Ouch! I’m thinking they aren’t appreciating that. 
Being armless for a time, how do they feed themselves?
Not since they shut down my lizard tail, earthworm and starfish buffet anyway…
Stone crab harvesting is unusually gentle: these crabs naturally shed limbs and can regrow a claw to full size in about a year, so licensed fishers twist off one (ideally just one) legal-size claw and toss the crab back alive, where it clots the wound within minutes and keeps feeding, fighting, and reproducing. Florida’s strict rules—closed seasons, size limits, and protections for egg-bearing females—keep populations thriving, making the fishery one of the world’s most sustainable. Compared with boiling a lobster or netting fish, taking a claw from a creature built to regrow it is about as close to cruelty-free as seafood gets—short of going vegan.
Wait a minute! I thought MAGA places like Florida wanted to get rid of those government regulations that stifle businesses!
Ooh, now that’s a good one
Caviar is only recently available from living sturgeon but I won’t argue too strongly that they’re meat.
I’m a bit surprised no one has mentioned the McRib sandwich. Apparently some people get all excited when McDonald’s brings it back.
I had one once. I won’t say it was bad, but I never ordered it again.
I was underwhelmed by the McRib sandwich.
Both. it is the freshness. The meat is fresh the tomatoes are quality, the lettuce is torn on premises, the buns are grilled, etc. Better quality and employees that care.
By your description I’m not seeing any difference between In-And_out and Five Guys. Has anyone had both and can they tell us if they’re similar?
I’ve had both in the last month, I think 
. Primarily because this thread got me to visit an In-N-Out the other day.
I like Five Guys just fine, but the flavor profile is subtly different. In-N-Out burgers are smaller in circumference (~3.75 vs 4 to 4.25", yes I just looked that up), with thinner patties and more browning. A standard burger have just their house version of 1,000 Islands - no ketchup, mayo or mustard unless requested and fewer toppings available generally. Five Guys are just a little blander, which I chalk up to relatively less browning/Maillard reaction to surface area.
Five Guys has better fries IMO and always a lot more of them. They also have hot dogs and I like the occasional hot dog. But given a choice of cheeseburgers, I’d probably usually pick In-N-Out.
Five Guys does has far more choices for condiments and toppings, yet somehow doesn’t have thousand island or similar “secret sauce” although you could just ask for ketchup, mayo, and relish. I also believe In-N-Out doesn’t even have mayo.
They’re both good, but quite different. The main difference, IMO, is that Five Guys has a far larger list of optional toppings. In fact, it is the only fast food chain I’m aware of that has chopped bell peppers as an optional topping, which I love.
Five Guys absolutely REFUSES to have 1000 island dressing. Which is weird, and makes me not like them.
Which makes something like 1000 island, but it aint the same.
Five guys does have better fries. In& Out has better service- by far.
And they seem to have specific guidelines on where each condiment goes, because I got annoyed with them once because they couldn’t understand that I wanted all three on the same side of the bun.
I remember being in an interestingly authentic diner-type seafood place somewhere in the Massachusetts countryside that put a great big bib on you and brought you giant fresh lobsters with vats of melted butter, and it was fun, but I really don’t like lobster all that much and crab even less. I’m also not fond of eating something that resembles a giant insect, and in fact shares some of the same DNA with cockroaches. Shrimp I can handle, and just about all sushi, even urchin and eel in moderation when beautifully presented. (To be fair, I believe eel served as sushi is always cooked, not raw, and IIRC, anointed with a heavy, deeply flavourful sauce.)
Yeah. One of my rules of thumb is I pay the cook to disassemble the animal and turn it into food. No (or at least not much) self-service disassembly for me.
Lobster, and crab, are much better if you get them fresh, close to where they were harvested. I love Atlantic lobster from Maine to Massachusetts. And i adore dungeness crab in Seattle and Vancouver.
That’s also delicious. I don’t eat butter with any of my shellfish, i find it overwhelms the delicious flavor and makes it kinda greasy.
Crawfish is pretty bland and mostly tastes like whatever sauce it is in. Rock lobster seems pretty bland, too, but maybe i haven’t eaten it in the right place.
I agree. A friend who likes it tells me the point is the maple syrup on the chicken, fwiw.
Totally with you! I don’t understand the appeal.
Totally agree with this, too.
Random thoughts:
- Most often I’ll order the filet because it’s the smallest cut available. At my age, I neither need nor desire 20 oz. of ribeye.
- Crab (especially Dungeness) is wonderful. Lobster, not so much.
- I’ve already mentioned Roscoe’s.
- Five Guys has better fries. That’s about the only way they beat In-N-Out.
- Winchell’s beats KK hands-down.
I generally enjoy foods that require a bit of effort to consume. Crab, lobster, nuts in the shell, artichokes, etc. The other day I had a linguine in clam sauce with the smallest clams I’ve ever seen. The clam in each one was about the size of a lentil. It was almost silly, but there were tons of them, and the sauce was delicious. The whole experience was a delight.
I’d much prefer to take half of that ribeye home for leftovers. Cold leftover steak is excellent.