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I'm adding my vote for Gina, Chantal, and Tiffany in DC, and I'd also like to add Rachel Sergi at Zaytinya, who is responsible for my new favorite drink, the Tripoli Sunburn.

I love fried pickles but I thought your comment about spears was really weird because I find the exact opposite to be true. The chips tend to get soggy and cold much faster than the spears. Which made sense to me because the spears are crunchier in the first place. I actually avoid places that have chips. Hooters for example has the chips. Which almost everywhere has a hooters so there you go but I don't go because I want the real thing. The full on spear and if you're lucky and you're at Little River BBQ in Townsend, TN then you get the special sauce too (some sort of sweet mustard). It's absolutely the best. Chips really?!!? So confusing....

@carnivore: the guy I used to work for sold small alligator claws on sticks as back scratchers (see my previous post).

@hungryhungryhippo: email me and I'll recount the tails.

Dang. I was thinking of going to Deluxe Food Market for lunch today. Wish I saw this before. Dragon's Claw!

Looks like gator. I had alligator once at a LA Cajun music festival. Dare I say it: it tasted like chicken. Chewy, slightly goat-frog-swampy chicken, but not bad. Given the large numbers of poodle-predating gators infesting the canals of Forida, I see no reason that Chinatown (If-It-Moves-Eat-It) should not take advantage of the bounty.

i'm not opposed to eating gator, but that photo is really shocking. i think that maybe because its still got its claws, etc., or the lighting, it looks more like a poster against wild animal poaching than a butcher photo. Like seeing a monkey paw for sale in africa or something.

I've had alligator stew once. The meat tasted like swamp.

I would bet that it's gator, not croc. Gator meat is really delicious. You'll eat a pig, for crying out loud! Why not a gator? I've had it fried, sauteed, and made into sausage. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

I want a glove like that. Ok, maybe it'll be an ill fit. Maybe a backpack. I love it!

Wow, I can't believe I've missed this!!! I'll gotta check this out!

@BrianPrestonCampbell - I had alligator meat awhile back - and now you've made me morbidly curious. What stories?!

@Erin,

I am pretty sure the person who answered the phone didn't quite know about the word alligator (because most Chinese are taught about crocodiles). They used to have signs there saying "Alligator" in English and the Chinese name.

@kobetobiko: I called up the market this morning and was quoted those prices and the crocodile identity. Perhaps the gator-crocodile truth is getting lost in translation?