East coast vs west coast

Chemicalkinetics · January 22, 2019, 4:52am

Then when are going to do a North vs South?

Google_Gourmet · January 22, 2019, 4:54am

Just today, Costco about 40m north of San Francisco had some of the largest lobster claws I’d ever seen.

3 1/2 lb elbow and claw, extrapolate into weight of a whole beast… PIERRE jr!!!

shrinkrap · January 22, 2019, 4:58am

Which Costco was that?

Scubadoo97 · January 22, 2019, 4:58am

Got you covered. How many do you want?

shrinkrap · January 22, 2019, 5:04am

I get live ones at the local Asian market, then I cook them myself. I usually wait until they are down to about $6.00 a pound, but that hasn’t happened in awhile. They were $7.99 this weekend.

An article about Current prices

Google_Gourmet · January 22, 2019, 5:05am

Rohnert Park. Cooked Dungies at best I recall $5.99/lb. On the smallish side though, probably about 1.5 ~ 1.75 lb average.

meatn3 · January 22, 2019, 5:07am

Or how about the middle of the US?

bobcat · January 22, 2019, 5:07am

Yes, our SIL get them live at a Chinese market. I don’t know the current price.

brisket44 · January 22, 2019, 6:29pm

I grew up in NY but have lived in San Francisco for the past 20 years.
I get back to NY 1-2 times per year and typically get bagels with lox, pizza and hit Katz’s for pastrami. I also cook up a lobster feast and clams in various forms at my mom’s house on Long Island. The West Coast manila clams aren’t as good as East Coast little necks.
San Francisco has upped its pizza game considerably since I first moved here though, so pizza is less of must have these days. When I get back to SF from trip I’m usually craving a burrito. Dungeness crab is great, I only buy them live from the docks and steam them up. I love blue crab but it is a lot more work to get meat out of them than Dungeness.

bbqboy · January 22, 2019, 6:47pm

Depends on where you decide the line would be.

Geography and state lines don’t do a good job of delineating cultures, especially 2 decades into the 21st century.

shrinkrap · January 23, 2019, 1:19am

I can’t.

bobcat · January 23, 2019, 2:24am

I’d not even heard of them til a few years ago. Incredibly sad.

shrinkrap · January 23, 2019, 3:39am

Nice!
My dad’s family goes back at least to slave records in Alabama, my husband’s family first gen in Atlanta. My sister’s in-laws in N.C. might be somewhere in-between. My son now lives in Florida!
Lots of differences! But I suppose that’s true in the various places east and west coast as well.c

bobcat · January 23, 2019, 3:52am

This is likely off-topic so excuse me. In 1976 I moved from Atlanta to San Francisco. At times someone would say “oh, you’re from Georgia” and I’d reply “no, I’m from Atlanta.” Huge difference in so many ways. Even bigger if you try to stereotype the entire South. Food relate? I never heard of “pulled pork” when I live in Atlanta.

shrinkrap · January 23, 2019, 4:30am

Oops! Just noticed I was supposed to choose one. Pastrami.

C.Hamster · January 23, 2019, 4:41pm

In and Out Burger

bbqboy · January 23, 2019, 8:06pm

First asparagus. From Mexico

PHREDDY · January 24, 2019, 2:34am

I never realized you were an original “718”

PHREDDY · January 24, 2019, 2:39am

Think Utopia Bagels… in Whitestone

corvette_johnny · January 24, 2019, 2:43am

That’s some good looking stalk right there.

I’m glad this is turning out to be a cool thread. My goal was to see what people crave from the other side of the country. There are awesome recommendations from each coast and I’m hoping to try some of these during my travels. I never knew the west had the sourdough category. I don’t eat much but next time I am out there, I will seek this out.

How about abalone? I’ve only had it a few times. I do not seek it out on the east too much.