Apparently someone decided to mess with the fish filets.

Gorton's Inc. recalled about 1,000 cases of frozen fish in Georgia and nine other states Friday after confirming that items a Pennsylvania customer reported finding in her food were pills.

Gorton's said it ordered the recall as a precaution while a laboratory works to determine the nature of the pills. Results are expected early next week.

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Tracy Rowan of New Freedom called police to report that she bit into one of the pills Sunday after her 9-year-old daughter realized one was in her fish, too. On Friday, Reis said the material was some sort of pill, not compressed batter or bread crumbs.

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The recall is for Gorton's 6 Crispy Battered Fish Fillets, 11.4 ounces. The UPC Code is No. 44400157770, with a date code of 7289G1 and a best-if-used-by date of April 2009.

The fish was sent to nine other states: Alabama, Delaware, California, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating, Reis said.

Consumers who purchased the fish can call Gorton's at 800-896-9479.

I guess they won't be needed as many promotional pens this quarter, huh? Read more at the AJC.

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Here's a delicious recipe for garlic mashed potatoes.

Oh yeah, you've got to have garlic. I'm not so sure you need to potato ricer though.

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Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith died of pneumonia Thursday, less than two weeks before the band was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 64.

Smith died at a hospital outside of London, his agent Margo Lewis said.

He was admitted to the intensive care unit Wednesday morning with a chest infection, a complication from a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed below the ribcage with limited use of his upper body. Lewis said he was injured when he fell from a fence at his home in Spain in September 2003.

Smith had been in the hospital since the accident, and was just released last December when he moved into a specially prepared home near the hospital with his wife.

Smith is survived by his wife, Arlene (nicknamed Charlie).

Rest In Peace, Mike.

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Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60.

Miles died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas, according to an announcement on his website.

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By the late 1970s, however, Miles' career came to a halt over convictions for grand theft and auto theft. He served time in the California Institution for Men at Chino and at San Quentin State Prison. He was incarcerated until 1985 and formed bands at both prisons.

After he was released, he sang with Santana's group and got the raisin gig while working on an album with the guitarist. The popular television commercials for the California Raisin Advisory Board featured a quartet of singing and dancing Claymation figures with Miles, as Buddy Raisin, doing the lead singing covering Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

The commercial's popularity spawned a million-selling offshoot album of remakes of rock and soul oldies, "The California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs."

Rest In Peace, Buddy.

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Over the course of the past two years, we have been looking for a nice piece of property in an area that is conducive to raising a family as well as growing enough crops to make that property self-sustaining for our family. We're even willing to sell our current home and take on a mobile home mortgage just to have that perfect piece of property.

The problem we have run into is most property we find is way over priced for the area it is located in, or it already has a home situated on the land. Many of the properties within our income have dilapidated buildings, and it would cost too much to tear them down. If we could find that perfect parcel I am sure we could get mobile home financing as well.

I was thinking about our long term plans and realized that, even though I could qualify for the land and the mobile home, with the housing market the way it is, I doubt we could sell our home in a reasonable amount of time to make it happen. I spoke to a neighbor the other night who is selling their home, and a deal they thought they had in place fell through because the people decided to focus on their mobile home refinancing rather than take the risk of buying a new home in the current market.

I know our land is out there, and we have time, so when the market rebounds I am sure we'll see more and more opportunities out there.

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