All hail Dee, the researcher par excellence!
What about Opakapaka – another great fish we had in Maui?
On 10/8/07, Dianne Ellsworth wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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:
>
> > 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:
> > >
> > > 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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