Bob & Betty:  If you felt I was maligning your family in any way, I
apologize.  I have several good friends and a relative also in the
resort/restaurant businesses there, and have been going there since 1942,
including living in the area from 1982-1992.  I certainly didn't mean to
imply that all restaurants do it all the time.  But sometimes, you may get
what you pay for. I don't think my observation is going to bankrupt any
business.  I do know I can prove what I said.  It was not an idle general
statement.

I know the difference as far as grain with scallops.  But I don't eat them
(or anything else) at certain restaurants where I have been inside the
kitchen and observed some of their practices.

Since I feel the area is as much or more my home than Huntsville, Ala., I
was not criticizing the area in any way.  I visit with my uncle there
several times a year for extended visits and remain a member of the Gulf
Coast Shell Club, and read the New-Herald on-line daily.

Sylvia Edwards


----- Original Message -----
From: Robert & Betty Lipe <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] scallops as seafood


> Sorry to say, but scallop muscles just can't be duplicated by using
> fish.  The grain runs the wrong way.  Only a person that has never eaten
> scallops can be fooled.  Don't malign an area unless you have definite
> proof.  Cookie cutters can be used to make fish sandwiches.  My daughter
> and her husband own a restaurant in that area.
>
> Bob Lipe
>
> Sylvia S. Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Re skates and shark served as scallops.  I don't eat them in the Panama