subject: My Florida Mullet Man Adventure! Mullet, A Great 100 Calorie Food at 100 Calories For 3 Oz.! by:Susie Trimble [print this page] Yang!Yang!Yang! Howdy y'all to all my 100 calorie peeps. I had an adventure last fall that I just had to share with you! As you get to know me, you'll find I have many adventures. This wonderful day was a real bonafide Florida adventure. Here's what happened:
I found myself driving along a rural highway in East Tampa. You know the kind with boiled peanut stands, free kitten signs, strawberry fields, junkyards.
Anyway, I'm enjoying the drive when all of a sudden I spot an old decrepit hand painted sign "advertising" Fresh Mullet 1.40#. My heart leaped and was filled with joy as I recall long lazy summer days by the pool with the wonderful smell of smoked mullet wafting through the air. The anticipation of smoked mullet, smoked fish dip, Grandpa's hushpuppies and Grandma's potato salad dances in my soul.
I tell my mom, "Hey Mom I just saw a sign for fresh mullet!" And having lived in Florida going on 70 years, she replies, "Yeh, but how fresh?" Then my son Roy, having lived in Florida 16 years says, "I can tell how fresh they are!" And let me tell you it was on!
So the next challenge was to find a place to turn around. Roy keeps hollering turn here, turn here, turn here because he likes to tell me how to drive (more tales of that will be forthcoming in the near future). So anyway, I find a place to turn around not knowing there were potholes the size of small countries.
After maneuvering around the potholes and getting turned around, we finally find my (precious) mullet sign. We turn in and find ourselves on a winding Florida Cracker dirt road under a canopy of beautiful old stately oak trees with Spanish moss swaying from the trees like old gray beards. The first thing we see is a Rebel flag displayed proudly in front of an old trailer, no trespassing signs everywhere.
Every so often we see an old board with "Mullet" painted on it with an arrow showing us the way. And then there it is, my Mecca, "Mullet Here" on a mullet shaped mailbox!
Well, about this time I start getting some protests from my passengers. Roy shouts, "Don't pull in here, we might get shot!" But alas, I can't see getting this far without getting my mullet. I'm not going to let a little "ambience" get in my way.
As we pull up to, for lack of better words, "Mullet Man's Shop", we are greeted by four of the happiest barking dogs I have ever seen. These five dogs struck me as odd because I have never known anyone to own five such different looking dogs. These redneck dogs were obviously mutts, there was a large brown and white curly haired one, a big fat black one, a tan one with a black tail and then a little bitty gray one.
Anyway, we are greeted by a loud, "Dogs, shut up already!" Mullet Man is about 50 years old, tall and burly, with a shaved head and a long grey beard. I begin this most interesting encounter with "Uh, I'm here about some mullet" and Mullet Man says, "Darlin', you're in the right place!"
Mullet Man leads us over to this big gigantic ice chest and he unceremoniously takes the top off. And to my wondering eyes appear, a whole mess of silver mullet on ice! Since I will be smoking the little suckers, I ask Mullet Man to get me six big ones.
He takes a large flat shovel and commences to start diggin' for me. As I see a mullet I want, I scream "Oh, he's a great big one, I want him!" Mullet Man says sure, but it's a girl and she's so fresh she was swimming' this morning. I inquire as to if she'll have roe, but Mullet Man says that's not until October.
Mullet Man is so patient with me and I finally have my six beautiful, wonderful silver mullet. Mullet Man weighs them and the total is $18.15. Roy gives him a twenty and tells him to keep the change.
You would have thought we gave him a $100 tip, he was that happy! As Roy pulls our cooler out of the truck (just lucky we had a cooler with us) Mullet Man says, "Hey, since y'all was so nice, I'll give you some free ice." Mullet Man just happens to have a top of the line, new looking commercial ice maker. "Traded it for an old boat I had," he explains.
As our adventure is about to come to a close, Mullet Man says, "Hey, you want a free watermelon?" And what happened next was so interesting to me because this is the year 2008. He opens yet another cooler full of a variety of produce; watermelons, potatoes, tomatoes and onions. As he hands Roy the watermelon he says that farmers come from all around to trade mullet for their produce! How cool, I thought!
As we get in the truck to leave, Mullet Man says, "Come visit me again when you see the mullet sign, name's Buckshot."
As we wind back to the main highway, we begin planning our Smoked Mullet Party. Believe me, you haven't lived until you've had a down home Smoked Mullet Party! Mullet is a delicious and nutritious food at only 100 calories for 3 oz.
I'll be writing about our down home smoked mullet party with special 100 calorie recipes. Look for it soon!
About the author
Susie Trimble and her sister, Tammy Trimble, developed and co-wrote The 100 Calorie Diet and Food Counter for people who love to eat. It's easy! Eat anything you want in 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500+ and still lose weight. Visit her at http://www.The100CalorieDiet.com
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