Road Food--The Good, the Bad and the Unmentionable

Yesterday lunch was the gustatory highpoint of our trip to St Pete thus far. We are currently trying to digest the rubber scrambled egg, decent but oily biscuit, and tasteless pancake served up by the roadside joint I always call Country Kitchen. ( To their credit, they offer real butter, and actual Canadian maple syrup. Too bad the food that lies under such ingredients is so flabby.)

But Shaggy's, a seafood and drop dead marina-views-place perched on pilings--the restaurant moves, gently--on the Gulf at Pass Christian, Mississippi, was a treat. It is one of the only establishments serving up anything on this coast flattened by Katrina. I mean flattened--a few new places across the coast road from the water have risen up, and a couple more clearly have been rebuilt--but there are dozens of foundations sporting For Sale signs along that route between Bay St Louis and Gulfport.

I ate a first, for me---crawfish spicy mashed potatoes, on which was perched a huge crab cake. The combo was girdled with a perfect roux. Oh yes.

The unmentionable?   ---------------------------------------------

Comments

[Hawaii Travel and Vacation Guide]

Is it! so sad Thank you for sharing with us.

[Boat holiday yorkshire]

So bad.Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

[genevieve]

So what was the unmentionable????
Curious.