http://dianacooks.com/2008/07/23/consider-the-eel/ Food & recipes for an autoimmune disease-free life Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dianacooks.com/2008/07/23/consider-the-eel/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Jenna Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:23:37 +0000 http://dianacooks.com/?p=166#comment-440 Sadly, I have no idea who won the battle: my great grandfather or the eels. He was a very very nice man and I couldn't picture him killing anything so, I have a feeling, the eels ended up in the river. Sadly, I have no idea who won the battle: my great grandfather or the eels. He was a very very nice man and I couldn’t picture him killing anything so, I have a feeling, the eels ended up in the river.

]]> http://dianacooks.com/2008/07/23/consider-the-eel/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Diana Burrell Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:27:24 +0000 http://dianacooks.com/?p=166#comment-438 What a great story, Jenna. Haa, those suckers are hard to kill. I watched Gordon Ramsay try to handle one once; even he struggled. What a great story, Jenna. Haa, those suckers are hard to kill. I watched Gordon Ramsay try to handle one once; even he struggled.

]]> http://dianacooks.com/2008/07/23/consider-the-eel/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Jenna Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:15:16 +0000 http://dianacooks.com/?p=166#comment-437 When my grandmother was a kid, her dad (who was a cross between a mad scientist, a poet, and a the world's biggest practical joker) once came home with a squiggling squirming paper bag full of live eels. He went to hand them to my great grandmother Daisy -- at which point she looked at him like he was crazy, took the kids out to dinner, and left my great grandfather (quite literally) holding the bag. When my grandmother was a kid, her dad (who was a cross between a mad scientist, a poet, and a the world’s biggest practical joker) once came home with a squiggling squirming paper bag full of live eels. He went to hand them to my great grandmother Daisy — at which point she looked at him like he was crazy, took the kids out to dinner, and left my great grandfather (quite literally) holding the bag.

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