On 9/6/2013 1:16 PM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:03:22 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 9/6/2013 12:09 PM, Oren wrote:
On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:22:46 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Did you pull out the drain pan? They are easily forgotten and can get
nasty

Exactly. Especially in units in the 50's - 60's. Areas with high
humidity. After cleaning the pan, Mom would add about 1/3 cup of
bleach in the pan that seemed to reduce any lingering smell.

Another nasty smell came from fish, Black Mullet. Due to the mercury
content the fish would not freeze completely and eventually was able
to rot in the freezer. Folks would salt cure the fish in an wooden
barrel before they had refrigerators.


If someone ate a lot of the poisonous mercury containing Black Mullet,
wouldn't that person pop their top if they got too hot or angry? O_o

TDD


chuckle

I presume folks didn't know about the mercury or dangers back then. As
a kid we played with mercury from T-stats, it never harmed me (twitch,
twitch, twitch).

Silver Mullet have even a higher content of mercury.

A man in Collier County, Fl was acquitted of illegal fishing for BM.
His lawyer persuaded they jury that a mullet was a fowl. Every time
it jumped from the water, it was trying to fly!

Mullet do have a gizzard, like a chicken.


I thought it was the oil contained in fish that acted like a natural
antifreeze? O_o I like chicken in my gizzard too! ^_^

TDD