Both of you are amateurs compared to Patrick.
Lobster Rolls
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A quick off-topic detour -- I should've put youse in quotation marks as it's a bit of an inside joke for people of my generation in the northeastern U.S. to signal that you're connected to the old-school working class from the previous century. Here are a few bullets from dozens of webpages that explain how and where youse is used:
- This unusual word was first recorded back in the 1890s and is a borrowing from Irish English, where it is usually spelt yez.
- It solves a problem that anglophones have had since most of us stopped using thou (singular) and ye (plural). The Irish conceived the neat solution of adding an “s” to “you” to make it plural.
- Youse is used in regions of Scotland, England, Ireland, Australia, Canada and the U.S.
- It's a stalwart and consistently divisive member of the Australian English language, where it can be associated with lower socioeconomic status.
- In the U.S., it is found where there was historically Irish immigration in large cities like Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Cincinnati, and scattered throughout working class communities in the Rust Belt.
Hence my comment about it not being muttered by what I thought were posh people that eat lobster rolls. @MarzNC has kindly informed me they were once working man’s food.
Yes, that's absolutely true and at the same time hard to believe given how expensive it is nowadays.
jasoncapecod
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I was on the Cape again this weekend. My mother-in-law is ill so I’ve been running up there almost every weekend to visit them in South Yarmouth and now she is in Chatham at a rehab.
The following is a quintessential Cape
lobster roll/fried fish joint
The place had a 1.5 hrs wait. Fortunately, we got there before the big rush.
The following is a quintessential Cape
lobster roll/fried fish joint
The place had a 1.5 hrs wait. Fortunately, we got there before the big rush.
A little bit of fried food is fine, but an entire plate of it?
jimk
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My Mom and Dad grew up near Boston. Around 2010 and late in his life, we took my Dad back to New England for one last summertime visit. One day we went for a drive along the NH/ME seacoast and upon his insistence we stopped for a lobster roll lunch in Hampton Beach, NH. Later that same day on the return trip we stopped at Brown’s Lobster Pound in Seabrook, NH for a full lobster dinner. I'm not a lobster eater, but my folks were crazy about them and my wife loves bugs (slang for lobster). Photo I posted earlier in this thread was her lobster roll, while I had fish tacos that evening.
You haven't traveled around the South much, have you? In addition to fried seafood, there is plenty of fried chicken.
Mainly shrimp or crawfish or crab along the Atlantic coast south of Delaware. Even heard of Rock Shrimp? We get them when we stay in Orlando. Worth a day trip to a small town near Cape Canaveral to eat them at Dixie's. Taste like lobster but not quite as expensive and less work. Also used to be considered not worth eating. Hard to get open until a machine to process them was invented in the early 1980s.
EMSC
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Much of the south and oddly the UK over the pond is a seemingly endless pile of brown and tan foods with few veggies or exceptions anywhere in sight (at least when eating out at local focused food joints).
My wife's family is from the Newport News/Williamsburg region. Across 25 years, I've witnessed a cavalcade of overcooked vegetables. The worst victims are green beans, which are rendered into brown beans.
berkshireskier
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I was out on the eastern end of Long Island over the weekend and stopped at a famous "Clam Shop" on the Montauk Highway between East Hampton and Montauk and got a lobster BLT. It was $42 but included a generous portion of very good french fries and delicious cole slaw. There was a LOT of lobster meat on the BLT, so much so that it was hard to actually eat the sandwich (it was quite messy). The traditional "lobster roll" was $45 and I noticed a lobster roll was $49 in the town of Montauk. All in all, given the quality of the lobster, I thought it was a pretty good deal, given the high price of lobsters.
PS: the clam shop was JAMMED and I asked the waitress how many lobsters they cook every day. Her response was: "thousands".
PS: the clam shop was JAMMED and I asked the waitress how many lobsters they cook every day. Her response was: "thousands".
ChrisC
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I don't know that place - Captain Cone - but its Lobster Roll price is a good deal. I see it's in Dennis. My Dad likes to go up to Denis and eat at a similar place at the Sesuit Harbor Cafe - where one can wait 30 minutes for a picnic table.
Dinner - Sesuit Harbor Cafe
sesuit-harbor-cafe.com
I don't really like a similar type place in Chatham - Kream N' Kone. https://www.kreamnkonechatham.com There are no really good options besides completely fired seafood.
Forget waits for Lobster Rolls, what about ice cream in the evening at some popular places on Cape Code. There are two places I know can be nearly 30 minutes most nights:
- Sundae School - Harwich Port https://www.sundaeschool.com/
- Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour - Mashpee https://www.polarcave.com/
jasoncapecod
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I know all places you have mentioned above, quite well. The wait at Sesuit Harbor hasn’t been as bad, but it used to be awful.I don't know that place - Captain Cone - but its Lobster Roll price is a good deal. I see it's in Dennis. My Dad likes to go up to Denis and eat at a similar place at the Sesuit Harbor Cafe - where one can wait 30 minutes for a picnic table.
Dinner - Sesuit Harbor Cafe
I don't really like a similar type place in Chatham - Kream N' Kone. https://www.kreamnkonechatham.com There are no really good options besides completely fired seafood.
Forget waits for Lobster Rolls, what about ice cream in the evening at some popular places on Cape Code. There are two places I know can be nearly 30 minutes most nights:
- Sundae School - Harwich Port https://www.sundaeschool.com/
- Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour - Mashpee https://www.polarcave.com/
The Cape is a culinary wasteland like you mentioned the choices are fried fish, lobster rolls, or mediocre pizza.