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Originally Posted by stevej37
^^^ Box is the best. 
Snapper is tough. |
You may be right, never had box, snapper is on a lot of menu's in South Jersey. a little hardboiled egg and sprinkle of sherry.
There is a small lake in Cape May Point called Lilly lake. It's a popular place to ice skate in the winter or feed the ducks and geese or fish spring and summer. When I was a kid my mother and I would go from time to time. One time, there weren't many ducks geese as usual, I saw a few dead ones at the waters edge and I could see a few small groups here and there at different spot around the edge so I walked around trying to get closer so I could feed them.
I got to one spot where there was a little clearing down to the waters edge. I saw what appeared to be a big rock. It was a turtle, I was maybe ten or twelve so I am sure it wasn't as big as I remember but it was huge. I went back up the bank to where my mother could see me and began calling her to come see, this caught the attention of a man who lived in a house across the street who also came over.
He grabbed a stick and put it in front of the turtles beak, it chomped down like a vice. He drug it up out of the bank and onto the street. He asked if we would keep an eye on it while he ran across the street? He came back with a gaff. He said the turtle had been wreaking havoc on the ducks and geese eating the eggs and swimming up under them biting off their feet they would then drown. He said they have been trying to catch it for weeks.
I asked what he was going to do with it? He said make soup. He then gaffed it in the neck and dragged back to his house.
Every time I have snapper soup I think of that day.