The Best Thing you ever ate.........

[MaryAnne]

I'm in double digits.....come on July 12 !!!!!!!!!!!

Kathy, since you are a SoWal Legend, and I am a mere Beach Comber, it's a good bet everyone knows the answer to this, but I still have to ask about your signature. Hmmm... double digits...
a) you are 9 years old and will be 10 on July 12?? Probably not!
b) your tenth speeding ticket??
c) your tenth child??
Curious minds want to know!

 

[kathydwells]

I'm in double digits.....come on July 12 !!!!!!!!!!!

Kathy, since you are a SoWal Legend, and I am a mere Beach Comber, it's a good bet everyone knows the answer to this, but I still have to ask about your signature. Hmmm... double digits...
a) you are 9 years old and will be 10 on July 12?? Probably not!
b) your tenth speeding ticket??
c) your tenth child??
Curious minds want to know!

:funn:It is the date that I arrive in paradise.

 

[MaryAnne]

Now I can rest easy!! we'll be in paradise on the 7th. Can't wait walk in the surf.

 

[kathydwells]

Now I can rest easy!! we'll be in paradise on the 7th. Can't wait walk in the surf.

Have a wonderful, safe trip!!!!!

 

[GoodWitch58]

My favorite, too, has to do with the circumstances more than just the food itself.

The one I remember the most is a pizza I ate in 1972 in Honolulu--I had lived for a year on the Pacific island of Guam, and back in those days (before many of you were even born!), the world was much different, not every place had a Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried chicken as they do today...I had been eating some wonderful local food, and some okay military food, and my own food, but Guam (which is located relatively close to the island of Palau, btw) was a pretty isolated place, and there were no pizza joints.

My husband and I took a weekend trip to Honolulu, and the minute I got out of the airport, I headed for the closest pizza place--I don't remember the name--after I ordered the largest pizza on the menu, with everything on top, I looked at my husband and said, "and what are you going to have?" In astonishment, he said, "are you going to eat the whole pizza?" I said "yes" and I did.

It was the best pizza I ever had!

Our next two years on Guam were filled with lots of adventures and I loved living there and traveling from there, but about every three months, I would get the urge to fly to Honolulu for pizza; and almost every time I have pizza, all these years later, I can still recall how wonderful that pizza tasted...

 

[DD]

Great story, gw. Reminds me of Mr. DD's middle daughter who's living with us until the end of the month when she goes to Kuwait. She spent 18 mos. in Tonga and when she got here, all she wanted was Sonic, Pizza, and lots of vegetables. Evidently, the only veggies they got were a little "ripe" and not even many of those. Now, she's off to a new adventure with the USO. Who knows what she'll get to eat there.

 

[GoodWitch58]

Great story, gw. Reminds me of Mr. DD's middle daughter who's living with us until the end of the month when she goes to Kuwait. She spent 18 mos. in Tonga and when she got here, all she wanted was Sonic, Pizza, and lots of vegetables. Evidently, the only veggies they got were a little "ripe" and not even many of those. Now, she's off to a new adventure with the USO. Who knows what she'll get to eat there.

She'll probably be okay there, as long as she stays on the main bases. Most of them have BK, KFC, and Pizza Hut, these days...

Looking back, though, I have to say that I miss the days when the whole world didn't look the same. A few years ago I was in Poland,
and one night a group of us wanted to go out to have some local food, without our guide. We were looking for some authentic adventure--we asked a street cop where could we have dinner, hoping he would steer us to a good local spot...imagine our dismay when he led us to the local KFC!

 

[DD]

She'll probably be okay there, as long as she stays on the main bases. Most of them have BK, KFC, and Pizza Hut, these days...

Looking back, though, I have to say that I miss the days when the whole world didn't look the same. A few years ago I was in Poland,
and one night a group of us wanted to go out to have some local food, without our guide. We were looking for some authentic adventure--we asked a street cop where could we have dinner, hoping he would steer us to a good local spot...imagine our dismay when he led us to the local KFC!

LOL!! KFC!!
She'll be in heaven if they have Pizza Hut.

 

[Beach Runner]

Tokyo: Inakaya -- robatayaki
Barcelona: Gorria -- Valle del Roncal lamb
Osaka: Kobe Steak House -- steak with carmelized garlic
Barcelona: Bottafumeiro -- Orio evergreen oak charcoal barbecued grouper
Rome: Trattoria del Pantheon da Fortunata -- fried zucchini flowers
Paris: Le Pr? Catalan -- L'Os a Moelle (beef marrow)
New Orleans: K-Paul's -- blackend beef tenders debris, chicken and sausage gumbo, chicken and seafood jambalaya, mirliton pirogue stuffed with shrimp and andouille
New Orleans: Commander's Palace -- turtle soup, fish in pecan butter
Hanover, Germany: Train station -- bratwurst
My house: barbequed shrimp, red beans and rice, cherry pound cake, beef tenderloin infused with garlic and basil, daughter's bruschetta, daughter's chicken tacos, daughter's fish tacos and jalapeno cole slaw

 

[CPort]

I can't pick just one. But my favorite food in all the world is fried shrimp. And tho' I like the plethora of restaurants we have available here today, it seems that I can't find anyone that replicates the shrimp from my formative years, from Bay Grove Restaurant or Chapman's (way back when the Chapman family from Black Creek still had it)...

Except Nick's. Thank God for Nick's. I'll stick up for Bayou Bill's, et al, because they have "good" shrimp and my son the busser now has a car to finish paying for plus insurance, but Nick's is Da Bomb.

There is also O'Steens in St Augustine Beach, and I'll visit them in about three weeks - but it's a tad far to strike out for them on a whim.

this is the best shrimp I've ever had (fried). Can't wait to go back there! I know its fresh,I had to go through the kitchen to roll my cousin (who was in a wheel chair) in. They also had bushels of snap beans they were snapping. So thats what I got also.