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Sometimes out in the Gulf, nothing was biting but pufferfish and roleypoleys.
Even a cat won't eat a roleypoley but it turns out the puffers(toadfish) are pretty tasty. Something on the inside is poisonous but if you filet them without gutting them you don't get into it. Don't quote me it's what my parents said.
I have no idea if it's related to Japanese puffers and we have several varieties of them.
Pufferfish are like mushrooms, some will kill you others wont, thus the excitement!
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Even a cat won't eat a roleypoley
I resemble that remark, so I had to look up Roleypoley and all I could come up with was a giant sea bug and possibly the worst song ever! We should consider a thread elsewhere listing what we think are the worst songs ever, in each catagorry, and explain our judgement. You were worned!
roleypoley fish heads This version is much moar... Oh CARP, the software wouldnt let me post this as an edit to last version! TAT
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In Japan, fugu chefs have to be well-trained and then licensed, because so many people eating badly-prepared puffer fish die from the neurotoxin. They say you know you've found a good chef when you just get the tingles after eating it.
I love sea bass. salmon. and pollack. We get a lot of Alaskan pollack in California because it hasn't all been fished out yet. Shrimp is a big favorite, too. We used to be able to find spiny lobster when diving, but they are pretty rare now. Last one I caught was decades ago, and I caught it on a line fishing from a jetty!
In Japan, fugu chefs have to be well-trained and then licensed, because so many people eating badly-prepared puffer fish die from the neurotoxin. They say you know you've found a good chef when you just get the tingles after eating it.
Yeah well, let em train in the kitchens of Steve Bannon and Roger Stone. Foods that bite you back are Franken-foodz.
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Whatever I end up having for dinner tonight, there will be biochar in my pepper grinder!
Dairy farmer finds biochar boosts cow health. It seems clear that Black Food Matters, but presentation counts, so maybe biochar should not be added while cooking, except for black rice, but sprinkled on top mixed with pepper. Who would notice?
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It was a lucky accident of sorts for dairy producer Aaron Smith.
A broken bag of biochar inside his barn allowed his cows to sample the powdery black charcoal when it spread on the floor near the feeder.
“As we were sweeping it up, the cows all came over and next thing you know, two or three of them were actually eating mouthfuls of it, which I had not expected,†said Smith, the owner of Don-Mair Farms near Mount Hope, Ont. “I thought the palatability of it would probably deter them from doing it, but actually one by one they would all get a mouthful of it and walk away and go stand off to the side chewing on it like they were chewing on dirt out in the pasture,†said Smith.
“We observed that it was the recently fresh cows that were consuming it by the mouthful.â€
Smith operates a 75-head milking herd of purebred registered Holsteins on his 500-acre dairy farm.
He recently completed a one-year trial where activated charcoal was used in his calf starter and dairy ration. He recounted the results during a recent webinar about activated charcoal and herd health in Canada.
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More recently its environmental benefits have been discovered because cows that eat biochar produce less methane.
Studies have also found that when added to animal feed, initially as a colourant, biochar allows animals to recover more quickly from illness, with less need for antibiotics. Dairy cattle also produce more milk and the barns smell better.
Armed with this knowledge, Smith conducted a trial with his Holsteins. “I put two and two together that if it’s a full pass-through product, it’s kind of like getting double bang for your buck. It’s like dumping a bag of charcoal out in your field, but first it goes through the cows. So it helps their gut and promotes overall better health by pulling toxins out of their system.â€
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Roleypoley was a local name, also called cigarfish and snakefish. It's trash fish and I don't know the real name. It isn't one of those either. After they bite, they spin and twist up your line hence roleypoleys.
This is reasonable as domestic cats are derived from Egyptian desert cats. Fish are, however, considered excellent for sport fishing. Just ask my irritable neighbor who was not amused by one of our notorious predators fishing in her Coy pond! This was only after she, the cat, had depleted the entire extended neighborhood of Chipmunks, her favorite! Some neighbors, who were gardeners, approved of this carnage as Chipmunks dig out and eat their bulbs. Still Chipmunks have positive PR and some want them around. They are starting to return to our yard, 10 years later. Trudy was a Calico, a breed that former Att Gen Ashcroft considered demonic, and had the secret service scout area for Calicos before his appearances. Chipmunks would agree with Ashcroft! All that Trudy wouldnt eat was the stomach and intestines that contained veggies. Cougars also eschew deer stomachs filled with salad.
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Red beans and rice, not black, but at least brown, with Andouille sausage. I did consider using black rice but it didnt fit the sudden schedule, and it would have hidden the red and green Christmas colors. I added a healthy dose of live collards, the only thing left alive in the veggie garden. Collards like other greens are even sweeter after the gentle kiss of the frost eat your heart out folks without that winter gardening pleasure and advantage! These particular Collard plants are now two years old. I planted new ones in the spring but some dastardly Vegan bugs ate all my bedding plants. I rushed around looking for more plants but they were sold out.. Considering a year without collards, I figured my only chance was to encourage the remaining plants, they usually live through winter here now, to produce more leaves. The plants had spring fever and were blooming very enthusiastically, thinking that it would be their only chance to breed and sow wild oats. Every sprout, and there were hundreds, had clusters of bright yellow flowers but had stopped growing leaves. I pruned all the flowers, which are delicious eaten right in the garden or used like any other green. They kept trying to flower but I purrsisted in deflowering them. I fed them high nitrogen lawn fertilizer, without weed killer, that was leftover from when I used to feed the lawn. High nitrogen encourages leaf growth, and I didnt want more Potassium or Phosphate as they already had good root systems, and were not going to produce fruit. They came back with lush growth, but instead of being upright as usual, they crawled snakelike all around the plot putting out more collards than I could eat, and they are still going strong. I think I will try to get another year out of them, with severe contraception!
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This was only after she, the cat, had depleted the entire extended neighborhood of Chipmunks, her favorite! Some neighbors, who were gardeners, approved of this carnage as Chipmunks dig out and eat their bulbs. Still Chipmunks have positive PR and some want them around. They are starting to return to our yard, 10 years later. Trudy was a Calico, a breed that former Att Gen Ashcroft considered demonic, and had the secret service scout area for Calicos before his appearances. Chipmunks would agree with Ashcroft!