On 11/9/2017 5:26 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
> Well Dave, now you know to check and see if they have the softshells
> frozen from past season. It may be too small a place to do that as
> Jill seems to indicate.
>
> Meantime my guesses are this: If you don't see okra or grits used in
> the menu, you won't get much of the uniqueness of the costal south on
> what we eat. LOL, it's not all catfish and crawdads!
>
Crawdads (crawfish) aren't common here. Catfish is often previously
frozen and not found on many menus. I've never seen frozen softshell
crab. I don't know why you and Gary think "coastal" means the same
thing when you're 500 miles to the north of Tybee Island.

Jill