makes me laugh
Submitted by petermac on Sat, 2013-06-01 23:43
every one is chasing squid and occys these days , seems to me we have a owe lot to the the Italian and Greek immigrant's that came to Australia 40 to 50 years ago and introduced us to those delicacies that would only ever been used for bait not to mention there home made snags and tomato sauce I need some more home made tommy sauce so if there any Italians willing to swap a feed of whiting for tommy sauce out there I am keen I am a ex freo anglo boy from fothergill street and grew up in freo with the Italians my first girl friend was Italian but I was so scared of her dad I couldn't take it further than holding hands with her that was 50 years ago ha ha
trymyluck
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bait/food
Yeah Petermac, I can remember my dad telling me about the Italians "eating their bait" hahI. And now we are all doing the same. Squid has now become normal food , but i think occy is still underrated.
clogwog
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Got to give the italians
Got to give the italians credit, hard working and nice food.
Was taught to squid and fish by the old Italian fellas who use to fish Coogee and
The ammo jetty. They allways seemed to have the time to help you out.
I have'nt eaten much occy but mate give me squid or Cuttlefish, any day.
Geoff78
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In my grandfather's day, he
In my grandfather's day, he used get his bait from the Perth Iceworks. Horrible looking things they were, but made good bait, they called them crayfish.
dodgy
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Haha. I knew some old
Haha. I knew some old Italians that used to use abalone as bait in their craypots.
Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Michael Yoni
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Make it a couple of fillets
Make it a couple of fillets of dhu or baldie and i'll give you two litres of the.sauce for every kg of fillets. And rwill throw in a bottle of hot chilli sauce as.well. made a killer batch this year which we will most likely not finish in time for next. Fothergill just up the road from me.
Edit... Skin on, don't want "south of the river people" giving me kingclip fillets instead and.passing it as dhu. Lol. (Was a NOR until I was forced to emigrate south).
petermac
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tommy sauce
haha no worrys mate if I ever have some "spare Duhie" I will send you a message being that I have only ever caught 1 legal size in my life it might be a while thou
alfred
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Damn. Next thing I know is
Damn. Next thing I know is that I will have competition for the frames, heads and fish eyes!
Michael Yoni
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No probs, you have reminded
No probs, you have reminded me to order the two pigs for end of June.
(Hint) some of the commercial passata sauce is (almost) as good as the home made stuff.