The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsDon't Ask 'Cause I Don't Know Either
We have something here and in central British Columbia where fishermen sell their seafood off the back of their trucks.
Some people obviously take a chance and buy the stuff, I'm sure a lot of it is from legitimate fishers who have a license to do so, but there's something about buying seafood from the back of a truck that worries me.
Where did the seafood come from? How long ago did they catch it? How has it been stored: frozen, fresh, or just sitting out in the sun?
I'm afraid that if it's the latter, I am not fond of sunbathed shrimp. Seems a little foul to me. I'm talking about funky fish, and I don't mean they're good dancers.
I can just imagine where they may have come from... the sewer? Mmmmm, sewer lobsters. Originally brown in colour, but were painted red in acrylic for salability. Hey, I'm a painter, maybe I could get a job painting the lobster, but would I really want to be painting feculent lobster. Ew!
And to make this article cornier, the Atlantic lobster are the good ones, tasty, but when they're sold off the back of a truck, this elite lobster actually came from the sewers of the wealthy folks up on snob-hill.
This, people, is the sanity level that MR.BIG and I succumb to when we get together to talk about nothing.
Comments
I see a lot of that here too but only shrimp (the Gulf Coast kind), and a whole lot of tamale vendors. You sure don't want to stop at one of the latter, I've always thought it was questionable what goes in tamales (unless homemade) to begin with, I can only imagine what's in them that they can be sold for $1.50 a dozen off the back of a truck. It's only a 30-minute drive for me to go to Kemah and buy shrimp or blue crabs fresh off the boats, but NOW with the hurricane disaster, that makes me start wondering how that's going to effect shrimping/crabbing in the Gulf. Where is the water being pumped out of New Orleans going? Oh now I too digress- it must be contagious. What I started out to say was if you ARE going to buy a lobster off the back of a pickup truck and it's red you can be fairly certain that they aren't fresh, but maybe that's supposed to be the selling point- already cooked!
Posted by: Diane | September 1, 2005 04:43 AM
Good blog! I found out you had me on your random blogroll. Thanks!
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Mona
Posted by: Mona | September 1, 2005 01:00 PM
If I get stuff off the truck, then I know it came off a truck. If I get it at the store, I don't know diddly. (Do you do diddly up there? We don't do diddly down here.)
Posted by: Kevin | September 1, 2005 03:40 PM