LTH North Lunch Group Capt. Porky's - 8/25 - 12:00pm

Please Note Date & Time Change

It's been way too long since we've visited Dino and devoured his awesome seafood. Please join me on the 25th. As always, bring a friend.

Captain Porky's
38995 Route 41
Wadsworth, IL 60083
847-360-7460
https://www.captainporky.com/

Dave148 - Esteemed Coordinator - LTH North Lunch Group
JoelF + 1
Cathy2 + 1
EddieK - avoiding pests
jnm123 - craving for fried blue gill.
JennyIL
Katie
LHS
WillG
Tom

It's a fave, but a significant travel time. I don't think I can slot it between meetings, but put me as tentative, my afternoon meeting has a chance of being cancelled....

Oh new date & time? Count two of us in.

No parks. No bicycle groups. Just sit and eat at the Captain! Yeah, I am in.

I will likely be a little late, so I will go along with the flow with whatever the group wants.

Cathy

Cathy2 wrote:No parks. No bicycle groups. Just sit and eat at the Captain! Yeah, I am in.

I was planning on inviting my RV club. Is that okay?

=R=

What, no mosquitos? Dave, you're mellowing in your old age.

Count me in to again sail the high seas with Captain Porky.

I'll be back in town for a couple weeks before heading out again for 2 months, so I'm going to try and make this one. I have been eating a lot of Maine native shrimp--which are very small & delectable--but the jumbos beckon, and I also have a craving for fried blue gill.

90% sure I will be out of town. Had lunch at the captain's yesterday and they were doing brisk business. Lots of bicycle riders.....carbo loading I guess. Fried shrimp were as good as ever, though the roll for the poboy was very disappointing. Excellent lemony greens for a side. Took home some hot links that were good and some tips that were just ok.

Y'all have fun.

-Will

I am going to plan on attending.

I am tentative too; facing a big work deadline around then.

I plan on attending.

Hmm... As I look at our cast of characters I see we have:
LHS is also known as Mary Ann, hopefully, Katie, an obvious Ginger, Captain Porky as the Skipper, and of course the lovely and talented Dave, as the lovable Gilligan. The rest of us can sort out the roles of the Professor and Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Howell III. I think we have a show!

Come sing it with me:
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Abord this tiny ship
The mate was a mighty sailin' man
The skipper brave and sure
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour
A three hour tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMDRnpZxd3o

Looking more likely now so pencil me in as a probable.

-Will

I am very likely coming with my Mom.

My friend, Tom, will join us. It will be his first time at an LTH event, be gentle with him.

EddieK wrote:My friend, Tom, will join us. It will be his first time at an LTH event, be gentle with him.

Geez Louise, you make us sound like 'Lord Of The Flies'...

I mean, we're not all like the EC.

jnm123 wrote:

EddieK wrote:My friend, Tom, will join us. It will be his first time at an LTH event, be gentle with him.

Geez Louise, you make us sound like 'Lord Of The Flies'...

I mean, we're not all like the EC.

Great company and lunch today. Interesting conversation. I felt that we were gentle with Tom. Hopefully he’ll join us at future events.

What were the food highlights? I should go to Capt Porky's someday, seeing as I only live about a mile away.

tjr wrote:What were the food highlights?

From the event reminder, I too was curious if endless bowls of beans were involved...

Willkat98 wrote:

tjr wrote:What were the food highlights?

From the event reminder, I too was curious if endless bowls of beans were involved...

I don’t believe any beans met our lips at lunch. I had a lunch consisting of sausage and catfish.

Guessing that since no one raved -- or provided any details at all -- the food wasn't particularly notable?

=R=

HI,

Everyone ordered their own meal with very little sharing.

I ordered a pound of shrimp, garlic potatoes, greens and some cornbread. I ate some then brought the rest home to my parents who devored the shrimp.

I tried some smelt, too, from LHS. It's been a few years since I had any, so that was fun.

Regards,
Cathy2

Understood if some are curious at the non-sharing bent the group has taken, as opposed to the family-style gatherings in the past. Here's my take on it.

Cap't Porky's ain't cheap, and singularly with seafood it seems that likes/dislikes seem to be magnified. Certainly, this group has a varied & wide palate, but still...

And, not to be discounted, Covid & its remnants continues to play a part in this practice--it's fine to get together & commune, but not to share food--which might be an overreaction, but who knows?

I was perfectly happy ordering my fried blue gill, steak fries, greens & baked beans. (I did offer a small fillet to Joel, who was surprised that he liked it.) My affinity for blue gill goes back to a childhood memory of some long-forgotten family retreat in central Wisconsin, where we caught crappie & blue gill by day and ate the tiny fillets by night. There's a strange, almost-metallic taste of blue gill that to me is more comforting than offputting--I know, weird.

The baked beans, Ron--are almost Big Ed's worthy--that's the gold standard in my book. And I believe Eddie & newcomer Tom had some as well. Very odd that they were served in small, plastic tubs...and COLD. Still pretty darn good.

Not a big fan of the greens, kinda sorry I ordered them--they aren't the South Side version. (Didn't Hecky's have some righteous greens?)

But in the end, the company's the thing. With this motley (in a good way) crew, life diversity, experience & intelligence are the common thread, always leading to great, unique topics that get discussed until they die of their own volition.

Kind of a Cromie Circle in the bizarro world. Enjoyed it a lot, as I always do.

I wasn't so much surprised that I liked it, but that I liked it as much as fried perch. It's been decades since I'd had any bluegill, and they were larger.

The smelts, on the other hand, were a little fishy-tasting.

Jumbo shrimp were, as always, awesome, but I swear not as jumbo as they used to be.