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Seafood is not fungible [ie, there is choice seafood, run of the mill seafood, and puny seafood not worth the effort of cooking], and it doesn't travel well. As opposed to gold which is funglible and travels well, so even if you're somewhere where gold is plentiful, you know it's worth collecting and sending to a place where the scarcity makes it valuable. That dynamic is so reliable that the value of gold is universal, meaning it's even valuable right where the mother lode is located. But on the coast, people realize that crab is just a term for sea spider. They're so numerous that they run of the mill stock in the plentiful season has been washed up onto shore, decomposed and used for crop fertilizer [where it's more valuable than as a foodstuff]. Seafood used to be poor people's food in colonial times, like potatoes in Ireland before the famine. But inland, where seafood is rare, you can take the very best specimens send them live overnight, get some foo-foo chef to braise them and plate them with some God awfully complicated reduction, and charge $30+ for the experience. |
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08-31-2005, 06:52 PM | #62 |
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I proudly took the wife to eat at Strouds this evening, hoping to share a little KC culture with her. We were both disappointed.
Overrated. Vastly. I'd rather pay for Popeyes chicken 10 times than be given a plate of Stroud's fried chicken. Everything else was outstanding, but their chicken is bland and sucks. I won't eat that nastiness again. |
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08-31-2005, 06:56 PM | #63 | |
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08-31-2005, 07:07 PM | #64 | |
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08-31-2005, 07:09 PM | #65 | |
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08-31-2005, 07:11 PM | #66 | |
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08-31-2005, 07:20 PM | #67 | |
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Phi, it was STROUDS....not S. TROUDS. The two are easily confused, and you obviously fell for the conterfiet stuff. Sorry about your experience. |
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08-31-2005, 07:30 PM | #68 | |
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08-31-2005, 07:32 PM | #69 |
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Nothing really comes to mind for me when I think about great fried chicken in KC...
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08-31-2005, 07:32 PM | #70 | |
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08-31-2005, 07:43 PM | #75 |
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Their catfish is good, but the real draw for me are the side dishes (e.g. awesome green beans and excellent mashed potatoes and gravy).
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