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Wisconsin fish fry is the best! Another great issue of Smart Mouth making me hungry ;-)

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I'm glad you're enjoying it!

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Fantastic! I wrote & recorded a six-part history of the Milwaukee Fish Fry for WMSE radio in 2010 and used this Mel Waiters song and some obscure punk song as the series theme songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYHr02dM8A

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That sounds amazing - link it! Also, this song is so fun and this comment cracked me up: "My Second Wife Loved to Fry Fish Danny but She would Always Use too much Spice

but She was Born in Louisiana."

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Sadly, lost to the community radio airwaves. But there is a bit of a deeper connection to Great Lakes Catholics and prohibition...

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Oh, bummer.

Yeah, I bet there are all kinds of twists and turns!

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