Well, gee whiz, lobsters are mucho dinero down here and blue crabs, which are plentiful, have gone up in price since the fishermen discovered they can ship them north. Used to get them for a buck a dozen a few years ago and now they're 5 to 7 bucks a dozen. I would just have to take a chance on ingesting some pesticide. How can you make a seafood gumbo without crab meat and barbecued crab is also good. George penny x stamm wrote: > > . > Lucinda, > <<<<<< > >we used to get something in north Africa we called 'Biology 101 > final exam review stew'...identify it and you don't have to eat it. > This dish made eyeballs look good.>>>>> > > Sounds like it would have been fine on The Survivors . . .. > > >>>>>>>>>> > >We used to buy heart when I was in university - cheap source of > >protein. After all the Mercury scares I have less of a taste for > any organ meat or fresh water fish. > >>>>>>>>>> > > It just so happens that we are hearty eaters, favoring foreign > foods, and have never worried at all about cholesterol, salt, or > whatever grabs the public every so often. And it is our good > fortune that both of us have excellent cholesterol counts. The > only thing which stopped me short was last year's poisoning > of all the lobsters on the east coast. We abstained for a year. > Now we are confronted with a blue crab poisoning in this > area -- the government is being sued by the fishing brotherhood > which claims that it is the spray being put out to combat the > West Nile mosquito. That makes no sense to me at all, but > I certainly will avoid the crabs for a while. > > Never a dull moment, is there? > > Penny, NY