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Went to One Eyed Jacks today with the wife.
Short version - meh. I won't be going back - there's nothing there I can't get for less, elsewhere. Parking is terrible and most items aren't marked with a price. You can FIND the price by looking in the case and trying to find the matching price on the board - but after we got out sandwich - we just left. Took a while just to get soup and a sandwich.
It's new, it's clean, it's nice - but I see no need to go back.
Short version - meh. I won't be going back - there's nothing there I can't get for less, elsewhere. Parking is terrible and most items aren't marked with a price. You can FIND the price by looking in the case and trying to find the matching price on the board - but after we got out sandwich - we just left. Took a while just to get soup and a sandwich.
It's new, it's clean, it's nice - but I see no need to go back.
Curious about the crab leg price. For seafood, are they competitive with Bradfords?
I wasn't comparing too closely - from what I could see they had no bargains and the sandwiches were way overpriced.
Don't get me wrong - the Reuben was overstuffed - but for the bucks I paid, I could have had a lot more elsewhere.
The frustrating thing for me was, everything except the desserts and sides were in a window case, like in a deli. Most of them had no price - you had to squint at the big menu and find it, or on the chalkboard. The sides and desserts, same thing - no price you had to go look for it somewhere on the board or the large menu posted. It typically took me a minute to find a price. Annoying. My wife said the crab soup and crab balls were about 25-50% higher than just going down the street to Stoney's.
They also had a number of cheeses and regular meats - sort of. It's not a meat counter, so the meats were like corned beef and pastrami.
Of course, they also served hot food which I think was the slow part. They don't have a layout conducive to buying cooked food - you give a name and wait, like at a deli.
Maybe I expected too much - I was expecting Crabknockers. Or Nick's, with seafood.
Thanks. The prices are a off-putting to me. The Lighthouse has gotten super expensive, too.
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The fellas that own The Lighthouse, own One Eyed Jacks. Now ya know why the prices are high.
The fellas that own The Lighthouse, own One Eyed Jacks. Now ya know why the prices are high.
Old news. They also ran Clarkes Landing prior to rebuilding the Lighthouse.
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They do now.
You know, the weird thing about most seafood - especially FISH - is that most people I’ve known don’t like it. Sometimes they like shrimp or scallops or clams or oysters. I like most seafood. But I accept that my kids don’t, my wife doesn’t, and a slim majority of my friends - all my life - don’t. And I lived in Boston in the 80s. And near the Chesapeake most of my life.
And I can remember when beef was the most expensive thing you could buy. Fish on Friday was a bargain because it was CHEAPER than beef or chicken.
Somewhere in the 70s it got more expensive and I never guessed why. I presumed either people got better at preparing it - or demand increased with dwindling supply - but it always baffled me that most fish or shellfish is higher than more expensive cuts of beef.
I had a good friend from Taiwan whose father was a fisherman - and was poor. Because fish was cheap. Being a con artist he was good at convincing his classmates - in typical Tom Sawyer style - that if he only had fish in his lunch - and they didn’t - it MUST be more valuable. So he’d let everyone have a taste for bigger pieces of THEIR lunches. Such was the situation in my childhood. Fish was cheap.
What happened?
And I can remember when beef was the most expensive thing you could buy. Fish on Friday was a bargain because it was CHEAPER than beef or chicken.
Somewhere in the 70s it got more expensive and I never guessed why. I presumed either people got better at preparing it - or demand increased with dwindling supply - but it always baffled me that most fish or shellfish is higher than more expensive cuts of beef.
I had a good friend from Taiwan whose father was a fisherman - and was poor. Because fish was cheap. Being a con artist he was good at convincing his classmates - in typical Tom Sawyer style - that if he only had fish in his lunch - and they didn’t - it MUST be more valuable. So he’d let everyone have a taste for bigger pieces of THEIR lunches. Such was the situation in my childhood. Fish was cheap.
What happened?
I grew up eating fish. I had a co-worker from Taiwan and she STUNK! And she was a face talker. We tried to avoid her at all cost. Even after she used the restroom.
I'm obviously not "most people". Grew up loving every kind of seafood..continued that in major fashion working in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, etc etc the last 40 years...and still have seafood extravanganzas here on SGI every year.
I like a lotta stuff my family won’t eat. Still trying to figure out how I will persuade them to try the lamb, catfish and flounder in the freezer.
I was able to get them to try veal, but that’s because my wife can make shoe leather taste like a gourmet meal.
growing up a "poor farm kid", we ate anything and everything. We raised beef and veal and nothing went to waste...beef tongue sammiches in the brown bag lunches....pan fried shortbreads; mmm good. I still do hogs..including the sausage and scrapple. Hunted a lot of rabbits and squirrels as a kid; Mom knew how to cook them up real tasty. Quail, pheasant, goose, duck...our open country fence lines used to harbor a lot of pheasants and quail back in those days. Neighbor raised domestic quail....to this day I can't enough of pickled quail eggs. Family started raising sheep not many years after I left the farm so we got a whole lamb processed every year. Spent more than a few weekends out on Chincoteague, filling the coolers up with flounder. I have to admit there were some things identified as seafood that I couldn't ID to this day...the Chinese eat anything they can find. There isn't much I have not eaten...and not much I don't like.
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Grew up eating mostly fish we caught, by the stringer. Mostly Flounder, Perch, some Spot, infrequently Croaker (too bony). From spring to fall.
Grew up eating mostly fish we caught, by the stringer. Mostly Flounder, Perch, some Spot, infrequently Croaker (too bony). From spring to fall.
Years ago there was a great documentary series about China, I think it was called Heart of the Dragon. The narrator said there's a saying about the Cantonese that they will eat anything with legs except a table, and anything with wings except a desk. The episode went on to show things like the way they use a chicken - save its feathers for pillows, meat and organs to eat, bones dried and ground for medicine - there was nothign left when they were finished. Later in the same episode they showed how they kept pigs in their basements and collected the methane to light their stoves (that they used - to COOK THE PIGS).
When I first started working in the very southern part of South Korea, it was easy to see that many of the little farm houses used methane to cook or heat with, but it was piped to the house from a composting pit some feet away and not inside the house.
Anything I've ever read about was like that, never heard of methane generation IN the house.
*BOOM*
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My guess is, it's a very, very meager supply of gas, which is why they've grown to use woks and stir fry - VERY quick cooking.
Shew. You realize how wide you opened the door for sick jokes....right?