[OldDave]

Gracie, that is hysterical. I know that old joke, but had no idea someone had actually posted it on food.com. That site, by the way, is where I get most of my recipe ideas.

On a slightly yuckier note. My grandmother didn't believe in wasting anything, as a good Arkansas farm wife. She would can carp, bones and all. The idea, like salmon, is the bones are then edible. I can still remember, with a shiver, rows of mason jars with gray, slimmy looking fish parts in them. Never did have the nerve to try eating them. Don't know if she liked them, but she always had a cheek full of snuff, so I seriously doubt she'd been able to taste anything in a few decades.