On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:50:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:


I've been to Bob Chin's. Occasionally my daughter in Chicago will Fed-X
some king crab legs from Chin's down here for us to enjoy.

My favorite Chicago area, albeit on the *far* south end, was Phil Smidt's in
Hammond. They had all you could eat walleye, perch and frog legs. It was a
little on the pricey side, but in my prime I could get my moneys worth. The
last time I was there was during my last Chicago visit three years ago. The
non-AUCE entries were more reasonable in price. The frog legs were of the
smallish variety. I preferred them saut?ed and the walleye/perch broiled.

Never went there, but they do a piece about it in the papers now and
then. My brother lives in Lansing, and used to live in Hammond.
Never tried frog legs, either. Had turtle once when gramps cleaned a
big snapper I caught. Yep, tasted like chicken. Maybe better.
I was bank fishing in the brush, had a little bullhead dangling over
the water. My reel had tangled as I brought it in and I was clearing
that and noticed the snapper reaching up trying to get the bullhead.
I put it in his reach and he took it. Only turtle I ever caught.
He was about a foot across.
There was a frog leg place called the Kickapoo Inn on 79th and South
Chicago, but I never went in.

This you probably won't believe. I like a very small touch, just a hint of
catsup with the walleye or frog legs. I don't slather the stuff all over.
While on fishing trip into Canada many years ago with some guys I worked
with I broke out my personal bottle of catsup during shore lunch, walleye of
course. They thought I was crazy. Most who tried it thought it was a nice
complement to the fish.

I never eat ketchup, even with fries, but some people even put it on
their eggs. Had a hillbilly friend who was married to a Pollack that
was from the same village as my Pollack, and he sliced tomatoes onto
his eggs. Tried it myself one day at their house and it was good.
But I never did it again. Lot of that is just habit, and mine is
bacon or pork sausage and hash browns with my eggs.
And good rye toast.
Reminds me. When I was doing heavy work every Saturday morning
my wife would fry me a pound of bacon and a dozen eggs, and toast
me about 10 slices of Polish rye.
Still can't believe I ate all that, but it was normal then. I don't
eat more than 5 eggs and 1/2 lb of bacon at a sitting now, and
that only happens about once a month.

When I went to find the URL for the place I came up with the following:

http://tinyurl.com/68vzfs

Damn, one more reason not to go back to the Windy City again.

Think that closing was the last article I saw. I was thinking it had
closed. You're right though. I grew up on the south side and spent
much of my adulthood on the north side, but even though it's only a
half hour trip I've been in Chicago once in the past 7 years, a couple
months ago just to do some passport stuff with my wife.
Too many damn yuppies. I still think about taking a spin in to have a
couple beers at Resi's Beer Stube and talk to the Kraut U-boat guys,
but they're probably all dead now.

Long live the walleye....

And the mighty Lake Perch!

--Vic