[rightly_dividing]

The seafood is what I miss the most after moving from the Al. coast. Seafood here is just not the same. For one thing, they cook it to death; and I have not yet seen a fresh seafood market, only grocery store stuff.

I had a coworker that was neighbors in Alabama Port with an oysterman that brought back the saltiest oysters of any. He had a specific reef that was just great tasting and he sold them very cheap to my coworker.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I have not yet seen a fresh seafood market, only grocery store stuff.

When we lived in TX in the 1970s (Quail Valley, Missouri City on the SW side of Houston) they used to pack it in ice and bring it up from Galveston -- fresh caught -- and sell it from trucks by the side of the road. Or, the fish mongers would drive through the neighborhoods and sell it door to door.

Gubmint probably passed an ordinance preventing that. I bought a lot of Gulf shrimp that way.