PM
I am not into lying. I tell the children the only time you lie is when you are protecting someone's life. If someone would break into the house, grab me, and ask if anyone else is in the house, I will not say "Yes so and so is in the kitchen, and the others are blah blah blah." I would say "No, I'm alone" and hope the others get out or whatever.

That said, I'm ready to break my rule. A young married couple rents one of the ranch houses, and tonight when they paid the rent they brought over a ziploc bag of catfish, big bag. I asked them to come eat it with us but they declined. Hmm.

When I opened the bag, nasty fish smell flooded the house. I held my nose and cooked a batch anyway, but we couldn't gag it down. I spit out my first bite in the kitchen, took some up to Hub to try, and barely got the back door open fast enough for him.

The boys were hooting and hollering, one of them wondered what we would tell them about the fish dinner and out of my mouth came "Lie through your teeth and tell em it was good."

I just don't want to hurt their feelings, maybe they won't ask. Please don't let them ask.

Karin
04-02-2008, 09:21 PM
Catfish is the first fish I ever ate that I loathed:glare:. Not sure what to tell you, since my policy on lying is the same as yours. :)

Doran
04-02-2008, 09:30 PM
Couldn't you still be honest but gracious? Tell them how much you appreciate their thoughtfulness but that, "Honestly, it was a bit too fishy for our tastes." Because, truly, if you tell them you liked it, they may bring you more. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/sick007.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)


'Course, you could always feed it to your chickens!"

Doran

WTMindy
04-02-2008, 09:52 PM
Couldn't you still be honest but gracious? Tell them how much you appreciate their thoughtfulness but that, "Honestly, it was a bit too fishy for our tastes." Because, truly, if you tell them you liked it, they may bring you more. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/sick007.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)


'Course, you could always feed it to your chickens!"

Doran

:iagree:That is what I would say, too.

Laurie4b
04-02-2008, 10:34 PM
That sounds like it was spoiled fish. Fresh catfish is not super fishy, nor does it smell bad. I've both cooked it caught fresh by a foster son and eaten it at restaurants. When our foster son caught it, I realized that the expression "There is more than one way to skin a cat" is not about kitties. It's about trying to get the daggone skin off the fish. I think we finally nailed the head to a tree and pulled it off with pliers. Whatever. It doesn't stink. I'm glad you couldn't choke it down because you probably would have gotten food poisoning.

Remudamom
04-02-2008, 10:53 PM
Dh thinks it was just a tad spoiled too. I've cooked catfish before and haven't had that problem.

I can still smell it.