jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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

I've lived a few places where crawfish/crawdads were common. Here isnt
one of them and where you are probably isnt either.

If your menus do not have catfish, it may be where you go because it's
really common here but as you say, I'm a few hours north of you. As to
frozen softshell crabs, they aren't in the supermarket, at least not
the average ones you'd find where you are. I'm in a bigger city.

https://www.google.com/search?source...d94ngDQ&q=froz
en+soft+shell+crab&oq=frozen+soft&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0l10.34026648.34031365
..0.34035840.11.11.0.0.0.0.144.1220.0j10.10.0....0 ...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.10.
1215...46j0i131k1j0i46k1.0.pRBodAF7NVI

Or you can get them off Amazon.com.
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