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 <bob.morgen@intransa.com> 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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