Seafood

And ditto for a good ass crab cake. It’ll run you like $30 and you’ll still be hungry.

I'm in Eastern Mass where seafood is king.

I hate food I have to disassemble, like lobster and Chesapeake Bay crab. The taste is overrated--it's a rubbery delivery vehicle for the butter--I never get enough meat out of it, and I always end up eating pieces of shell.

Lobster rolls tend to be pasty white bread and shit tons of mayo.

Crabcakes tend to be 95% bread crumbs.

I love salmon but portions tend to be small. It's great if I can get something else on the side.

I only like “unhealthy” seafood

Deep fried white fish with coke saw and fries

The kind you get at Friday night Wisconsin fish fry’s

I'm not a big fish eater but I do like shrimp.

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If I’m somewhere nearby a coast, I will absolutely splurge on seafood stuff. 🤤

There is a ton of shrimp in stores here. Often cheaper than meat. And salmon is cheaper than beef.

I think lobster rolls are overrated though. Everyone is stingy with lobster. Boa in LA has the best lobster I've had. They're huge but $75 each. I love lump crab cakes.

I usually go to sushi places or Mexican seafood restaurants to get my fix. I love shrimp aguachiles.

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Forget a restaurant. Just to buy some salmon, tuna, swordfish to grill or even cod is like $25-$30 a pound. I can sometimes find a small lobster tail for like $6. I will add that to a small steak.

At least one or two times a week, a poke bowl one night and salmon or scallops another night. Washing it down with a nice cold saki is delightful!

I would rather eat avacado toast. It is yummier

@48-Cowboy HELLO fellow millenial lol. I prefer guacamole toast since it spreads the pennies father but that's just me (self made guac btw)

I eat seafood a lot, I make scallops, lobster tails and shrimp at home often. Price of scallops has gone up a ton, lobster significantly and shrimp has only gone up a little. Scallops are the biggest pain to make (pan sear) I just usually throw my lobster tails and shrimp in the oven. Not a big fan of salmon but I’ll eat it. Love a hunk of tuna dining out but for some reason I can never recreate that taste at home…

Good ole know it all Icee. Farm raised salmon, that weird looking pink shit with very little nutritional value is less expensive than expensive steak and wild caught salmon is more expensive than high end beef. Tet - New Bedford or fall River for Portuguese seafood. Delicious and far less expensive than the Boston area. Antonio's in New Bedford make a killer spicy stuffed Quahog and a salmon dinner runs $20.00.

^ Oh puh-leeze

Icee Ape may be an idiot but it is documented fact that Skifredo is actually a crab that escaped the boiling pot (albeit with brain damage) that now lives behind a Starbucks and pretends to be a fourth-rate divorce lawyer that got his degree from the crappiest law school in the country. Not sure why he thinks that is a cool thing, but he is a crab with brain damage.

Also, Icee ape, you’re scarin’ Skifredo with the crab cakes stuff…he thinks you might eat him. ROAR!!

just a warning to all here. in moderation shellfish is ok. but don't do what the ex new york shortstop jose reyes did during one off season. he was living it up in miami and eating shellfish every single day. messed him up real bad that he didn't play at the beginning of a season. i believe he affected his thyroid.

@skibum, thanks for the recommendation. Seafood in the city is good but costs an arm and a leg.

Not really a fin fish fan, and as rattdog pointed out shellfish are high in iodine so moderation is advised but just to remark on the availability of fresh seafood here in Florida, it’s all over, and prices aren’t as high as you might expect, Grouper and Mahi Mahi are reasonable price and very popular.

I rarely eat fish when out, but eat what either I caught of people I know caught pretty regularly.

Not as much as I'd like, but that's more because I can't easily obtain the good stuff that I used to find everywhere when I lived in the northeast.

I prefer cold water fish like Cod, haddock, lobster and the northern clams to the warmer water stuff more widely available down here. I do also like shrimp, which I often cook into my fettuccini alfredo. Grilled swordfish is also good from time to time, but my kids won't eat it, which makes it hard for me to cook it at home.

And yes, it is quite pricey right now. I paid almost $20 per lb for Cod recently and had to buy over two pounds since I was cooking for the whole family. It was delicious when I deep fried it in my favorite beer batter recipe, but dropping over $50 (including cost of sides) on an ordinary dinner that I still had to cook myself is not something I'd do

And yes, right now seafood is extremely expensive, especially since I won't cook anything previously frozen.

That was supposed to be "not something I'd do often" and that last sentence was going to be deleted lol.

Oh and for the life of me I can't find good fried whole belly clams anywhere within a 60 mile radius. People who grew up down here think that clam strips are "fried clams." Where I come from, clam strips were considered a kiddie food, like hot dogs and chicken nuggets.

I used to cook the trout and large mouth bass that I caught when I lived in CA. My favorite fish was halibut but very hard to find on the east coast. Back in the 70's I used to get king crab shipped to me in CA from Kodiak AK for 50 cents a pound. Shipping was free because I worked for Western Air lines. CostCo now sells them for Approximately $35/lb. Only been to Red Lobster once since moving to GA back in 1988.

Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco is over rated except for sour dough bread.

Love seafood. But in the Midwest it's hard to get the good stuff. So whenever I smell fish it's unfortunately on my finger after taking the only dancer with a tooth in her head to the VIP in the local rural dive bar...

I get wild caught salmon for like $10 a lb. Fresh shrimp for $8 a lb. Frozen cod is like $12 per lb.

Lots of seafood out here, ranges from inexpensive Sole (mmm Sole meunière) to expensive Sablefish (fuck yes Miso Black Cod) to fml way too expensive king crab legs (still yum… king crab fettuccine Alfredo, anyone?). A lot comes from Coastal WA and more from Alaska, but very little from Puget Sound anymore, except for Dungeness crab, geoduck, and oysters. We’ve pretty much ruined the local fisheries between pollution and overfishing.

jackslash makes some delicious fishsticks with his air fryer. I’m not touching his homemade tartar sauce.

I love seafood and have it at least a couple of times per week. I completely disagree with Tetradon about lobster. I think it's fantastic (the best lobster roll is the one you make yourself, by the way). If you ever have the chance to go to a traditional New England clam boil on the beach, absolutely do it.

If I were on death row, my last meal would be a boiled lobster, a few quarts of steamers, native corn on the cob, and a few links of chourico.

In a couple of months I will be heading back to Florida for an extended stay. The best fish I have ever eaten is fresh caught Atlantic hogfish. The season runs through November 1. You can get Gulf hogfish year round and it is delicious, but the Atlantic always seems to taste better.

I enjoy almost all types of seafood but don’t cook it much at home. When out, I usually order from what is ‘in season’ in the area I’m visiting. I’ve never understood the fascination with lobster but have really enjoyed steamed crab from places like the Bay Steamer in Ft Walton Beach.

===> "If I were on death row, my last meal would be a boiled lobster, a few quarts of steamers, native corn on the cob..."

I'd thank that post 100 times if I could. Just add a big ol' bowl of sea water to swish each steamed clams in (to remove leftover sand), another big ol' bowl of melted butter to dip the clams and lobster in and a nutcracker to make it easier to break the lobster apart and I'm in heaven.

If I chose my area of residence based solely on the food I would have never left New England. People in other parts of the country have no idea how stupid good the average non-chain restaurant food is there or the high standards that New Englanders (putting aside CT, which is more like New York) are accustomed to.