Maybe it's just me...

[ackotz]

...but how many times must I go to a restaurant and see on the menu "Walleyed Pike"?

I mean, I've only been in this state for 5 years now and when I moved here, I didn't even own a fishing rod. I had never been fishing before! Now it's a religious experience for me...but, where the state fish is the WALLEYE, you'd think the restaurant owners could get it right and keep from embarrassing themselves.
It would be like putting on the menu "Chickened Beef"...

[This message has been edited by ackotz (edited 02-09-2003).]

[Nuclear Fishin]

Your right...it certainly adds to the confusion for people from out of state who don't know what they're ordering. "Pike" is a kicked around term that should not be used in the same sentence with WALLEYE as far as I'm concerned. In Canada they still call walleye "Pickerel" or "Greenbacks" eh!

[IceNutt]

You are quite correct. If they wish to be wrong, they should be correctly wrong and call it a "Walleyed Pike." A Walleyed Pike isn't a "Walleye" and isn't a "Pike" it's a relative of the "Perch" I think I read somewhere that the Guardian Walleyed Pike eat Cucumbers.

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IceNutt

[bass-o-matic]

You think that is bad, I went to a restaurant last year that had an all you can eat fish fry for the special. I asked what kind of fish it was, and the waitress got all excited about the "Fresh Alaskan Walleye"! She obviously didn't have a clue that walleyes are not found in Alaska. Needless to say, our table got a really big laugh about it as soon as she took our order and left!

[ackotz]

...I guess there is something similar to Chickened Beef...Chicken Fried Steak!

[mistermom]

Walleyed Pike? Sounds like a northern with a visual impairment. Actually a northern with walleye like vision would be top of the food chain night and day and lakes would become infested with 100 lb super gators that chomped on things 24/7... Cool!

mm