Don't be (or eat) a sucker
I just got this hot advisory from the Oregon Health Authority. Due to pollution, they've lowered the recommended number of times a month you should eat fish caught in the Columbia Slough.
Such a disappointment. I was hoping to eat whole body largescale sucker out of the Slough multiple times over the course of the next month, as I have for many years as a holiday tradition...
Only kidding! No problem, dudes! I wouldn't eat any sea creature that's come closer to that body of water than the refrigerator case in the Costco warehouse. But thanks for the heads-up, just the same.
If I may add another health tip regarding the Slough: Avoid the brown trout.
They are actually rainbow trout. The brown color comes from, oh, use your imagination.
ReplyDeleteThose are not trout.
DeleteJack I think that was a joke.
DeleteDidn’t they have a lot of Vietnamese immigrants back in the day eating fish caught in the slough, so they were forced to put up signs saying not to eat fish caught there?
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember something like that. I can’t imagine a native Portlander that is unaware of the danger of “whatever” lurks in there. I probably wouldn’t eat anything out of The Willamette past about Albany.
Yeah, I suppose there are some people who might not know any better. But man, to tell them it's okay to eat it twice a month?
ReplyDeleteDon’t knock it until you try it. I don’t care what they say, I am going to feast on the mighty sucker fish as much as I can. Or until I get very ill.
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