We decided to pack our bags and head down to Myrtle Beach, SC for a long weekend. This was DOOMED from the get-go for two reasons: a) I was coming down with the plague and wasn't smart enough to realize it and b) Myrtle Beach is really an attraction for golfing retirees or nubile young spring-breakers. I am neither of these things (yea.) and should know better. But I didn't think ahead and so off we went to lovely SC.
Have you ever been to a beach community? A cheesy beach community? Then BINGO, you know what Myrtle Beach looks like. Five billion t-shirt shops, beach wear stores, sleezy hotels, and Calabash seafood buffets. Calabash seafood buffets, I later learned, are buffets that serve fried seafood that is made in the style used by several famous seafood restaurants in neighboring Calabash, NC. Who knew? Basically, there are about 20 all-you-can-eat buffets in Myrtle Beach, each calling themselves "Calabash Style" which just means fried, fried, fried seafood, hush puppies, and other stuff. If you can bread it, they fry it. The fun thing about these restaurants is that they each try to outdo the others by having the biggest sea creatures on their buildings. Notice USMCMan's tiny little head in the corner of the above picture. USMCMan isn't a small guy. But compared to THE GIANT CRAB BUFFET CRAB... he is. I particularly enjoyed the jaunty sailor hat on THE GIANT CRAB (shriek it out!).
One buffet sported an orca on its sign. Very disturbing. Does that mean that they served fried killer whale? We didn't stop to find out.
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Holy flying flounder, Batman! That is one huge crab! Where are the companies that make those things? Sorry to hear your waining health put the kybosh on the Calabash. Better luck next time I guess.
I would love to go on a factory tour of a giant-crustacean-making-company!
Besides THE GIANT CRAB there were also GIANT buoys, GIANT sharks, and GIANT pirate-ish guys leering gleefully down from billboards. It's like the Vegas of BIG SEAFOOD.
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