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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deep fried seafood platter with Gulf shrimp, scallops, grouper and hush puppies.
Ted Peters smoked mackerel. [/quote]

I read however many pages with a shrug and then I met you. You are my culinary soulmate. Let’s run away to Gulf Shores or Pensacola Beach together. I’ll let you have some of my deep fried crab claws. But you gotta get your own hush puppies [/quote]

Ah, the fried seafood platter.  For people who don't really like seafood.  [/quote]

Because of course there is only one way to prepare any ingredient and you must choose the one right way or else reveal yourself to be unworthy of it.

You are so sophisticated. We all want to be you.

Happy now? [/quote]

Don't be dense.  There are lots of delicious ways to prepare shrimp, scallops, grouper, and all other fish and seafood.  [b]But when they are fried, the dominant flavor is fried breading and oil, not the underlying food itself, which is so obscured as to be almost indiscernible.[/b]

Don't get me wrong, I love fried food of all kinds.  But a fried seafood platter is on no way a must try before you die.  [/quote]

NP. That is a personal opinion. I really disagree with the bolded. Fried chicken and fried clams do NOT taste the same. I love seafood in MANY forms from raw to fried and back again and would def put a fried seafood platter on a list of quintessentially american food experiences, which is what this list REALLY is IMO.

MY list (which I'm sure is not comprehensive) would be:

Cracked crabs and crab cakes from MD (crab cakes from almost anywhere else don't count and ideally you get a md crab cake sandwich from like, a guy with a truck and a hot plate at a fair with a lot of tartar on top). 
PS: This is a controversial take but I strongly prefer crabs to lobsters so feel fairly meh on maine AND connecticut style lobster rolls

I WOULD put fried clams and clam chowder from MA on the list, full bellied clams of course

Beignets from NO and some version of creole seafood/rice/sauce dish from NO.

Tacos from Texas

BBQ from KC

Deep Dish pizza from chicago and NY pizza from NY

Conch fritters and smoked fish dip from Florida (also a grilled mahi mahi sandwich)

Some deeply unhealthy southern meal of your choosing (chicken fried steak or fried chicken with biscuits and mac and cheese and collard greens in georgia with peach pie for example)

A REALLY good cheeseburger and french fries (there are many a place to acquire this from)

A diner breakfast for sure

Gotta try a hot dog, honestly I would go with a gas station hot dog haha

Funnel cake covered in powdered sugar at a boardwalk

Very buttery popcorn at a movie theater

A smores over a real fire with ingredients from a grocery store

American chinese food

Poke in Hawaii

I feel like I am missing the fresh produce/fish of California so some element of that would be on here but I can't think of what the quintessential thing would be. I DID have an AMAZING spicy oyster shooter at a restaurant in Santa Barbara. [/quote]

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