wwh, we're making a valliant effort of keeping this turkey going.

I've never heard of eating coot shingles, or maybe shingles à la coot, but we have a traditional shad planking here in Virginia where shad are nailed to a plank, smoked, and then eaten. I don't believe Virginians eat the planks.

Speaking of Ben Franklin, I remember having read that he invented a device for getting items off high shelves. You wouldn't happen to know the name of that device, would you?

Lusty Ben sometimes used it to Store Richard's Alamanc on the uppermost shelf of his library.

Best regards,
WobbleWobble