Red Lobster and Boxers to Bed

[Hypoxia]

Seafood? See -- food! But how come we eat all those aquatic bugs? Lobster is just a giant underwater cockroach, or its cousin. Yeah, lobster used to be trash food, fit for poor folks who didn't know how to fish or were too lazy to pick out the bones.

Don't get me started on ceviche or sushi. Raw fish can be sickening. Anyway, seafood ain't no big thang around here, a couple hours from SF Bay and its ports. No Red Lobster outlets near here so for monster salmon steaks we hit the local Indian casino. Reminds me that an Indian casino on the Oregon coast (Lincoln City IIRC) had a Seniors Friday Seafood Buffet special: ten bucks for all the well-prepared aquatic life you could shovel down. Good cheap beer, too. Call it heaven.

But we never took a lobster to bed. Or a salmon. Too kinky. And if we had, I couldn't write about it here because rules.

 

[sbrooks103x]

Seafood? See -- food! But how come we eat all those aquatic bugs? Lobster is just a giant underwater cockroach, or its cousin. Yeah, lobster used to be trash food, fit for poor folks who didn't know how to fish or were too lazy to pick out the bones.

Don't get me started on ceviche or sushi. Raw fish can be sickening. Anyway, seafood ain't no big thang around here, a couple hours from SF Bay and its ports. No Red Lobster outlets near here so for monster salmon steaks we hit the local Indian casino. Reminds me that an Indian casino on the Oregon coast (Lincoln City IIRC) had a Seniors Friday Seafood Buffet special: ten bucks for all the well-prepared aquatic life you could shovel down. Good cheap beer, too. Call it heaven.

But we never took a lobster to bed. Or a salmon. Too kinky. And if we had, I couldn't write about it here because rules.

I'm on a seafood diet -All the food I see, I eat!

 

[sbrooks103x]

Where I live Red Lobster IS the best seafood in about 100 miles. Of course it's also the ONLY seafood in about 100 miles.

I love flying down to Houston to get real seafood. But it's WAY to far to drive and even cattle car airlines (Southwest) is pretty expensive to fly just to go to a decent restaurant.

It may be the best seafood in 100 miles, that STILL doesn't make Red Lobster a "special" place to eat!

 

[OmnislashXX]

I live in a state where seafood is practically the norm for most restaurants. Particularly Crab cakes. If a restaurant doesn't have them around here, they're doing it wrong.

 

[Hypoxia]

It may be the best seafood in 100 miles, that STILL doesn't make Red Lobster a "special" place toeat!

There are places in USA where Denny's is the elite eatery. And Velveeta is in the gourmet section of the supermarket deli. And Coors (known in the West as Old Fairy Piss) is the best beer. When Long John Silver's is the only seafood competition, Red Lobster probably looks pretty good.

NOTE: I won't knock Long John Silver's. I was caught in an early blizzard in Lincoln Nebraska awhile back, with a snow load that broke every tree in town, and LJS was the ONLY open eatery. Lines were long but everyone was fed.

 

[GoldenCojones]

There are places in USA where Denny's is the elite eatery. And Velveeta is in the gourmet section of the supermarket deli. And Coors (known in the West as Old Fairy Piss) is the best beer. When Long John Silver's is the only seafood competition, Red Lobster probably looks pretty good.

NOTE: I won't knock Long John Silver's. I was caught in an early blizzard in Lincoln Nebraska awhile back, with a snow load that broke every tree in town, and LJS was the ONLY open eatery. Lines were long but everyone was fed.

That reminds me of something a doctor told me once. He was explaining how to eat right when eating out. He said:

When you go to a restaurant order fish. If they don't have fish, order chicken. If they don't have fish or chicken, go to a different restaurant. And just so that we're on the same page, Long John Silvers is not fish or chicken.

It made me laugh and got his point across. Turns out that's harder in the Texas Panhandle than you would think. A lot of our restaurants serve a wide variety of steak and that's about it. You can get a sirloin, ribeye, t-bone, New York Strip, or porterhouse, but you can't get chicken or fish.

 

[Handley_Page]

Erm. . .. What's Red Lobster ?

 

[Hypoxia]

Erm. . .. What's Red Lobster ?

That was a supervillain in the early Dr Who stories, right?

 

[Handley_Page]

That was a supervillain in the early Dr Who stories, right?

Nice try, but no cigar

 

[TxRad]

Nice try, but no cigar

Red Lobster is a chain of seafood restaurants.

 

[OmnislashXX]

"Red Lobster, for the seafood lover in you."

 

[Crkcppr]

That reminds me of something a doctor told me once. He was explaining how to eat right when eating out. He said:



It made me laugh and got his point across. Turns out that's harder in the Texas Panhandle than you would think. A lot of our restaurants serve a wide variety of steak and that's about it. You can get a sirloin, ribeye, t-bone, New York Strip, or porterhouse, but you can't get chicken or fish.

And the problem with that is ??? Lol

 

[trysail]

<sigh> I have no problem with silly. But YOU made a statement that I honestly didn't understand, and instead of explaining your point you decided to poke fun at my marriage.

Now, maybe you INTENDED them to be "silly", but in the context of the discussion they didn't come across that way.

I apologize if I didn't get the joke, and if the joke goes back to the original reply so be it.

Hint: you are dealing with sr71plt, someone widely known to be the biggest asshole and most tedious twit in all of Lit.


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[Hypoxia]

A lot of our restaurants serve a wide variety of steak and that's about it. You can get a sirloin, ribeye, t-bone, New York Strip, or porterhouse, but you can't get chicken or fish.

And the problem with that is ??? Lol

There's a popular slogan: EAT BEEF - The West Wasn't Won With Salad. In actuality, the West was won with beans and maize corn mostly, with a bunch of rabbits and groundhogs mixed in. Bovine culinary monoculture (beef and nothing but) is a weird cult. Not exactly the healthiest, either. Tastes good though.

 

[SamScribble]

There's a popular slogan: EAT BEEF - The West Wasn't Won With Salad. In actuality, the West was won with beans and maize corn mostly, with a bunch of rabbits and groundhogs mixed in. Bovine culinary monoculture (beef and nothing but) is a weird cult. Not exactly the healthiest, either. Tastes good though.

The first time that I visited New Zealand (many, many years ago), a popular dish was Colonial Goose - a boned-out shoulder of lamb, stuffed with bread and onions and lots of fresh herbs, and slow roasted. I guess no one had realised that good piece of medium-rare grass-fed lamb beats a goose every time.

 

[Hypoxia]

The first time that I visited New Zealand (many, many years ago), a popular dish was Colonial Goose - a boned-out shoulder of lamb, stuffed with bread and onions and lots of fresh herbs, and slow roasted. I guess no one had realised that good piece of medium-rare grass-fed lamb beats a goose every time.

The rule in many parts of the world is, "Eat whatever moves, and whatever doesn't, too." Hopefully the stuff stops moving before being eaten. Although I had my doubts at a certain Yucatan purveyor of swamp creatures... But anyway, almost anything tastes okay if stewed with onions and herbs and maybe peppers. And washed down with alcohol. Lots of alcohol. Especially with armadillo.

ObTopic: I will admit to dining at Red Lobster many times. But it wasn't my idea, not my fault. My mother-in-law, a former classical musical exec, loved going to orchestral concerts at a college a couple hours away. We drove her; she bought dinner and tickets. And she bought dinner at Red Lobster, so that's where we ate, salt and all. Note: Sitting 20 feet from Kiri te Kanawa singing Carmen's Habañera is awesome. Even with Red Lobster's fried shrimpries curdling in our guts.

 

[NaokoSmith]

My favorite trivia about lobster is that it used to be poor people food.

Same thing with oysters here in the UK! At one point apprentices had it written in their contracts that they weren't to be given too many oysters as part of their board and lodgings, because they were so cheap. I was down at the Thames in Greenwich in the summer, and the river shore is still littered with old oyster shells.

About the clean boxers, I realised something recently. I used to really dislike it that the Fella (my ex) would only take a shower in the morning. Particularly as he suffered with eczma, I tried to persuade him to have a shower in the evening, and come to bed nice and clean and fresh - with his skin clean of the day's grime so it could breathe and recover all night. I thought he was being completely pig-headed and neurotic, that he wouldn't do this. (I mean, that is possible, as he was being a bit weird about other things at the time too.)

I always have a bath in the evening before bed. But I realised that some of Piglet's friends who stayed over found this odd, and they preferred to wash in the mornings like the Fella. They were the more working class ones, whereas I am so posh that my accent will cut glass. I realised that it was a class issue, whether you insist on having a bath before bed - and so maybe you change into clean boxers then too, or whether you have a wash in the morning before going out to work - and wear the same boxers you wore all day to save laundry.

 

[OliviaM]

ObTopic: I will admit to dining at Red Lobster many times. But it wasn't my idea, not my fault. My mother-in-law, a former classical musical exec, loved going to orchestral concerts at a college a couple hours away. We drove her; she bought dinner and tickets. And she bought dinner at Red Lobster, so that's where we ate, salt and all. Note: Sitting 20 feet from Kiri te Kanawa singing Carmen's Habañera is awesome. Even with Red Lobster's fried shrimpries curdling in our guts.

That sounds awesome. And hey, I've eaten there too. There is stuff on the menu you can find that's not so bad. And I'm not so much of a food snob that I will turn down cheddar biscuits.

I always have a bath in the evening before bed. But I realised that some of Piglet's friends who stayed over found this odd, and they preferred to wash in the mornings like the Fella. They were the more working class ones, whereas I am so posh that my accent will cut glass. I realised that it was a class issue, whether you insist on having a bath before bed - and so maybe you change into clean boxers then too, or whether you have a wash in the morning before going out to work - and wear the same boxers you wore all day to save laundry.

I much prefer showers before bed. It's so nice to slip into sheets fresh out of the dryer when you're equally clean (and naked).

 

[sbrooks103x]

Same thing with oysters here in the UK! At one point apprentices had it written in their contracts that they weren't to be given too many oysters as part of their board and lodgings, because they were so cheap. I was down at the Thames in Greenwich in the summer, and the river shore is still littered with old oyster shells.

About the clean boxers, I realised something recently. I used to really dislike it that the Fella (my ex) would only take a shower in the morning. Particularly as he suffered with eczma, I tried to persuade him to have a shower in the evening, and come to bed nice and clean and fresh - with his skin clean of the day's grime so it could breathe and recover all night. I thought he was being completely pig-headed and neurotic, that he wouldn't do this. (I mean, that is possible, as he was being a bit weird about other things at the time too.)

I always have a bath in the evening before bed. But I realised that some of Piglet's friends who stayed over found this odd, and they preferred to wash in the mornings like the Fella. They were the more working class ones, whereas I am so posh that my accent will cut glass. I realised that it was a class issue, whether you insist on having a bath before bed - and so maybe you change into clean boxers then too, or whether you have a wash in the morning before going out to work - and wear the same boxers you wore all day to save laundry.

Yes, I can definitely understand not putting the dirty boxers on before going to bed after showering, I was thinking more of guys who strip down and hop into bed.

 

[lovecraft68]

I ate at Red Lobster once when a for some reason one of our customers wanted to go there. Seeing fresh seafood is abundant here I had no clue why, but we went where they wanted.

I was sick for two days, the only time I've veer had food poisoning in my life. Tow of my co-workers were sick as well. Client wasn't...odd.

I haven't worn anything to bed since I was in my teens.