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i like most of these things.
lobster and clams are best really soon after they're pulled from the drink. lobster in particular seems to loose flavor really quickly....no idea why...but it seems to be true. i had lobster sometimes in philadelphia and it tasted like wet paper. now i live on the coast in northeastern massachusetts and the lobster's really great. and the clams are amazing from the essex river. sweet. i have friends who are clammers...nothing better, i don't think.
problem with touristy seafood joints is sometimes that they're just located in places famous for something---woodmans, which is the famous friend clam place in essex, uses maryland clams. other places use local. there are a couple chain restos that advertise lobster in gloucester--a big lobster port--that don't serve locally caught lobster. it makes no sense to me. but they make money i guess. people don't necessarily know the difference until they discover it then they do.
o yeah--the spiny lobster you can get in brittany is really really good. sweet. yummy.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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