I felt sick the entire time in Mobile and I always figured it was all the fried things. (When you are going to Olive Garden specifically to have a salad you have problems.) Then 20 years later I learned I am allergic to oysters, so it wasn't Alabama's fault.
Allergic? Yikes! Because we all definitely spent a fair amount of time hobnobbing with our bivalve buddies down in Mobile Bay. Speaking of which, what was the name of that pink-painted place with the gigantic, nay, kaiju-sized oysters?
I'm so glad you wrote this! Yes, the food is legendarily bad for you. Yes, the people are polite. Yes, everything there is beautiful. I was raised on grits, BTW, courtesy of my Southern mother. I love 'em, but they are basically a vehicle for butter/cheese/gravy.
Me: I don’t like grits. They’re tasteless.
Spouse: Not so, they taste like butter and salt.
I mean they're right, but couldn't I just lick a Kroger Salted Butter Stick?
That’s a Minnesota diet.
I think it was the Pink Pelican in Gulf Shores which seems to be gone now. From hurricanes? Or because I ate every oyster?
Pink Pelican, that was it! Now that you mention it I do remember hearing it was undone by Hurricane Ivan, back in Ought Four.
I felt sick the entire time in Mobile and I always figured it was all the fried things. (When you are going to Olive Garden specifically to have a salad you have problems.) Then 20 years later I learned I am allergic to oysters, so it wasn't Alabama's fault.
Allergic? Yikes! Because we all definitely spent a fair amount of time hobnobbing with our bivalve buddies down in Mobile Bay. Speaking of which, what was the name of that pink-painted place with the gigantic, nay, kaiju-sized oysters?
<<the Infant Mystics trapped the demonic entity Dormammu in an endless time loop of key jangling and face making>>
HOLY FUCK! THE TELETUBBIES???????
I know, but on the bright side, they're trapped for eternity in there WITH him, so...
<<angry mob toting buckets of hot tar and sacks of goose down>>
Don't threaten ME with a good time...
<<I barely escaped Alabama alive.>>
Are you sure? Alabama is, after all, where dreams go to die.
Dreams like American democracy.
Alabama has clearly metastasized.
I'm so glad you wrote this! Yes, the food is legendarily bad for you. Yes, the people are polite. Yes, everything there is beautiful. I was raised on grits, BTW, courtesy of my Southern mother. I love 'em, but they are basically a vehicle for butter/cheese/gravy.
Thank you. Something to look forward to. :)
Fortunately, we won't be shooting in Alabama. But Maryland is south of the Masie-Dixie. :)
I always forget that about Maryland. But then I’ve only been there once, and just long enough to beat up some crabs with a hammer.
Just don't eat the soft shells. :)
That green stuff is ... yech ... :)
That which does not kill us makes us <s>stronger</s> fatter.
The irony of this posted by "Cheez Whiz"....
Write what you know.