I did not like the snow crab. It tasted way too much like the sea. But B ate most of it, so it was all good. I did however greatly enjoy the tiny fork.
Anyways, re: the lobster and crab. It took waaay too much effort to eat it, and I doubt I will ever have it again, just cause it's so damn expensive for something that I don't think is the best food ever made, and also I like eating my food without having to dig through it first. I'd rather spend my money on some awesome chocolate or something. So that was somewhat dissapointing.
What I DID love was coconut shrimp! OMG! And the awesome coconut (and dare I say pineapple?) sauce that you dipped it into! And the regular breaded shrimp as well! I've had shrimp before, but never with any kind of stuff on top of it, just plain shrimp, and while I liked that as well, holy crap coconut shrimp is good.
here are some of the things that I ate
The bottom of a lobster tail has some crazy things going on!
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom
When we were driving home I saw Quiet girl walking her dog like a block away from my house, so of course I jumped out of the car to say hi. She came and hung out in front of the house for a bit
she asked me not to post her face, so here is her body and her dog, on my neighbor's lawn
All in all a good day. Except that I got a haircut, and I asked for it to be "chin length" and the evil haircutter cut it like 4 inches shorter! I am super pissed about this, but everyone seems to think it's cute. Still super pissed though.
Your post reminds me of a buddy of mine who for the first time ate a cheeseburger- actually I am going t6o write a post and link you- mind works fast. Anyway- you know how unkosher cheeseburgers are- he was so disappointed.
ReplyDeletei actually love cheeseburgers, as long as they are not the fast food kind and are from pubs or homemade or something. Did he have a cheeseburger from mcdonalds or something like that? I could definitely see that being a disappointment :)
ReplyDeleteIt's okay you don't like lobster so much. More for me!
ReplyDeleteWe all have different tastes.
And yes, you and B. are cuter than cute little puppies playing with cute little kittens. The world can hardly contain such cuteness.
Your babies are going to be so cute they'll have to be hidden away to prevent all the other babies from being jealous.
Just a note, Red Lobster is the seafood equivalent of McDonalds.
ReplyDeleteRather than focusing on the strictly forbidden foods such as bacon and shrimp - a great way to enjoy being nonkosher is to experience the foods that taste better by virtue of not being kosher. A good example is cheese. Kosher cheese is general sucky with limited options that all taste like variations on wax. Nonkosher (and nonprocessed) cheeses, particularly ones from Europe and artisinal cheese in the U.S are amazing. Another type of amazing food that kosher people almost never get to experience is Thai, Vietnamese and Korean cuisine. I live in Teaneck, NJ where there are a wide range of kosher options - yet even the best of them pale in comparison to the foods availabe in your average nonkosher establishments. For example, Teaneck has a glatt tex-mex BBQ place that's getting rave reviews in the Jewish press. As far as I know, it's the only one of it's kind in the world. While the food there is decent enough it tastes nothing like actual BBQ - probably because the people who run the restaurant have no idea what real BBQ tastes like - they're just guessing.
ReplyDeleteesther- I haven't kept kosher in like 10 years now. More actually...i first ate 'vegetarian' non kosher food 12 years ago. I do love good cheese :) Actually there is this crazy cheese store that I"ve been too frequently that just sells crazy awesome cheese...my foodie friend came to visit and we bought like 6 kinds of cheeses, and tasted a bunch there as well.
ReplyDeleteI grew up right near teaneck. They have a great sushi place there too, that's as good as non-kosher sushi.
dave- B thinks red lobster is the olive garden of sea food :) But we're pretty poor, so we can't really afford anything nicer than that (as it is, this dinner cost the equivalent of like a week's worth of groceries).
ReplyDeleteYou two look lovely.
ReplyDeleteAlthough your haircut is a bit too short, it does something to your face. Looks fresh and cool, plus short is in style, "The Bob", so in a little bit the length is gonna be perfect.
As per the disappointment in lobster, sorry to hear. I don't know why I am not tempted to try non kosher food.
Aw you guys is cute.
ReplyDeleteHey- here I am reading your blog I saw thru Ms Moon. I see you like festivals? Are ya coming to the Clearwater revival in 2 weeks!!!! I coordinate parts of it...it's really the best ( my opinion, of course. Good music every year!
ReplyDeletesally moon- that looks awesome, but I'm already going to a different festival that weekend (Stonehenge music festival, www.stonehengemusic.org )
ReplyDeleteIs Bookbinders still open in Philly? Do they do seafood or have I confused them with some other restaurant?
ReplyDeleteAnywho...
I can't move on to lobster until I get past the toilet paper thing. I know I'm late to be bringing this up, this was in your 2002 or 2003 summary - but what is so wrong, sinful? - unkosher? - about tearing some toilet paper off the roll on a Saturday?
And if someone was supposed to put a box of tissues in the bathroom on Saturday, don't you think that other people who used that bathroom would have had the same problem dilemna/sin/whatever that you had? And no one said anything about it did they, so maybe tearing toilet paper off the roll really isn't all that much of a sin, compared to child sex abuse, murder, and things like that.
Sorry to be hung up on this, but this is how I am - little questions stick in my mind and must be answered.
Double anywho...save up for Bookbinders - that's where you should go for lobster.
my other blog- I shared a bathroom with my two brothers (who didn't always use tp), and I think the tissues had just run out...it's 'sinful' cause it's tearing I think? And tearing is one of the 39 things that are considered "work" and that you are not allowed to do on the sabbath?
ReplyDeleteHere is an article about it: http://www.ou.org/chagim/shabbat/thirtynine.htm#4
You two are goddamn adorable! I love that I can remember when you first started dating. I got to see the process! Yay! Total kizmet :)
ReplyDeleteThe best reason not to eat kosher in my opinion is....
ReplyDeleteBACON!
Which is the vegetarian's favorite meat, so you know it's good.
I do love bacon! Since B moved in, every saturday morning one or both of us goes to the farmer's market to get fresh bacon and eggs, which we have for brunch :)
ReplyDeleteI already got our bacon and eggs for today, but B is still asleep, so waiting for him to wake up. :)
could you guys be any cuter??? want to pinch your cheeks!! sorry you were disappointedn with the sea crawlies, but its another first that you had with B, right?
ReplyDelete'B' looks pretty Jewish. In fact, I'd bet my last dollar he is.
ReplyDeleteNope, he's half Sicilian, half random mixed European. He just has the jew-fro going on :)
ReplyDeleteB is much cuter with the moustache-he looked a bit too Amish the other way ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou guys are a very cute couple!
If I can see the extremities of an animal, it really turns me off. Of course, that's my vegetarianism talking and I haven't eaten any animal flesh in 17 years, whether I could see the extremities or not!
ReplyDeleteYou guys look great.
Just wondering, now tht you're being less private on your blog, are you concerned that someone might alert your parents to it and they would read it?
well I just deleted those pictures of me and B here, now that frumsatire linked to this and all sorts of random jews might show up :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not really that worried about my parents reading this stuff. At this point, it's not like i have much to lose if they get even more pissed off at me. Plus I've had another blog for 7 years, and they've never managed to find that one (my parents are not so hip to the internets)
Just wondering: this past Pesach, did you eat bread? To me, for a Jewish individual who was raised in a Torah, this is the absolute farthest gastronomic point one can travel away from halachic observance. Did you?
ReplyDeleteOf course, you might have decided you didn't want to do this, for the same reason you might want to, say, light Shabbat candles or give Chanukah gifts...not out of any religious observance or belief in God, but just out of nostalgia or some remnant of lingering fondness/respect for your former religion. Lots of people do/don't do Jewish things for all sorts of un-Jewish reasons.
But did you?
yep, I did. I've been eating bread on pesach since sometime in college. Of all the jewish holidays I might still celebrate, pesach is at the bottom of the list (It's always been my least favorite holiday).
ReplyDeleteMy jewish holiday this past year was eating challah with honey on rosh hashana (and a pomegranite!) and I had some hamentashen on purim that my mom sent me in the mail...that's about it.