Dining
BY KAREN CHANEY
Cousins Mitch Hall, at left, and Dalton Hall own and operate The Cat sh Hut food trailer.
Three cat sh lets are served with hush puppies and French fries in The Junior basket. ($18.95)
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The Cat sh Hut food trailer fueled by family history When cousins Mitch and Dalton Hall load The Cat sh Hut food trailer, they stock it with all the provisions they need for the day including family recipes passed down through generations. The backstory Junior and Dale decided to close the Cat sh Hut in 1990 after the second time the building was ooded. Over the following 33 years, Junior continued frying sh. “People were constantly asking my dad to do
Junior Hall taught Dalton Hall how to prepare the cat sh and other menu items.
co-owner of the new Cat sh Hut food trailer. What’s on the menu In addition to the cat sh, hushpuppies and French fries, the trailer also has house-made tartar sauce. “This tartar sauce will change your life,” Mitch said. “We’re going to bottle this recipe.” Mitch and Dalton agree that running the food trailer is worth the e ort. “It is continuing the family legacy,” Mitch said.
sh fries and he, at this point, was 80,” Mitch said. “I jumped in and started helping him. I said, ‘Dad, why don’t we just build a food trailer?’” The details Junior and Mitch worked together to get the food trailer ready and planned to launch the business in January. However, Junior died before the launch date. Although Dalton wasn’t part of the Cat sh Hut heyday, he knew the family lore and became
Mitch said his paternal grandparents opened Midway Camp, a marina on the lake, in 1958. His grandmother would cook what people caught. “If you saw a sherman at Midway Point, the original Cat sh Hut, eating a hamburger he didn’t catch anything that day,” Mitch said. In 1972, Mitch’s dad, Junior Hall and his uncle, Dale Hall opened Cat sh Hut. “I basically came out of the womb, was put in a bassinet and put in the kitchen,” Mitch said.
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