Seafood in the Pines

enormiss

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Did you guys that like them hard realize they were stale? From the chapter:

"They crumble easily when fresh, but they can become almost as indestructible as hard tack if they are allowed to go stale...

Not really, but I could see how they would be.
Before Allen's for me was a place called the Oyster House in Conshohocken (gone now, not the current one on Fayette)
Always left out in an open bowl on the tables with a container of horseradish.
Maybe that's why I liked Allen's, reminded me of the past.

Speaking of horseradish, pepper palace nasal napalm!
 
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bobpbx

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Not really, but I could see how they would be.
Before Allen's for me was a place called the Oyster House in Conshohocken (gone now, not the current one on Fayette)
Always left out in an open bowl on the tables with a container of horseradish.
Maybe that's why I liked Allen's, reminded me of the past.

Speaking of horseradish, pepper palace nasal napalm!
Speaking of places, Cornelius says "The first place in New Jersey I met them was at the Hotel De Crab in the bayside at Beach Haven, a seafood restaurant on stilts over the waters of the thorofare".

 

ecampbell

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Not really, but I could see how they would be.
Before Allen's for me was a place called the Oyster House in Conshohocken (gone now, not the current one on Fayette)
Always left out in an open bowl on the tables with a container of horseradish.
Maybe that's why I liked Allen's, reminded me of the past.

Speaking of horseradish, pepper palace nasal napalm!
Yes! I forgot about eating them with just horseradish. TOCs were the best.
 

smoke_jumper

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Just saw these at my local Shop Rite today and made me think of this thread

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enormiss

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They look like the real deal... Location of said shoprite?
Website says Medford seafood has them

Now as an accoutrement :)
Came across this place accidentally while vacationing in TN
Used to have an outlet in Depford and AC but closed so mail-order now.
If you are in eastern TN stop in the tasting room, you'll find something you like!
 

smoke_jumper

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They look like the real deal... Location of said shoprite?
Website says Medford seafood has them

Now as an accoutrement :)
Came across this place accidentally while vacationing in TN
Used to have an outlet in Depford and AC but closed so mail-order now.
If you are in eastern TN stop in the tasting room, you'll find something you like!
Berlin Shop Rite had them.
 

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I don't want to hijack the thread, but where can a guy get a nice bowl of snapper soup nowadays?
Last winter I tried I frozen quart from Captain Chuckies in Runnemede & was disappointed ☹️
 
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RednekF350

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I don't want to hijack the thread, but where can a guy get a nice bowl of snapper soup nowadays?
Last winter I tried I frozen quart from Captain Chuckies in Runnemede & was disappointed ☹️
Lucien's Old Tavern in Berlin. Oh, wait a minute, That was 50 years ago..:(
All kidding aside, Ollie Gator's in the shopping center on the old Berlin Circle still has it. It's not bad, but it ain't like what Lucien's used to serve. Locals used to sell the snappers to them at the kitchen door in the summer.

The best snapper turtle meat I ever ate was made by the late Tony Pitale from Hammonton. He was the cook for the Monday night dinners at Rosedale Gun Club down the street from me. A couple of times a year they did fundraiser dinners and one of them was snapper and spaghetti. It was huge chunks of delicious oven roasted snapper in tomato gravy served over linguini. The snapper flaked with your fork. Tony was an amazing wild game cook. He would cook up all kinds of things with whatever anybody would bring in. He died in 2013.
 
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That's a great memory! I recall going to Lucien's as a child, pre-teens (I'm 58) so that would've been pre-fire & when Raul's Army Navy was around. Thanks for the Ollie Gators tip. My go-to for it used to be Cap'n Cats in Verga.
 

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I just grabbed a bag of Oyster Crackers at the Shop Rite Blackwood Clementon Rd X College Dr. I didn't see them at the cracker or soup isle, but in the seafood dept.
 
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I don't want to hijack the thread, but where can a guy get a nice bowl of snapper soup nowadays?
Last winter I tried I frozen quart from Captain Chuckies in Runnemede & was disappointed ☹️
If you are ever in Seaville, NJ (small town outside Ocean City) there is a restaurant on Rt. 50 called Dino’s Diner. They make the best snapper soup I have ever had in South Jersey. And that includes all the high end restaurants in Cape May and Atlantic City. When they ask you if you want sherry, say yes! You can also get a quart to go, if you want.
 
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