MMMMmmm.......
Bears Love Snapper Soup!!!
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OK---Everybody Duck---Another "Bear Story" coming!!!!
Back in the "60s" I used to catch Snappers, & sometimes shoot them.
There were a couple Restaurants in my area that made Awesome "Snapper Soup".
They were paying 75 cents a pound for frozen Snapper bodies, from a distributor.
They would give me $1.50 a pound for snappers ---Live Weight (including the shells), because they made better soup.
I had to bring them in the back door, because they really weren't allowed to use wild ones.
I remember the one Head Cook told me he wanted them alive, at least slightly, so he'd know it wasn't dead long.
So the next one I caught, I took it there in the back of my truck, in a big washtub. It was 28 pounds. Then when I got to the restaurant, I put a rope around his neck, & walked him in the back door, like a Dog. I yelled over to the Head Cook, "Is this one Live enough for you???"
Got me $42 for that Turtle!!
That doesn't sound like much now, but back then a gallon of Regular Gas was 28 cents!!
Ah, The good old days. LOL
Bear