missing the seafood

Since I grew up in the "deep fried" South, but am no longer in that vicinity of the country, I often feel as though I am going through "seafood withdrawal". As a result, I occasionally feel the need to grab about ten pounds of crablegs for special occasions. Mother's Day may just have to be my next excuse. Not that my wife doesn't like crablegs herself. In fact, since I introduced her to them, I think she may even enjoy them more than me.

I grew up eating all kinds of seafood, from shrimp, crab and crawfish to oysters and various kinds of fish. (Yes, I said crawfish, not crayfish and not crawdads. I don't know who the hell calls them crawdads, because we sure at them often enough and never called them that. Maybe they call them that down in Texas or something.) I didn't like all of it (still don't like oysters), but I can appreciate most of it. Everyone raves about lobster, but it is probably the one type of seafood that I haven't tried. Sure, I've had the fake stuff that you buy in lumps at the supermarket, but that just doesn't cut it (from what I have been told).

Here's a quick tip - never order crawfish when you're eating at a seafood restaurant in a city like Omaha, unless you like imported "crawfish jerky" - ugh!!