pavane wrote:

> Not to mention the stone crab claws or gulf shrimp or Apalachicola oysters
> or freshly smoked mullet.

Bob and I are west coasters so we have some nice Pacific oysters here --
but we both agree that they don't taste nearly as good as the oysters
from the Gulf ... dang. Nothing better than raw oysters on the half
shell and a nice Bloody Mary, sitting in the Acme Oyster Bar in New Orleans.

When I lived in OK, all we got were gulf coast oysters and shrimp.
Trucks would drive up from the south with their bounty. Friends would
say when and where a particular truck was and we'd seek it out. (Before
the days of Twitter). Now that I've been able to make the comparisons, I
do prefer the gulf variety of those two things.

--Lin