If she stayed in business by selling imported shrimp, she would be helping out the local shrimpers.

They'll need buyers once they start shrimping again in a few hundred years.

downstairs: Thanks for expediting that BP money, Obama.

Yeah, that sure would have expedited delivery of the gulf shrimp she wanted.

sigdiamond2000:
On behalf of all Americans, I would like to personally apologize to BP for this woman's disgraceful display of thuggery. It's a tragedy of the first order that a private corporation can be subjected to this kind of emotional shakedown.

Done in 2.

I think McDonald's is still hiring....

downstairs: Thanks for expediting that BP money, Obama.

People really have unrealistic expectations of how fast things can happen. And when government gets involved, take whatever it would otherwise be and multiply by four.

And yet, Americans remain silent. The most passive group as long as they get their cheap gas and American Idol garbage, most couldn't care less, especially for all the sea life that died.

Sin_City_Superhero: Wait...I thought that po boys were made with shrimp. You're tellin' me that they're made with restaurant owners?


No, no, no, subby is saying that the oil leak is a wonderful seafood chef, what with all the delicious po-boy sandwiches he's making for all those hungry restaurant owners.

/article? what article?

Gentlemen, the singularity is beginning

Iyeck: And yet, Americans remain silent. The most passive group as long as they get their cheap gas and American Idol garbage, most couldn't care less, especially for all the sea life that died.

We've be a "Me me me" culture for 30 years now. We were taught that fighting for a cause is wasting time that you could be using to stab co-workers in the back and cheat on your taxes.

Iyeck: And yet, Americans remain silent. The most passive group as long as they get their cheap gas and American Idol garbage, most couldn't care less, especially for all the sea life that died.

^^^^^^^^^
Douchebag.

OH I get it. The joke is that po-boys sounds an awful lot like poor-boys and this oil spill is making local po-boy makers poor.

Iyeck: And yet, Americans remain silent. The most passive group as long as they get their cheap gas and American Idol garbage, most couldn't care less, especially for all the sea life that died.

Are you calling American Idol garbage cheap???

we are all so farked.

I drink their milkshakes.

m1ke: OH I get it. The joke is that po-boys sounds an awful lot like poor-boys and this oil spill is making local po-boy makers poor. Derp derppidy derp derp

FTFY

Irony is the Mother Nature Network lamenting the inability of fat Louisianans to rape the wildlife of the Gulf of Mexico. Maybe lingering fears of contamination once this shiat gets cleaned up will help fisheries recover a bit before their eventual downward spiral into the sewage treatment plants.

m1ke: OH I get it. The joke is that po-boys sounds an awful lot like poor-boys and this oil spill is making local po-boy makers poor.

Actually it does come from the term "poor boy".

//Some think it may come from the French pour boire or "peace offering" But I think they are nuts.

I understand that she wants buy local, but business has to adapt to market conditions. Even if it means buying imported seafood for the next thirty or forty years why we wait for FEMA to respond and begin the clean-up.

May they sue and win.

This shortage is killing the All you can eat lobster feasts in Orlando. I went there they can't get crab, oysters, and the lobsters are TINY. I didn't even bother with crawfish as it pissed me off to no end that they didn't have crab claws so I decided to shovel as much lobster into the gf as I could.

/hates lobsters
//ate 10lbs of crablegs
///enough oysters to feed Keyna
/still bitter about the claws

Did the writer of this article really need to use *this* restaurant as an example? They make it seem like the place had been a staple in the community, and they point out multiple times that it is (was) "the only restaurant in this rural town", and then briefly mention in passing that the place had only been open for 6 months. I was under the impression that generally a high percentage of restaurants fail within the first year or so, even when they are thriving and can get the ingredients that they need relatively cheaply and easily, just due to the inherently fickle circumstances that go along with running a restaurant. Surely there was a more established restaurant that is suffering because of the spill that they could have profiled that would have been far more dramatic...

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely not trying to marginalize the spill, not at all--I'm just wondering why this journalist settled on this particular restaurant.

JMMODE: I understand that she wants buy local, but business has to adapt to market conditions. Even if it means buying imported seafood for the next thirty or forty years why we wait for FEMA to respond and begin the clean-up.

Take some basil, chili powder, salt, pepper and some cayenne pepper, grind it really fine in a coffee grinder. Pat that on some sliced chicken breasts let stand for 30 minutes, bread then fry and make a po'boy.

= yum.

:P less expensive than the shrimp version too.

JMMODE: I understand that she wants buy local, but business has to adapt to market conditions. Even if it means buying imported seafood for the next thirty or forty years why we wait for FEMA to respond and begin the clean-up.

In a podunk Louisiana town, there's a decent chance that increasing the price to account for the market price means a slow death spiral as business dries up.

"had to close the restaurant for good Tuesday after just six months in business."

Oh boo-hoo, there are PLENTY of restaurants that don't last that long.

It would've been sad if it was a 50 year old restaurant/institution...

theyipper: "had to close the restaurant for good Tuesday after just six months in business."

Oh boo-hoo, there are PLENTY of restaurants that don't last that long.

It would've been sad if it was a 50 year old restaurant/institution...

90% of all startups fail within the first year. Of those that survive, 90% don't make it to five years. Making money is HARD.

Blues Lounger: we are all so farked.

Yep.

Parents letting their kids play in the ocean full of oil (new window)

Subby will enjoy hearing this headline repeated in Jay Leno's monologue tonight.

breaking news everyone - BP engineers figured out the solution, and quickly put it in place. They proposed, brought in a vegas preacher, got married, but a wedding ring on the well - and it instantly stopped putting out!

I feel for the lady but....

Umm, buy Texas Shrimp at ~$3.99/lb (16-20 count)? They come from the same waters, just ours are not poisoned, yet. I bet she can get them even cheaper from her distributor. Does she consider TX shrimp to be an import?

And she can get crawfish tails as well, they cost about the same as shrimps and are raised inland in rice paddies. A deep fried crawfish tail po-boy is a fine thing indeed.

And catfish make a fine po-boy as well and they are also raised inland.

As for Oysters, well she is screwed. Texas oysters are not as good or cheap.

Dammit, now I am hungry.

On behalf of all Americans, I would like to personally apologize to BP for this woman's disgraceful display of thuggery. It's a tragedy of the first order that a private corporation can be subjected to this kind of emotional shakedown.

Agreed. In fact, I am reminded of the brownshirts here. Will the demonization of BP never end?

Ball of Confusion: theyipper: "had to close the restaurant for good Tuesday after just six months in business."

Oh boo-hoo, there are PLENTY of restaurants that don't last that long.

It would've been sad if it was a 50 year old restaurant/institution...

90% of all startups fail within the first year. Of those that survive, 90% don't make it to five years. Making money is HARD.

fartacus: The real ones are made with oysters. The Peacemaker.

Actually roast beef and shrimp po-boys are the most popular with locals in NOLA, but the tourists like the oyster and shrimp the most. The original po-boys were made with beef, not seafood.

Me I like oysters and hot sausage link po-boys at the royal street deli, but I would count as a tourist.

Oh my God, I just thought of the perfect t-shirt.

IamAwake: breaking news everyone - BP engineers figured out the solution, and quickly put it in place. They proposed, brought in a vegas preacher, got married, but a wedding ring on the well - and it instantly stopped putting out!

rimshot

To all the folks quoting local prices, she was likely getting shrimp dirt cheap. Pay in cash to the folks on the boat, you could get shrimp and other seafood for a fraction of what it costs even 30 miles down the road. So, yeah, I could see other stuff being expensive is she was offing $3 or $4 po-boys or something.

I don't understand. The headline said "po-boys", but the person in the article was clearly a woman.

MindStalker: m1ke: OH I get it. The joke is that po-boys sounds an awful lot like poor-boys and this oil spill is making local po-boy makers poor.

Actually it does come from the term "poor boy".

//Some think it may come from the French pour boire or "peace offering" But I think they are nuts.

I know a lot of old timers who clearly articulate poor boy, even if the menu says po-boy.

Arguably, the first Poor Boys were made by a restaurant in the French Quarter to feed the families of the street car workers who were on strike sometime in the first half of the last century. The people would say, here come the poor boys to get their lunch.

"I can get you guys some crawfish." Costner said as he pointed to the large centrifuge device on the bow of his vessel. "This machine was designed to fight for you."

"...just let me set up my fleet of centrifuge ships right over there."

maniacbastard: And she can get crawfish tails as well, they cost about the same as shrimps and are raised inland in rice paddies. A deep fried crawfish tail po-boy is a fine thing indeed.

crawfish in LA is fine. Actually, they're doing great, because of the cold winter, they took a while to grow to full size, so we're getting good sized fresh crawfish this late in the season

Lot's of restaurants are using crawfish to fill shrimp and oyster vacancies

pute kisses like a man: maniacbastard: And she can get crawfish tails as well, they cost about the same as shrimps and are raised inland in rice paddies. A deep fried crawfish tail po-boy is a fine thing indeed.

crawfish in LA is fine. Actually, they're doing great, because of the cold winter, they took a while to grow to full size, so we're getting good sized fresh crawfish this late in the season

Lot's of restaurants are using crawfish to fill shrimp and oyster vacancies

Exactly. Many people not from the deep, deep south or Vietnam don't realize that crawfish don't come from the 'sea'. They are fresh water animals. In the Lousiana you are looking at rice fields or the basin, but not so much the marsh.