Here in Maine there are no Red Lobster Restaurants.  The one which use to be
in Augusta has closed and been replaced by an Olive Garden.  Who wants
seafood shipped frozen from Boston or even further away when you can get
good fresh stuff at most local restaurants (even MacDonalds has Lobster
Rolls)?

Beth


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Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: scallops as seafood


>True story.  About two years ago I ate at a Red Lobster in Piscataway, New
>Jersey.  For all of you outside of the states, Red Lobster is a chain
>resturaunt which serves generally tasteless and over cooked seafood usually
>in places which do not have seafood resturaunts.  Anyway, I ordered the
>baked fishermans platter with an assortment of shellfish, shrimp, fish,
>etc.  The baked scallops came in a small dish covered in butter.  As I was
>eating this, I bit into one and nearly broke a tooth.  It was hard as a
>rock.  Upon further inspection, I noticed that it was a brachiopod shell,
>both valves, same color and general shape as the cooked scallops.  What was
>I to do?  Complain to the management?  No I stuck it in my pocket and took
>it home.  I will always remember the Red Lobster as one of the more exotic
>places that I had ever collected.  Where would these scallops have come
>from originally where brachs could also be found?  I don't think Florida.
>Perhaps NZ or Japan?
>
>Michael Reagin
>Easton, PA
>