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I love the flavor and texture of sushi! It’s just hard to find places that are very clean, and really importantly, carry seafoods that don’t have a huge environmental impact. I really like salmon (but only raw- I hate it cooked!) but most places only carry farmed Atlantic Salmon. The problem is that most people think that farmed fishes have less of an impact environmentally, but the opposite is often the case (Atlantic farmed salmon is actually unhealthy to eat due to toxins too!). This guide has always helped me out… http://www.oceansalive.org/eat.cfm?subnav=bestandworst
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My favorite seafood restaraunt is The Chart House. Pretty expensive but good for taking my great aunt out for her birthday or for Christmas (I know, really lame going to a restaurant for Christmas). The one in NJ has a great view of the NY skyline but there are others – I know there is one in Boston (my sister lives there) and there was one in Baltimore.
I dont do or eat anything because it’s supposedly “cool or fashionable.” Ironically, before I moved to FL, my mom in NY had tried to get me to eat sushi tons of times. She and my friends Donna (a chef) and Gina tricked me into eating a piece of a sushi roll with eel in it. They should have waited till I got it down before they told me what I was eating. I got up and went to the bathroom and though I didnt get sick, I came close (psychological).
Then for some reason, when I moved to FL, out of the blue with no prodding from anyone, I thought to myself one night, “I want sushi.” I think I got an Alaskan Roll or Rainbow Roll (both I love). Like Nam, I LOVE salmon, but not cooked! When I eat the rolls, I dont like it when they have the fish cooked (as some of them do), except the crab. Such as I love Spider Rolls. Yellowtail is awesome as is some spicy tuna.
Many think that the texture would be hard to chew when it really just melts in your mouth. It is always way less “fishy” raw, than when cooked. I prefer my rolls to have the rice on the outside rather than seaweed. I like wasabi (have over done it sometimes but it’s good for the nasal passages!), and am addicted to tons and tons of GINGER!
travistie wrote:Crab Shack – Savannah, GA (this is one of those places that has a big hole in the middle of the table to throw shells n’ stuff. Plus they got a huge alligator pen and bunny rabbit pen outside… which is kinda weird. But it’s something to watch while you’re waiting for a table. This is the original crab shack that inspired Joe’s Crab shack.)
Now, do the bunnies occasionally disappear?? And the alligators keep getting fatter??
I have to be honest – I totally understand the circle of life and that bunnies are nature’s snack food but if they do get tossed in with the gators – blech! NOT what I want to see when I’m eating. But then I won’t eat lobster because the sight of them with their claws tied up and the thought of them being thrown live into boiling hot water just makes me cringe. Yes, I eat fish and the occassional chicken or turkey so I’m not consistent but it’s one of the little weird things in my personality. No lobster and no veal. But besides making screaming lobster sounds when friends order lobsters at restaraunts I don’t get in people’s faces about it! 😉 (unlike people who yell about people wearing fur coats while wearing leather sneakers)
ddvm wrote:I have to be honest – I totally understand the circle of life and that bunnies are nature’s snack food but if they do get tossed in with the gators – blech! NOT what I want to see when I’m eating. But then I won’t eat lobster because the sight of them with their claws tied up and the thought of them being thrown live into boiling hot water just makes me cringe. Yes, I eat fish and the occassional chicken or turkey so I’m not consistent but it’s one of the little weird things in my personality. No lobster and no veal. But besides making screaming lobster sounds when friends order lobsters at restaraunts I don’t get in people’s faces about it! 😉 (unlike people who yell about people wearing fur coats while wearing leather sneakers)
Well, I can understand about the fur coats. I mean we use most of the rest of the cow right? But to raise an animal just so you can skin it and throw the rest away is wrong and to kill by shoving a electric rod up their butts and electrocuting them…that’s just gross. Not that a mallete to the head is much better…okay I’m not sure what side of this argument I’m on 🙄
Jasmine wrote:travistie wrote:Crab Shack – Savannah, GA (this is one of those places that has a big hole in the middle of the table to throw shells n’ stuff. Plus they got a huge alligator pen and bunny rabbit pen outside… which is kinda weird. But it’s something to watch while you’re waiting for a table. This is the original crab shack that inspired Joe’s Crab shack.)
Now, do the bunnies occasionally disappear?? And the alligators keep getting fatter??
NO, the bunnies do not get tossed to the gators. They even have a sign by the pen saying that the bunnies are not gator food. They just have two seperate pens there.
You can feed the gators at this place though. I think you have to pay like a couple bucks, and you can get this pole with a string and hook that has cubed ham on it. When we were there, lots of little kids were dropping the lines in feeding the little gators. It was kinda funny to watch, cause most of the gators didn’t seem interested in the ham at all. I think they were too full from eating it all day!
There is supposed to be some sort of exotic bird display there too, but I didn’t see where it was.
skigod377 wrote:Hey, Drogo, will we be able to watch the fight somehow?
Well no, but I think they will sell dvd’s of it after the event, in which case I might be able to upload it somehow. It’s just a local production, (not the UFC or anything) and the event venue hasn’t been finalized yet. I just have to get ready. 😈
I stayed at my fighting weight for almost 3 years but didn’t end up fighting because of work. I let myself go this last summer, just lifting weights, not doing cardio, and hitting the Texas buffets…so the next month’s gonna suck for me… 😈
PhoenixTears wrote:and am addicted to tons and tons of GINGER!
Eeeewwwww……yuck! Bad, nasty stuff! First (and only) time I ever tasted ginger, I didn’t know what it was. I hate to say that was the first time I ever spit something out in a restaurant. 😯 *shudder*
Well, the pickled ginger you get with sushi really doesn’t give you the real taste of ginger. It’s actually quite good in some things…:)
The ginger I get at my sushi restaurant is fresh, not pickled to my knowledge. It’s a bright pink in tiny, bite size deli thin strips. Combine that with wasabi on top of a piece of a sushi roll and Im in heaven.
DROGO wrote:skigod377 wrote:Hey, Drogo, will we be able to watch the fight somehow?
Well no, but I think they will sell dvd’s of it after the event, in which case I might be able to upload it somehow. It’s just a local production, (not the UFC or anything) and the event venue hasn’t been finalized yet. I just have to get ready. 😈
I stayed at my fighting weight for almost 3 years but didn’t end up fighting because of work. I let myself go this last summer, just lifting weights, not doing cardio, and hitting the Texas buffets…so the next month’s gonna suck for me… 😈If you can, that would be cool. I’d like to see. Only if you win, though.
PhoenixTears wrote:I prefer my rolls to have the rice on the outside rather than seaweed. I like wasabi (have over done it sometimes but it’s good for the nasal passages!), and am addicted to tons and tons of GINGER!
I like the seaweed wrapped around the rice with a small peice of whatever in the middle. That I can eat, but just not often.
PhoenixTears wrote:The ginger I get at my sushi restaurant is fresh, not pickled to my knowledge. It’s a bright pink in tiny, bite size deli thin strips. Combine that with wasabi on top of a piece of a sushi roll and Im in heaven.
That’s pickled ginger! Isn’t it delicious? Natural, fresh ginger is white, not pink. 🙂 Don’t worry, I didn’t know the difference for a long time!
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