Dinner tonight

[petermarcus]

Gotta love spring. All the poor Alaskan crab fishermen may be alive or dead or injured, but the season is over and the snow crab legs have finally made it to Florida. $6.99/lb at our local grocery, which is a helluvalot better than the $11.99 a couple months ago, and they look cleaner and fresher as well.

Grouper and snapper, on the other hand, I don't get it. $20/lb, and they're local. My wholesale fish places won't even sell it, the price is too high, but I spoke with the fishmonger at my local grocery, and she was grumbling about it. Apparently, the chain requires that grouper is for sale, no matter what the price, at every store in the county. And, she said, since it's $20/lb, it probably won't sell, so they'll probably toss it in the garbage on Monday. So why is the wholesale price so high? Maybe because the grocery stores stock it at any price and then toss it? Man, this bugs the fisherman in me. I could go offshore, with marine fuel at $4/gallon, and probably catch it myself cheaper than my local store.

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[ohmyhead.livejournal.com]

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