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[HONDO74]

Dinner starts with a bowl of snapper soup,

Haven't had any snapper soup yet, they say it is delicious. Do you catch your own snappers. ??

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Dinner starts with a bowl of snapper soup,

Haven't had any snapper soup yet, they say it is delicious. Do you catch your own snappers. ??

If it's on the menu, I will have some - a little sherry sprinkled on top is a delight for the taste buds!

One of the family relatives did catch his own when I was a lad - had his own pond on the farm....

[Roy]

...main course of sauerbraten with rotekohl and buttered spaetzle with Sacher torte for desert...

And, then back to the veranda with brandy and good conversation into the evening hours

You're making me hungry, you know!

[robert.]

I cleaned snappers one summer. while Working in a restaurant. That was the worst job i ever had. An old guy would sell them to us dead. He would catch them. Then let them swim in his tanks. He feed them corn to flush out the system. I had to scold them and clean off pieces of meat. Their bons are knife blade sharp. Their meat is sticky to the touch.

P.S. most restaurants now use turkey for their "snapper " meat.

[rogruth]

P.S. most restaurants now use turkey for their "snapper " meat.

Really? Is this legal?

[HONDO74]

How to make snapping turtle soup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCfLPtttW2U

[Graphic] Soft Shell Turtle {Catch Clean Cook} Turtle Soup n' Dumplins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdgVwYt3iKY

[robert.]

Yes. (Well maybe) how many weddings are in Italian wedding soup? Snappers are getting hard to find (for sale). Snapper soup is all about the thick heavy base. If you drop hot dogs in it would still taste like snapper soup. Plus how many old guys are left to catch these things. One summer night i sat along side a creek with some buddies and a few beers. We had nasty chicken wings that had sat in the sun for 2 days. They were used to bait a snapper. Run a hook through a wing and toss into the creek. Drink beer and wait. reeling in a snapping turtle is like reeling in a mud flap with 4 legs. Every once in a while it will grab hold of something and go forward. Then you reel a little more. He walks a little more. This will go on for awhile. You wont tire that turtle out. You need to get him off the creek floor so he can't grab on. Once you get him to the surface you grab the hook with long pliers. Pull the hook from the chicken wing and let him have it. When he has that wing in his mouth he won't let go. noway nohow.

[rogruth]

Do they use turkey in place of turtle also since most turtles are protected now?

[HONDO74]

[rogruth]

I ask again. How can this be legal?
Oh well, almost anything seems to be acceptable today.
I guess I am just too old to understand some of this.
I used to tell my kids "You don't have to understand it, just accept it".
I guess I need to listen to myself.

[Tom Dempsey]

Wouldn't it be okay if they just referred to it as Mock Turtle Soup?

[robert.]

Read the back of juice bottles. There is more apple juice in grape juice then grapes

[Roy]

P.S. most restaurants now use turkey for their "snapper " meat.

Really? Is this legal?

This all reminds me of "The Freshman", with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando. Brando played a gangster in the biz of providing rare and endangered species for dinner.

[rogruth]

P.S. most restaurants now use turkey for their "snapper " meat.

Really? Is this legal?

This all reminds me of "The Freshman", with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando. Brando played a gangster in the biz of providing rare and endangered species for dinner.

Except Brando was a cop that was out to break up the exotic animal trade.

[Roy]

This all reminds me of "The Freshman", with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando. Brando played a gangster in the biz of providing rare and endangered species for dinner.

Except Brando was a cop that was out to break up the exotic animal trade.

I think we're talking two different movies, Roger. I don't know which one you're talking about. "The Freshman" was a comedy based on "The Godfather".