You should try JO’s seasoning - it’s the “real” old bay that the crab houses actually use. There are 2 - one for seafood, and the other especially for steaming crabs. TBH it tastes like Old Bay/Ole Bay tastes like JO’s.
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A PA brand, like so many.
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I’ve had Utz chips in Maryland and PA, but not the lardy ones. I’ve enjoyed Lardycake in the UK.
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I’ll order some of that, especially since my Old Bay is a couple years old. Thanks for the recc!
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Well, it is a mystery.
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Damn you @Phoenikia , you just reminded that need to find my jar of horse fat.
I know it’s around here somewhere in real life.
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That may also work on a lobster roll. I may have to throw out my can of OB too. Not that I buy lobster. The cost is outrageous. Being born on Long Island, I used to eat lobsters regularly for free when I was a kid. My uncle and my cousin had traps years ago. It used to be poor mans food. In fact lobsters were ground up and used as fertilizer long ago. My former Chinese technicians when they first came here told me they used to get lobsters by the bushel from the Sound and free chicken wings by the garbage bag full as discarded waste from butchers. This was probably in the early 70’s they said. Chicken wings were considered waste. I think the same could be applied to pork ribs at one time. All I know now is that these things are wanted by everyone these days. The Chinese techs also said that there are no more lobsters in abundance here because we Asians overfished the waters. But definitely in the 1960’s and prior it was all scraps or lawn food. One mans junk is another mans treasure is over now.
That is truly hard to believe that was still happening into the 70’s! I love both lobster and chicken wings - yum. Pork ribs too.
Lobster was certainly not cheap in NJ in the 70s.
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It’s been expensive ever since I realized it was delicious, probably late teens (70’s) It was always listed at market price. But of course I live(d) pretty far west, usually. My impression has been it was poverty food back in the 1800’s, maybe into the early 1900’s?
I was always a crab and shrimp guy, owing to Texas vacations.
Still like them more than lobster, though I’ve never lived where they were native to the area.
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You and me both. My first chicken wing was in 1995. Never wanted to try them prior to that. Always was told “who wants to eat bones”. Then my coworkers said just try one. And then the rest is history. I’ll take wings, ribs, and lobster any day. Brisket was another poor mans food until the wonderful idea came about where they smoked the meat. Makes anything tough - tender and delicious. It’s all in the prep.
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I love all shellfish, and regularly crave it. H likes it, with the exception of shrimp, but he’ll eat it. I think it had something to do with him working at a Chinese restaurant while a teenager. He cleaned pound after pound as you can imagine, and is quite fast at it. Anyway, I’m always lobbying to have seafood for dinner! 
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Try this… I’m betting it will change their mind about shrimp. (c;
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Thanks - saved it in my recipe app. H will eat shrimp, just not that enthusiastically, to my dismay. Your recipe sounds good though, and I also realize I’m craving shrimp Creole. Will put them both on the list to make soon.
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Making LOADED fries tonight. Starting with a bed of Nathan’s famous crinkle cut hot from the oven. Topped with jalapeno cheddar sauce, ranch dressing, ketchup, and real bacon bits or chopped fresh bacon. Should come out fantastic as usual. Pairing that side dish with homemade Gyros. The meat is the famous and best tasting KRONOS brand no longer sold anywhere on Long Island. 6 ozs. of it. On a Flat Bread white pita. Very soft with the bubbles. Then comes the sliced tomatoes, some sliced white sweet onion. And then a super tasty homemade Tzatziki (yogurt) sauce from scratch. I found the best recipe that matches the authentic sauce from the Greek restaurants in the 1980’s and made a batch last night. So good you could eat it as a dip with the flat bread or any pita. Does not last long in my house.
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Kronos used to make/sell gyros kits. I, surprisingly, found one on peapod delivery early in the pandemic. Alas, no more.
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I can get those at WinCo.
In the absence of actual Greeks, a pretty good substitute.
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They used to have them at Safeway decades ago. I was thrilled then. Now I just use Trader Joe’s gyro meat and tzatziki, get pocketless pitas, and tomatoes and onions.
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Actually realized that the gyro that is being referred to should also go in the American food column. I recall seeing a story a while back that a Greek immigrant in Chicago created the frozen cone of ground meat that spins around and around. I like it but have come to prefer the shawarma/al pastor style vertical spit where there’s layers of seasoned meat that are shaved off rather than the mystery meatloaf.
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