A Minnesotan was going to launch a carp canning company in 1945.
Honestly, the only thing less appetizing than canned fish (except tuna, which we’re all used to) is canned carp, specifically. But if we could get more people to eat it, they wouldn’t have such an easy time competing with game fish.
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That’s my great uncle! Read the full history of the Lakefish Canning Company in Henry Quade’s The Multifaceted Carp: Mankato’s Moment on the Stage.
My goodness, that is so interesting!
People always sneer at carp, but you know, fish sticks have to come from somewhere…
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