I'm sure it wasn't .... but, did you ever take a dare to eat a Gizzard Shad cooked over a campfire ?? I did, back when I was young & stoopid. Wasn't so bad from the taste point, but a mouth full of tiny bones stabbing you in the tongue & roof of the mouth was enough for me to spit that wad of misery about 6ft and sling the rest of the critter back out into the lake from whence it came.