Chef Antoine was sad and forlorn since the day the love of his life, or so he thought had taken off with the sou chef Rene. He went to the docks to choose a seafood for the day, and saw a boatload of catfish. he ordered two hundred pounds and returned to the restaurant to prepare the menu for the day, but his heart was not in it. Nothing was the same with Jean Claude, nothing.
The delivery arrived and he was still staring at the empty page without any inspiration or hope when he heard a voice. No one else was there yet, so he looked around expecting that one of the delivery men had misplaced something , but no. Again he heard the voice and he looked down into the barrel of fish and one was alive and its head was poking above the water.
He was losing his mind. That was the only explanation. The fish though spoke, "Ah Mon Ami, why so sad?"
Antoine spilled the whole story and the fish shook its head, "This swine is not worth your sorrow. Come come Mon Ami....touch my fin and make a wish for love and it shall be yours."
And so began the legend of the Love Giving Catfish and for a small fee, you can touch his fin at Chef Antoine's