Does Joel Furr like fish?
No. He hates fish. When he was a kid, he used to eat Fish Filet sandwiches from McDonald’s with great satisfaction. This all changed when he had two bad encounters with fish which forever traumatized him. First, at the age of six or so, he happened one summer to be at the house of relatives in Florida who served up a big batch of fried mullet for dinner one night. It looked fairly nasty — big platters of fried fish with bones and stuff sticking out — and smelled worse. Joel didn’t want to eat any, but nothing else had been cooked for dinner. Squeamishly, Joel ate a few bites, then decided hunger was preferable to eating mullet. Unfortunately, even the few bites he ate were a few bites too many. Joel developed debilitating nausea and a king-hell case of the hives which lasted for a week or so, the result of massive and previously unknown food allergies to mullet. It turned him off on eating fish in general. Second, while visiting relatives in North Carolina a year or two later, he wen
