re: Mississippi St. 14 @ Ole Miss 26 Final - ABC

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Where area do you live? Yea it’s sad how much of the country no longer has catfish. Most places outside of the southeast switched to the Vietnamese imports of Basa/Swai

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My wife hated catfish until the first time I took her down. She had only ever eaten river catfish and that shite is foul. She had Larry’s and absolutely loves it. She said the fish tastes better and the way it’s breaded is 100x better. I ate river catfish once and I will never make that mistake again.

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It's going to be very interesting to see what transpires over the next week.

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I like Lebby but he needs to make defensive staff changes to stay in the fans good graces. I like the offense and think it will get even better assuming we don’t lose our talented players to the portal. But even in States worst seasons we always had a good defensive line and secondary. It’s pretty much our identity and seeing this crap defense sickens me.

GG dawgs. Y’all played hard and made it a hell of a game. Maybe we will get a new OC and y’all will get a new DC out of the game.

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At least the bookies won

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State had been a beast at losing but covering the spread this season so I guess there’s that

Larry’s has the best fried catfish in the country. I’ve never had a bad piece of fish there

If every restaurant could prepare it like him our sales would double. A lot of restaurants don’t know how to properly cook it. For frying you want 2-3 oz fillets, 3-5 oz is ok too. If you use big fillets you better trim it thin, the “off flavor” taste is held in the fat and bigger fillets have more fat. Small fillets are lean and less likely to carry a muddy or algae taste.

Fry it in peanut oil. That’s the big key. And don’t get the oil too hot, or the fish will be mushy and fall apart

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And Vietnamese fish costs about half what US fish costs

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Yuck. Would rather pay for domestic farm raised or wild caught fish and seafood. Foreign seafood is bullshite

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I might be confused but are you saying you know more about the catfish industry than delta?

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I don't know anythng about what he knows about the catfish industry.

He claims wholesale was $45 a case for him. 2/3oz even.....which is kinda wild. I mean I know a guy who orders about 25 cases of 3-5oz and Steaks per week. He'd dream of filets, 3-5oz, back under $60 wholesale again. 2/3oz......oh mama please. Steaks are $52 a case. Steaks.

He may grow it. He may sell it to the wholesalers. But he clearly doesn't know much about the end cost to the final customer.

Shrugs.

I’m not saying your prices are wrong. My point was the price has come down a lot for the farmer and the processors but the wholesalers/distributors and the retailers/restaurants aren’t lowering prices like they should be. My point was you shouldn’t be paying 90 dollars a case. It should be around 60-70 from Sysco if they’d lower their prices by the same percent that producers have lowered it because I can buy it direct from a processor for around 50. The last case I bought was from Heartland who had a sale to offload inventory and it was 45 bucks a case for 2-3 oz because sales of that size fillet have plummeted

Went to a grocery store recently and saw fresh catfish for 14 dollars a lb. That’s insane. I’m getting 1.05 a lb for my fish, professors sell it for about 4 dollars a lb. Retailers and wholesalers have refused to reduce prices from the Covid hikes because consumers got used to it.