I grew up near the site of the Schuylkill Hotel! A consultation with my siblings revealed that we all ate catfish waffles at a local parish benefit dinner we were dragged to when we were 8, 11, and 14. The consensus seems to be the waffle was the being the best part. Thank you for the memory!
I'm surprised to learn that people are still eating catfish and waffles! It's one of those fundraising dishes I thought had been consigned to the distant past, like possum and persimmon beer.
This was a while ago and the parish school is now high-end apartments. It was a predominately Italian immigrant Catholic church and the cat fish and waffles sat next to spaghetti, lasagna and beef in gravy. Don't remember which pan emptied first but there was always a lot of beer flowing.
I grew up near the site of the Schuylkill Hotel! A consultation with my siblings revealed that we all ate catfish waffles at a local parish benefit dinner we were dragged to when we were 8, 11, and 14. The consensus seems to be the waffle was the being the best part. Thank you for the memory!
I'm surprised to learn that people are still eating catfish and waffles! It's one of those fundraising dishes I thought had been consigned to the distant past, like possum and persimmon beer.
This was a while ago and the parish school is now high-end apartments. It was a predominately Italian immigrant Catholic church and the cat fish and waffles sat next to spaghetti, lasagna and beef in gravy. Don't remember which pan emptied first but there was always a lot of beer flowing.