I also had them fried at one of the shindigs. They were very good. Several years back I was at a sporting goods store on the Illinois River and they were promoting different ways to utilize them. They were giving away bottles of liquid, well semi liquid, fertilizer that was made from them.
They also had made a big cooker of sloppy joes out of them. Made like barbecue or hunts man-which. It was good. It tasted almost the same as the hunts man-which stuff.
Crappie spawning and morels popping up at the same time. What was God thinking when he made that schedule. It's pure torture every spring deciding which to do.