Isn't Wahoo a search engine for fish?
-Bob
On 10/9/07, Herb Blumstein wrote:
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> All hail Dee, the researcher par excellence!
> What about Opakapaka – another great fish we had in Maui?
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> On 10/8/07, Dianne Ellsworth wrote:
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> > Well, I am very impressed by all the due diligence here in the matter
> > of Ono vs. Ono. Here's some more ephemera I ran across after a quick visit
> > to the Web:* *
> >
> > "Acanthocybium solandri
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> > Choice eating fish with white, delicate, flaky meat. The Hawaiian word
> > for "delicious" is *`ono*. *Ono* (no `okina, a diacritical mark) is the
> > fish, and *ono* is *`ono*!
> >
> > The ancient Hawaiians said that the ono was the parent of the *`ôpelu*,
> > a mackerel scad, a fish of great importance to the subsistence living of the
> > early Hawaiians.
> >
> > Early European explorers found ono to be plentiful off the island of *
> > O`ahu*. Wahoo, the common mainland name for this fish is thought to
> > originate from the misspelling of *O`ahu *on maps as "Wahoo."
> >
> > This was from some geocities site I ran across.
> >
> > What do y'all think of the possible name attribution for Wahoo?
> >
> > Also, without going in to where I was when I saw the following, I did
> > see a menu the other day from around 1943 advertising "bluefish with butter
> > sauce" for 80 cents! I bet you paid a tad more for you bluefish dish, eh
> > Jeff?
> >
> > Dee
> >
> >
> > —–Original Message—–
> > From: Herb Blumstein
> > Sent: Oct 8, 2007 2:00 PM
> > To: Bob Morgen
> > Cc: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net, Vox <980286c3a15f1c66@moblog.vox.com>,
> > Boogs Sack
> > Subject: Re: BSMA Buxton
> >
> > If Wahoo is Ono (or Oahu fish) in Hawaii – as seems to be the case from
> > the various sites I've plumbed for information – then it definitely doesn' t
> > taste like mackerel, judging from the Ono I ate in Maui – very good. That
> > said, Wahoo is acknowledged to be a "scombrid" fish meaning amember of the
> > Scombridae – the mackerel family, even though its moniker is Anthocybium
> > solanderii – very confusing. Very tasty fish. As for mackerel – if it is
> > fresh and properly prepared (including as sashimi or nigiri) it is also
> > tasty, though some faint of heart landlubbers complain about the strong
> > taste – that fishiness increases with decreasing freshness. Smoked mackerel
> > can be reall y good.
> > Nuff said.
> > Apple uglies are not for diabetics like me – too bad!
> > On 10/7/07, Bob Morgen wrote:
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> > > Looks like mackerel to me!
> > >
> > > I want apple uglies.I looked up the recipe. Basically they are are a
> > > rich sweet bread dough (like raised doughnut dough) filled with apple pie
> > > filling, folded and fried. Then glazed with sugar syrup. This is American
> > > cooking at its finest. I wonder how many QB bought.
> > >
> > > Hush puppies, a nearly perfect food, are corn bread dough with minced
> > > onions, rolled into balls and deep fried.
> > >
> > > -bob
> > >
> > > On 10/8/07, boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net < boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > 7 Oct.
> > > >
> > > > Turns out that this is a holiday weekend so places to stay, clean
> > > > ones, were mostly sold out. Short day today and likely a very long day
> > > > tomorrow. Tall lighthouse here as well as apple uglies.
> > > >
> > > > At 260ft it is the tallest in USA. Or so the ranger said. We climbed
> > > > up for the view.
> > > >
> > > > Herb and Judi references are particularly interesting. An almost
> > > > noncongruent list of names. Both of us are dining on Wahoo this evening.
> > > > See pic.
> > > >
> > > > Also having hush puppies. Are these the same as cornbread except for
> > > > deep frying instead of baking?
> > > >
> > > > Bob. L did indeed try taste but got confused by kipper and defeated
> > > > by New England clam chowder.
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