There is a special feeling associated with a good fish fry... When a southerner of a certain age thinks of fried fish, he or she hears echoes of teenage road trips and shag music, warm salty nights and bonfires on the beach. It's all still down there if you look for it, but why bother when you can go any time you want just by frying up some fish, opening a beer and dropping an old record in the stereo.
(That's MP3 in the IPod to you young hipsters).