Posted on 08/04/2007 10:22:08 AM PDT by PackerBoy
I need some culinary shopping help.
I am sponsoring a member of our military through www.AdoptaPlatoon.com. When you sponsor a service member, you commit to write to them weekly, and send a "care package" every month. (My guy is in Baghdad and has a laptop PC with Internet access, so we get to exchange emails several times a week!)
Any, I have recently learned that he yearns for "Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce" and I am trying to surpise him for his upcoming birthday with a shipment of them.
The problem is that I cannot find anyone that carries this item, even through Brunswick apparently makes and sells a version. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would very much appreciate it.
BTW, AdoptaPlatoon is a first rate organization and I highly recommend supporting it. I have found my participation very rewarding because I am connecting on a personal level with someone serving our Country in the war.
aka Sardines in Louisiana Hot Sauce
Should ship quite well.
STEAKS! Not sticks. They are yummy.
I'm pinging Allegra to the threat because if anyone knows where to get some fresh fish in Baghdad, it's her.
Best of luck.
If you talk to the company they’ll probably send you/him/his platoon a whole CASE gratis!!!!!
The manufacturer is Brunswick. Here’s how you can find a store near you:
http://www.bumblebee.com/contact.jsp?pg=intro
Know where I can get 'em?
According to this webpage at the company, these are genuine American products:
Fresh from the cold Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Maine, the day's catch is taken rapidly by company ship to one of the two modern BEACH CLIFF packing plants in Maine....
In the packing room, sardine size herring are packed four to twelve fish per can. Larger fish become BEACH CLIFF Fish Steaks and fillets. Regardless of size or product, every single can is packed by hand - over 65,000,000 cans a year! No machine has ever been invented that could match the speed, skill and care of our Maine packers.
a different brand: http://www.shopbettys.com/detail.aspx?ID=300
Brunswick has a home page and there is a link where you can find out where to buy them.
http://www.brunswick.ca/brunswick/usaenglish/product_mainpage.asp
You might consider writing them and telling them your story. You never know.
That’s the sort of stuff Big Lots has. Did you look there?
They are pretty good, too, if you like sardines, kippered snacks, etc.
Canned fish is OK to ship here. I order tuna and anchovies (yeah, I like them....I know almost everyone else hates 'em...LOL) from www.netgrocer.com and all goes well.
I have eaten fresh fish here in the past (mazqouf), but they're recommending we don't do that in the summer since it comes out of the Tigris.
Check the grocery store, there should be several brands offered.
Thanks to all who offered help!. I will try a couple more stores locally, including Big Lots.
**Freeper Kitchen Ping**
Yum! I love those things. And the cat has learned not to beg and meow for them.
I recommend Emeril’s “Bayou Blast” seasoning for “Twigs de Poisson.”
When I was overseas, we always enjoyed getting what we called “geek food” — weird stuff that we would dare people to eat. I suggest you send him some Pickled Pigs Lips. Hmmm, good. You can order them at http://simplycajun.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=145
Of course I can see you being real popular no matter what meal you chose to partake of.
After all what's more important than what one eats and drinks is whom one is eating and drinking with.
I see our TNR friend Beauchamp has now been quite thoroughly discredited.
I've got a twenty that says when he gets back to the States his 'fiance' is nowhere to be found.
Any takers?
L
bump4later
About pickled pig’s lips, I forgot to tell you how they are to be eaten: 1) take a small bag of unopened potato chips and crush them, 2) open the bag and drop a pig’s lip inside, 3) close the bag and shake it to coat the pig’s lip with potato chip crumbs, 4) retrieve the pig’s lip and chow down!
I have to agree about shipping canned fish to a 110 degree environment.
Didn’t think about hot trucks. Send the hot sauce anyway!
Agh! I had a Mexican butcher challenge me to eat pickled pig skin with hot sauce last week. I gagged it down.
My local “Dollar Stores” carry them.
They are real good and have a good strong hot sauce kick to them. They are low fat and high protein. I even drink all the hot sauce from the can.
And they are cheap too. Sometimes like 6 cans for four bucks. Made from fresh Maine and Canadian sardines and mackeral.
Canned fish is completely safe in Texas and Louisiana, where the temperature is only 10 or 15 degrees cooler. And it's going to be a whole lot safer than 'fresh caught' from the Tigris River, sold in an open market.
Look for small, oblong cans in the canned fish aisle. They should have it in hot sauce, oil, and perhaps one other style. They will be small fillet sections, just pop the top and start eating. I take out the backbone, but it is edible if you want a little calcium.
Thanks,
L
I tried to look at adoptaplatoon and it’s actually a .org site. Here is the link if anyone is interested! Good luck with shipping the fish!
Thanks,
L
ya beat me to it!
That’s a great Maine company!
Ms.B
It certainly likes it from the company story on its webpages:
The BEACH CLIFF Story - Proudly Made in the USA
The BEACH CLIFF brand has been part of the canned sardine and herring industry in Maine for many years.
The Maine sardine industry had its real beginning as a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. At that time, the U.S. supply of the very popular oil-fried canned French sardine became increasingly difficult and expensive to obtain. A few enterprising American businessmen recognized a plentiful source of raw material in eastern Maine and began to can a Maine sardine that was recognized as an equally flavorful canned fish - rivaling the imported French variety. Once the first cannery opened in Maine in 1873, others soon appeared and an important coastal industry was born.
In 1927 Cal Stinson Sr., an experienced entrepreneur in the Maine fishing industry, knowing the superior source of protein in sardines and herring, and aware of the growing market demand for this quality seafood, founded the original Stinson Seafood plant in Prospect Harbor, Maine. Over the years, Stinson grew through its commitment to quality and innovation to become the largest packer of canned sardines and herring not only in Maine, but also in the entire USA. BEACH CLIFF grew along with Stinson to become America’s favorite brand of sardines and Fish Steaks.
In 2000, the BEACH CLIFF brand and its packing facilities in Prospect Harbor and Bath, Maine were acquired by the world’s largest sardine company, Connors Bros. Income Fund. The Maine tradition of quality continues in BEACH CLIFF. BEACH CLIFF is the largest brand of sardines and Fish Steaks in the USA today.
I agree with your thoughts on heat and canned food. In 1967 we were eating C rations packed in 1944, and stored out in the tropical sun. Tasted as good as you would expect C’s to taste. Proper canning seems to survive most anything.
You sweet talker, you! {blush}
I see our TNR friend Beauchamp has now been quite thoroughly discredited.
I've got a twenty that says when he gets back to the States his 'fiance' is nowhere to be found.
I hadn't thought of that angle. I like it. It would serve the lad right and could perhaps teach him a valuable lesson in his overall growing experience, should he choose to pay attention.
They come in spring water, mustard sauce, tomato sauce, and my fav?...Kippers ( smoked sardines).
Here is the site:
http://www.brunswick.ca/brunswick/canadaenglish/mainpage.asp
I hope you can order some of these, they are absolutely super!
The scummy little dog has served his purpose. She'll drop him like a hot rock.
It'll go something like this:
"Oh Scott, I don't know what it is, but you've changed somehow. I just don't think I can spend time with someone who's a trained killer and participated in that illegal and immoral war over there."
Or it will be the classic kiss of death:
"It's not you, it's me. But I still want to be friends!"
13 days left, eh? You're a real short-timer now.
Wherever you're going have fun.
L
Yes! It can't come soon enough! Only a little over a week before I start making my way out of this country.
Wherever you're going have fun.
Just a short break to London and other parts of England to cool out, see some shows and hang out with my sister who lives there.
I speak the language and all.
Err...that would be both languages spoken in the UK these days.
Masala'ama! :)
Can’t help ya, but I commend your efforts to keep your soldier’s spirits up!
How about sending him some Fish Jerky and a bottle of Louisiana Hot Sauce?
http://store.smokedmeats.com/smsaje6oz.html
Smoked Salmon jerky is awesome. :)
Thank you H.G.
Remind me, next time we have a recipe thread, to ask if anyone has a good receipt for homemade Caesar Dressing. I am supposed to consume flax seed oil, and I’m also supposed to avoid soybean oil, so am hoping to make the Caesar Dressing myself with the preferred kind of oil.
Thanks again,
Joya
I hope you’ll let us know how it turns out - how your soldier likes the fish and sauce, how the platoon likes it, etc.
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