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8893 said:
Remember there used to be a legendary all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in Rhode Island named Custy's?

40+ years ago, it used to be a huge family event to go there once a year. As soon as we left, we'd start planning our eating strategy for the next year.
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I'd never been, but I first heard of here on BY. It only closed 10 years ago.
 
8893 said:
Remember there used to be a legendary all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in Rhode Island named Custy's?

40+ years ago, it used to be a huge family event to go there once a year. As soon as we left, we'd start planning our eating strategy for the next year.
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Yup!

LOVED that place,

Andre the Giant went through 112 lobsters are some such craziness there.
 
8893 said:
Remember there used to be a legendary all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in Rhode Island named Custy's?

40+ years ago, it used to be a hug
8893 said:
e family event to go there once a year. As soon as we left, we'd start planning our eating strategy for the next year.
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Many, many years ago, we sat next to a table of URI football players at Custy's. Looked like linemen. Remember them celebrating their 100th lobster (one claw culls). Back then Custy's allowed one lobster and 4 stuffed shrimp per trip to the buffet table. Also served steamship round among other meat offerings. We noticed they always had a piece of fruit on their plates to cleanse the pallet.
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August_West said:
Andre the Giant went through 112 lobsters are some such craziness there.
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storrsroars said:
What do I know. I come from the other end of the state where we think lobster rolls are stupid and where Andre the Giant only drank beer :D
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I recall a bio-doc stating that he self-medicated his backpain with a 5th of vodka daily and it barely gave him a buzz.
 
Husky25 said:
I recall a bio-doc stating that he self-medicated his backpain with a 5th of vodka daily and it barely gave him a buzz.
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I worked right next door to WWF HQ when they were still on Summer St. I never saw Andre at any Stamford bars though. He used to frequent Oliver's in White Plains, where I hung out occasionally as I lived in PC then, and was known to down two cases of Heines on a "normal" night.
 
Exit 4 said:
My parents returned to Maine last summer. They had a similar take as yours. Maine seafood = pathetic scam.
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ur on to something here. i like Maine very much, and spend time at kbunk (hehe 'k-bunk' -lotta truth to that one too.), tho not much this season so far. walkin around town there for years, im always like 'what's wrong with u people? as if the chow here isn't bad enuf (i prefer that semi diner place in town), when r u folks gonna get on the pizza train? mg's pal tried to open a joint "Pizza with a Purpose' but got shot down by zoning cuz it was an old building, and they were sketched cuz the oven was going to be wood-fired. the 'purpose' was a play on words for their 'porpoise' thing. and, being from Connecticut, that girl is all crunch city, ya know, gluten free, vegan, etc. i was like 'no sausage? no pepp? are u trying to guarantee no business even in a town with no za?'
the hotel across the street from the crib (world famous! yeah, for what? lousy food?) i had a nice incident there last year. for some reason, pizza and/or fried food call for a pop. so ordering sum fried fishdish there, i ask for a pepsi. *nigerian waiter guy sez 'sure.' i asked three times 'is it a pepsi? that's the one i like.' he gets a bit buggy, but sez 'yes sir, pepsi it is.'
and i remind him 'no ice, please.'
brings me a coke with ice, and lemon.
'what's this dude?' rarely, if ever, do i get into it with a waitperson (they're just trying to make a living, too) unless they're a total putz. this guy was a total putz, and acted like everyone should be thrilled just being at that joint. 'i live across the street jack, and only come here for that reason, certainly not this food.' most of the others up the street and into town are also bad, yet they sure know how to charge.
now, i don't want this guy to get in trouble, but sum boss hears him jawing at me. comes over, asks if anything wrong. i sez 'no,' but putzoid whines 'he called me dude!' and whined on. now, boss is way too invested, and instead of just walking away, he gets wonky trying to 'make it better.' another putz! 2 fer 2!
im like gimme a break, dude, whatever, yet being all up in this clown show, i say something like 'ya know, ur food ain't nothing to write home aboot.' (i guess that they don't like it when others settin around the pool and tables hear stuff like that. not my problem.) another waitlady, who we know pretty well, comes over, whispers to boss and waitguy something, and they vamoose, while she handles the table.
leaving later, waitguy is too close nearby, all glaring and flexing, so i just have to walk up to him and say 'in America, there is a yuge difference between pepsi and coke.'

*nigerian waitguy. there is absolutely zero help available in kbunk nowadays, and they're all freakin out, even tho many businesses have boosted their formerly miserly wages. iffn they had any brains, they would build some sro's or such so folks could make the move up there for the season. college kids don't come anymore, so some businesses with living space bus them in from foreign places.

on the udder hand, i do recall that bourdain guy once saying that the best restaurant in his life was some old house up there, with an even older chef/owner, also kinda moody iirc.
 
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A couple buddies saw him at the bar at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich ~1987-1988.

Among their comments:

No matter what you thought beforehand, you cannot comprehend how massive he is (was) until you see him.

He couldn't pick up a drink like a regular person, his hand was too big. He had to come in, palm facing down, parallel to the bar top, put his thumb and index finger on the glass and then roll his hand upward. He obviously had been doing that for so long by then it was second nature to him and he did it as quickly as someone would pick up a glass normally.
 
8893 said:
Remember there used to be a legendary all-you-can-eat seafood buffet in Rhode Island named Custy's?

40+ years ago, it used to be a huge family event to go there once a year. As soon as we left, we'd start planning our eating strategy for the next year.
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Used to be an annual ritual for us too!
 
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www.ctinsider.com

List of ‘America’s 30 Best Lobster Rolls’ features two from CT

Abbott's Lobster in the Rough in Noank and Lobster Landing in Clinton are two Connecticut restaurants that made the list.
www.ctinsider.com www.ctinsider.com


-> Two Connecticut restaurants' lobster rollsare on a list of the country's best, sharing space with entries from Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island — and well beyond New England. In a feature published on MSN, food website Gourmandize shared its picks for the nation's 30 top lobster-in-bun creations, with categories like "Best Classic", "Best Innovative" and "Best Modern."

Abbott's Lobster in the Rough in Noank was named "Best Connecticut-Style Hot Lobster Roll," with a blurb mentioning its three portion sizes of "buttery lobster bliss": "famous" (1/4 pound), "OMG" (1/2 pound) and "LOL" or "Lots of Lobster" (one full pound.)

Lobster Landing in Clinton made the list as "Best Seafood Shack Lobster Roll," with the writeup mentioning its "sizeable, hot, super buttery lobster roll with pleasant views of the harbor" and its weathered shack, which has retained its "old-school charm."

The list naturally includes several restaurants from the Northeast, but also some creative takes on lobster rolls around the country, like a Los Angeles lobster roll with green curry and Thai basil served on a charcoal bun. The feature also spotlights rolls from unlikely geographical points like Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago and Park City, Utah. <-
 
Now this is how you do a lobster roll :D


Was watching Pirates game just now and they brought one to the booth for the announcers to dissect. Apparently it's got a lot of lobster meat.
 
8893 said:
www.nhregister.com

Hot vs. cold lobster rolls: At CT eateries, warm and buttery reigns supreme

Connecticut lobster roll lovers' preferences may be summed up in two words emblazoned on a T-shirt local seafood shack employees wear: "NO MAYO."
www.nhregister.com www.nhregister.com
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"I am a Connecticut purist, which is for me just lobster and butter. That's my personal preference," he said. "I think canned tuna fish deserves mayonnaise. I don't think $10.50 a pound — or whatever it is these days — fresh lobsters, that you have to work so hard to get the meat out, deserve that sort of treatment."


Great line.

I feel the same way with most sushi rolls too. If you are making a quality roll you don't need to top it off with a spicy mayo or any other type of sauce. Should be served as is with maybe something on the side.
 
It is a scientific fact that the lobster roll is the easiest meal on the planet to prepare. It is harder to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich than it is to make a world-class lobster roll. You have to actually try to make a bad lobster roll.

All credit to Red36 in Mystic.

Their lobster rolls are absolute crap. Someone should be shot.
 
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From the perspective of Florida Gulf Coast on western panhandle.

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Just had my first of the season at Sam the Clam's in Plainville. Hot, with fries.

They serve a 4 oz. and an 8 oz. roll. The MP on the 8 oz was $49.95. Does anyone ever ask what the MP is before ordering?
 
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8893 said:
Lobster Landing in Clinton is the best.

Their sausage and peppers is also excellent (sausage from Meadow Meat in Middletown).

It's also byob.
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This is my go to as I’m never disappointed here. Johnny Ad as mentioned by others is good too. I’ve never been to Abbots but is highly by family and friends.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
I go to Lake Sebago ever August with my wife’s whole family. She had the great suggestion last year that we go pick up lobster rolls for everyone for lunch one day. 7 lobster rolls and a few pints of lobster Mac and Cheese was just shy of $200. Insanity
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Maybe it's because you called it Lake Sebago instead of Sebago Lake? ;)
- Mainer
 
BTW, on Bobby Flay's food show with his daughter he was at a West Coast seafood place talking lobster rolls. They made it point to call the warm lobster rolls "Connecticut-style". The chef said the CT rolls were much more popular.
 
We spent last week on Martha's Vineyard. We spend a week there almost every year and I never realized that cold rolls are the default in many restaurants. In several places, if it wasn't specified on the menu, it was cold.

MP was anywhere from $29 to $34 which surprised me. I expected it to be in high $30s. One thing I saw this year that I hadn't seen before is a $2-$3 upcharge for a hot roll.
 
AreBee1969 said:
We spent last week on Martha's Vineyard. We spend a week there almost every year and I never realized that cold rolls are the default in many restaurants. In several places, if it wasn't specified on the menu, it was cold.

MP was anywhere from $29 to $34 which surprised me. I expected it to be in high $30s. One thing I saw this year that I hadn't seen before is a $2-$3 upcharge for a hot roll.
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Did you get a lobster roll in Menemsha? The fish market was a good place to go and I believe cheaper than the prices that you quoted but that was a few years ago.
 
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