Hi Everyone, Today is the first day I have been back online since before the 17th of March. I'm here in the warm tropical climate of Puerto Rico. I'm in the mountains where the cool nights are heaven sent. The reason I'm answering now for St.Patricks Day is due to the festivities they have here on the island for Easter. Just about the time of the 17th, my father in-law, who owns a vegetable market ordered in his shipment of Bacalo.Anyone who is familiar with any culture that uses this knows what I am talking about.Bacalo is salted pollack.It may come as filet or in small packages. Needless to say, what we had to deal with was by no means small. My father in-law is known island wide for his bacalo as well as his prices and the fact that someone will cut it right there for you. Each case or carton is 50 lbs.We had over 230 cases of salted bacalo, that's 11,500 lbs.Plus 50 cases of the filet which are 40 lb. each, that's another 2,000 lbs.And then there's the gaspé.That also comes in 50 LB cases but because of the expense of it he doesn't get to much, only about 5 cases.So,the total amount of fish is 13,750 lbs,give or take a few because we also had the small packages, it comes with no bones in the packages. We cut, wrapped and bagged all this fish starting before St.Patricks Day and ending on Saturday, March 26, the day before Easter. I have no idea how to spell it, but they call the dish that they makes Escabeche.It is absolutely delicious. It lasts for a number of days in a sealed container.Anyway,we sell the fish imported from Canada for this. It's cut with machetes and believe me it is quite tiring (I was bagging it) I'm glad it's over. So, to all, I hope you had a very Happy St.Patrick's Day. And I hope you all had your favorite eats and drinks as well. Now I have to go thru the tons of e-mails. Denise in Puerto Rico Searching my families.. Craven /McKeegan /Gouin(Guynn) /Bertrand /Johnson /Tiernan/ Morrison /Ryan /Murray