Steak from a good steak place: medium
Steak from a good restaurant, but not necessarily a steak place: medium well
Steak from any other place: well done

Good pork is hard to beat, unfortunately too many people cook all the moisture out of it which is easy with how lean hogs have gotten.

Scallops are perhaps my favorite sea food,lobster wouldn’t be top 10.

Although I'm not a pork chop fan, I tend to agree with you and dolphin more and more. Lobster is really only good and true tasting bathed in butter. Oddly, I've turned into an oysters, rock shrimp and salt & pepper crab guy.

And prime steak makes virtually every kind irrelevant , unless someone is skilled at cooking lesser cuts at truly high heat.

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A few years ago (8 maybe) My family went down to Savanah/Charleston area on a vacation. We traveled between the two towns but stopped at a low country boil place. I got some weird platter that was a LC boil but had scallops and oysters too. I’ve been kicking myself ever since for always avoiding oysters. Damn, that was a good meal.

Not surprising. I came from a family of boring/Bad cooks. Oysters were just for shock value to me until my late 20s when I aggressively expanded what I ate. And then I discovered grilled oysters

Now I take them however presented in an area near where they're either harvested or eaten with glee.

But strangely enough, the first things I eat out of a boil now(before crawfish) are corn and potatoes.

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Sometime a few years back I made a decision that when in new places I’d eat the local fare. It’s served me well. On a localish basis I try to find new things on appitizer menues when I go out. Usually it works out, occasionally it comes home for the dog.

I’ve never been super picky but decided after eating with locals who had tons of things they wouldn’t eat that I should think of expanding. He horizons a bit more.

I mean really, just how much steak, chicken and burgers or bacon can one eat without boredom.

Plus if you eat like a local, you get welcomed like a local more often than not. Which can on it's own face be interesting

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And drinking like a local is almost always a winner.

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I've wanted to try a Lowcountry boil for years now. Sounds like extremely my scene.

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I tried shrimp and grits with gravy for the first time in SC a few years back and had my mind blown. I had always thought grits would suck and found them especially weird served as a dinner starch. I could eat that stuff every day now.

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I read that this is actually going to be a thing. Look for it on store shelves as early as later this month. My wife and her son mix these together
and I think it is kind of gross but my guess is I will be tasked with buying some of this as soon as I see it for them to try. They also probably
should have come up with a better name than Mayochup

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YES! Recently had these for the first time and they were shockingly good.

You can buy it now, Goya makes it. Then eat it all in front of that kid.

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Boy, you guys have gotten a lot of mileage out of that ice cream story.

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everyone has been wrong in this thread.




the steak talk was disheartening too.