Fish Boils Off Topic

Nothing to do with sandwiches, but I sure do love that shade of blue. And the trays they have at the Viking is are v cool, speckled and stiff like melamine. This is a classic Door County fish boil dinner and you haven’t lived till you’ve eaten one. That’s a little strong. Let me put it this way. If you have a thing for puddles of melted butter, you haven’t lived until you’ve been to a fish boil.

This is how they do it. This is called the boil off. It involves kerosene.

These particular pies were evocative in the case and that was enough. In every other quality they left something essential to be desired. We packed them up between two ridged-edge, floppity, summertime paper plates and carried them home, optimistic that they would taste good once our appetites waxed. Along the way they were flattened, compressed, reduced. Maybe they were sat upon, or gripped firmly, and so they took up very little space in the garbage bag.