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[Guest 7042500]

Your favorite game sucks.

Oh, wait, this is supposed to be UNpopular opinions.

 

[MGibster]

As you get to the higher end of cost/snobbery, Denver specifically has exceptional seafood, especially compared to it's neighbors, thanks to the international airport.

Sure, but most people can't afford the higher end. I know my family couldn't in the 1980s.

I routinely drive an hour one-way to eat at LJS after the local one went belly-up. They are without equal.

And I live less than 500 miles from the Gulf coast.

We have one in Little Rock and I went there earlier this year. The shrimp were a bit tiny, but I got that good LJS flavor I've come to love so much. I go once every few years just because the LJS is a little out of my way.

 

[Autumnal]

Pronoun trouble, @Gronan of Simmerya - my game is superb, your game sucks, their game is irrelevant.

 

[MGibster]

It was the best of the series, IMO. And a beautiful change of pace when it came out.

I personally prefer Alien, but this is like trying to choose between Lynda Carter and Salma Hayek. No matter which you prefer, your impeccable tastes cannot be impugned.

 

[Autumnal]

Aliens exists in one timeline, Alien and Alien 3 in another. Think of it like Earth-1 and Earth-2, or Earth-616 and Earth-50. There was some version of Aliens’ events between Alien and Alien 3, but it had more casualties and was presumably extra awful all the way around.

Alien Resurrection is a possible but not inevitable future from either of these timelines. Prometheus and Alien Covenant are out there in the multiverse.

 

[Gradine]

Pronoun trouble, @Gronan of Simmerya - my game is superb, your game sucks, their game is irrelevant.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Depends where you are. I'm in the Greater Los Angeles area, and it seems like there's mariscos places every four feet.

That’s how it is NOW.

What was the availability of Mexican seafood in LA the 1970s-80s?

I have enjoyed Mexican food since I first had it in 71-72. But as a practicing Catholic, I can tell you that during Lent, your meat-free options In Mexican restaurants in Texas, Washington, Colorado and Kansas (yeah, I know, I know) back then were things like cheese & onion enchiladas with salsa…and not much else.

We moved back to Texas in 1982, and didn’t see much difference. Spinach & mushroom enchiladas with a sour cream sauce showed up, but the first shrimp fajitas I saw were in 1991, and fish tacos in 2000 or so.

These days, fish & shrimp dishes are on the menu in every Mexican restaurant I can think of except the fast-food chains, and I know of at least 3 Mexican seafood restaurants. (One of which is TERRIBLE!)

 

[Autumnal]

That’s how it is NOW.

What was the availability of Mexican seafood in LA the 1970s-80s?

Mijares, in Pasadena! But then after that the next one I knew of was Pescado’s, in Santa Barbara.

Edited to add: I grew up eight blocks or so from Mirajes’ north location on Allen Avenue, and then after college lived a couple bus stops along from Pescado, and yes, I am aware it was pure luck being near two good places to get Mexican seafood before the ‘90s.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mijares, in Pasadena! But then after that the next one I knew of was Pescado’s, in Santa Barbara.

Edited to add: I grew up eight blocks or so from Mirajes’ north location on Allen Avenue, and then after college lived a couple bus stops along from Pescado, and yes, I am aware it was pure luck being near two good places to get Mexican seafood before the ‘90s.

So, two places separated by how many miles? In one of America’s biggest metropolitan areas With a huge Hispanic population and relatively close to the coast?

That’s not exactly “not rare”.

That probably puts LA at the bleeding edge of introducing Central & South American seafood to the USA…which shouldn’t be a surprise, all things considered.

 

[Autumnal]

No, it’s really not. And at that, Pescado’s was run by a group of White ex full-time surfers. They’d lived in Baja for a decade or so, then felt like settling down but not giving up the kind of food they’d been enjoying. They knew guys who’d become full-time fishermen, so they were set that way. They’d have been mutants anywhere.