Here's how the menu broke down:
- Raw bar with clams, shrimp & oysters
- Butlered fried shrimp
- Hamburgers, hot dogs, lobster, salads (raw bar closed)
- Dessert
I asked a server what we were having, and she gave me the line-up. Then I had a small choice in front of me: this was a clam bake (though none of the clams ended up being baked...), so it was seafood oriented. Should I plan for hamburger/hot dogs, allowing me seafood and Americana variety across the night, or should I go all seafood? How do you NOT have lobster? Given the fact that you spent the first part of the night eating seafood, are the lobster and hamburger/HD mutually exclusive?
These are all good questions, and to be honest, I normally have an answer for them. In this particular case, I used the brute force algorithm: eat it all.
The final tally looked something like this:
- A dozen shrimp
- 1 oyster (hate them, but was caught up in the spirit)
- 3 clams
- 1 basket fried shrimp
- 2 hamburgers
- 1 foot long hot dog (no bun... I'm watching my figure)
- 2 lobsters (no idea on weight; each was about 12-14" long)
- 2 servings of salad
- Dessert
I then slipped into a food coma and woke up 2 days later... hungry.