Monday, January 30, 2012

Jovial/Enormous

At Whole Foods on Saturday, this jovial fellow was showing off the enormous halibut he was about to fillet. Halibut always reminds me of the summer of 1976, which I spent as a medical student doing an externship under the guidance of a family doc in Machias, Maine. It is a small town on the coast not far from the Canadian border, about as distant and foreign in anyway one can conceive from Brooklyn, New York, where I'd been living and going to medical school. I was boarding in a room over Joyce's Lobster House. My boyfriend (now husband of 32 years) came up to visit me. He had been born and brought up on the East Side of Manhattan in an Irish blue collar neighborhood, so this was exotic territory for him, too. We had dinner at the Joyce's the second night he was there. He ordered the hal-i-but. The formidable Joyce stalked out of the kitchen and announced to him, "Hawl'but? You don't want the hawl'but." I can't remember what Joyce told him that he wanted...but that's what he had.

Camera: iPhone 4s Processing: Hipstamatic, Dynamic Light, PhotoToaster

11 comments:

  1. Great Story, but she was just pulling his leg - Just for the Halibut!

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  2. Fun story and nice photo. Halibut is one of my favorite foods, but they sure are ugly.

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  3. I enjoyed your story as well as this processing. The smile on the butcher's face makes me so want to shop in that store! Looks like a day brightener!

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  4. Great image and story...reminded me of a documentary film I once saw of a fish market in (I think) Seattle where the guys had a whale of a time throwing fish to each other etc etc...was a motivational film about teamwork and having fun at work

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  5. Hi Bobbi,
    Great story, thanks for sharing. That's one big fish. Have a great day!

    Sherrie

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  6. Wow - what a whopper! Great picture; he looks so proud of it!

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  7. Beautiful story, Bobbie! I love that you got this gentleman to pose for you. I hope to get braver, during this process, and get a few more stranger/street portraits!

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  8. Fun processing and what a smile! I guess he really did get the big one!

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  9. He looks proud enough to have caught it. Fun image and great story!

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