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On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 17:14:27 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 2/5/2017 3:01 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
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>> The weekend meal was $13.99.
>>
>> I chose the current specials of pecan crusted fish, golden deep
>> fried shrimp and carved lemon rosemary steak and the scallops skewers.
>> (I don't remember the kind of fish or steak). Every item but the
>> scallops were outstanding. Juicy, tender, hot, fresh and not
>> overcooked. The scallops were an education. There were 6 or 8 of
>> them on a wooden skewer, they were grilled. The scallops each were
>> about the size of a kidney bean, maybe a smidge larger -- no joking or
>> exaggeration -- really. Of course they were overcooked, dry and
>> tasteless. How could they not be. I didn't know that scallops came
>> that small and if they did that it was legal to harvest them at that
>> size. I mean, it's the killing of babies, right?
>>
>> The steak was about 1.5 inches thick and rare in the true meaning of
>> rare (hot and dark pink)

>
>Bay scallops are small. Considering the offering of scallops and
>shrimp. the price is reasonable.
>
>We went to a GC a few years back. It food, lots of it. Not much else
>to say about it. There are a few people that really pig out at places
>like that too, getting their money's worth.


I am familiar with bay scallops. These were much, much smaller.
Janet US