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"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> "bulka" > wrote in message
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>> Lobster in Utah?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Sure, you can get anything flown or frozen anywhere. Probably can get
>> "sushi" at a gas station or 7-11 in Provo, but that's not food.
>>
>> Look at a map, dude. How far are you from any place a crustacean
>> could live? You want to eat anything that traveled that far on ice in
>> a train or stagecoach?
>>
>> I'm sorry, but any idiot who goes into the desert looking for seafood
>> gets no sympathy from me.

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> You're the idiot... many Las Vegas eateries serve what's unquestionably
> the widest variety of hours fresh from the seven seas seafood on the
> planet.
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> http://www.harrahs.com/casinos/rio/r...et-detail.html


I grew up in Las Vegas. By the time I was twelve, I knew more about more
foreign foods than most twelve year olds in the US. The buffets of old used
to have crab, shrimp, lots of stuff they don't have today unless you pony up
big bucks.

Steve