Question for the Transplants (North: wedding reception, restaurants, cost)

[Pattig]

Originally Posted by Kathy29483

If she thought the pig pickin' food was strange.....I wonder what she would do at a New England clambake?

I mean, dig a hole in the ground, fill it with rocks and seaweed, then pile on a mess of ugly bottom feeding creatures...along with assorted vegetables...

Making myself hungry.

You, my friend, are the only one who's words have made me homesick

[OleTomCat]

Don't get many clam bakes down here, but the pig pikin is fun.....

Pat you get the clams sent in I will set up the back yard for the bake.....

[Barbara]

Are there clams in the bays and harbors of the Charleston area? What about other shellfish like mussels or crabs. I know there are schrimp.

[Pattig]

Tom... I would love that. I actually thinks SellsFish gets some clams in once in awhile. Miss those clambakes!!!

[OleTomCat]

There are crabs all over the place around here, just look at the red jugs and other buoys in all of the canals, rivers and harbor.....

Don't think there are many mussels around here, there are clams too, but I don't think they are as large as the ones we used to get up north....

I also like the little necks, they make better half shells....

[2mares]

I guess this is bothering me now because my husband cooked a pig and had some people over, etc. One of the couples were not from here (read: from up North) and the wife said "I had to take some pictures to show my friends what these people eat here." So, we cook a pig. Big deal, it tastes good. I would never say that about her regional cuisine. If she feels this way about us, why would she move here? I guess I wonder what people's opinions were of the South before they moved here?

Now thats funny. I suspose she dosent eat bacon, sausage or ham? Reminds me of my northern relatives that wont eat my free range chicken eggs because "they come out of a chickens butt".

[OleTomCat]

That is nothing my wife won't eat brown shelled eggs.....

[2mares]

Originally Posted by OleTomCat

That is nothing my wife won't eat brown shelled eggs.....

I have some Araucans that lay green and blue eggs. A lot of ppl wont eat them at first. I tell them they arent green on the inside, but they still come out of a chickens butt.

[2mares]

We cooked a pig last yr. First time my 7 yr. old grandson had picked a pig. He came over and told me he had thrown up because they had talked him into eating some pig brain.

[pokrplr]

Originally Posted by Pattig

Miss those clambakes!!!

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