# Tell me of Seattle

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-of-seattle/636339>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 30, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-of-seattle/636339 "2012-09-30T23:21:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-of-seattle/636339/61 "2012-10-04T18:07:07Z")

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> [@moejoe](#):
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> Mexican food! I’ve just moved to PNW and I’ve tried every mexican restaurant in town. Even the food trucks staffed by actual mexicans serve very bland stuff. I’ve tried asking for the extra hot sauce and it’s all heat with no flavor. Is there some kind of code word needed?

Try asking in Spanish.

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-of-seattle/636339/62 "2012-10-05T22:32:04Z")

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I love Seattle-but I could not live there…the gray skies would drive me nuts. On a trip there, we spend 3 days in Seattle, then drove out to the Olympic Peninsula-we drove down the coast, and spend a few nights before returning.  
In five days, we saw the sun for about 2 hours!  
The food in Seattle is excellent…is Ella’s still there? As a New England seafood expert, I found the local clams small, but good. Fresh wild salmon is excellent…but alas, no lobster (they were introduced to Puget Sound in the 1950’s, but the local octopi ate them all up.

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