User post: Loafin': How to dress,eat,and live like a Southerner

Last night my family and I got a hankerin' for some sea food. Now when I say Sea food i DO NOT mean

the boiled kind or the over processd , over fried , greesy stuff you get at most sea food resturants. No

I mean real seafood the kind that is cooked at home. Shimp (de-vained) fried golden brown in Mama's

old frying pan, Fish (flounder or maybe even catfish) fried or grilled to perfection, and sides. Huge baked

potatoes, dripping in real butter, fresh green lettuce mixed with other veggies for the perfect green salad,
and cole-slaw. And no southern meal would be complete without Sweet Tea. (Not sweet iced tea, just

plain sweet tea. the ice is a given you don't have to say it.) Yes that is what we wanted. What we got

could not have been farther away from the truth. There just Happend to be a local returant re-opening

dowtown (after being closed for re-modeling) that had a seafood platter on the menu. We , stupidly

decided to try it out. Upon walking in we imediatly spotted our hair dresser, (a good sign we thought,

wrong.) we seated ourselves at a corner both in the back (the non-smoking section) and scaned the

room. new paint, new tables, it all looked very nice. So far they have an A in apperiance. The little girl

who was our waitress brought our teas and then left, giving us time to look over the new menu. Directly

we ordered and waited. First up the salad. small in size, but okay looking we dug in. My sister found a

hair in hers uh-oh..not good. We glanced at eachother and just let it go. Hey, it happens we thought. T

hen came the eyelash. no-way we thought. Strike two. Then our mama found dirt in hers. we started

laughing. then begging. "Mma please don't say anything please...(hahaaha)" "There is dirt in the salad

what do you want me to do eat dirt?!" (giggle.) Okay after we calmed down the meal finally came. The

shimp, small and soft were not de-vained,and only lightly fired. Strike 3. On top of that the fries and

hushpuppies tasted exactly the same. Like greese. "You're..Out!!!.." The highlight of the meal was the

peach cobbler. It was the only thing worth even putting to your lips. Next time we want seafood we will

be going with our gut and cooking at home! anyway More Later.