Served with pasta? This reminds me of some yummy clam fritters back in se utah, a bunch of crispy fried clams with a side order of fries and dippin' sauce, could use ketchup, but....tartar sauce was better and of course lemon! Thumbs up and thankin' ya for the COOL Share my beautiful buddy! :)

Joe Serrano I never had it with pasta -- was always on its own. Seemed to need only lemon, really ...

CuteCatFaith Huh?!! And no french fries, remember that yummy british staple, fisn 'n chips,...oh sooooooo gooooood! ;)

Joe Serrano It's fine just plain. I have seen Italian parents with children at restaurants and they sometimes indulged them, let them have a plate of good, homemade fries, and a Coke! Possibly not the best discipline, but I recall some pretty content little kids having a treat! I do like, for example, squid fried with this method, and those can be fun with a tomato dipping sauce -- medium, but the hot right in the middle. We liked that in New York, with fully cooked tomato-y green beans and huge pitchers of heavy wine at Puglia in Little Italy. Jorge Buccio would play and sing and we'd all sing along, a tradition there. Big tables, benches. Then, off to La Bella Ferrara for dessert and fun, fancy coffee! :)

I've never tried smelts. Fresh seafood is a luxury. Tinned sardines are as close as I've been.

😂 idk if she was just starving but the energy was lacking