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Old Posted May 3, 2013, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker View Post


It was destroyed for me the first time I tasted Manitoba pickerell (sp?). That fish is delicious. Turned cod into haddock for me... but you can't admit that here.

My father (my parents taught on a northern Manitoba reserve to experience the north after they retired, went for 6 months and stayed 3.5 years) still gets his friends up there to send pickerell down to him. Just for badness, he hands it out to friends here telling them it's cod. And all they say is, "Best cod I ever tasted!", etc.

It's been years now, he still hasn't told them the difference, he's still doing it. He enjoys watching them too much.
That's funny. Several better restaurants in K-W now serve pickerel and it is fabulous - you just try not to think about the fact that it's so fresh because it was swimming in Lake Erie the day before!
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