Hi Joey – please post the following and thanks for all your support. sbk
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Berry Green 2010 Earth Day Kids Clean Up and Concert!
Thanks to all the folks (families, old friends, new friends) for turning out for the 1st annual Berry Green Earth Day Clean Up and Concert! Over 10 locations around the City were spruced up by @ 15 different work groups of varying sizes ranging from 2 to 15 people! In addition to all the trash pickers, thanks too go out to the UU Church for being Clean up and Concert Central, the City of Gloucester for providing the trash bags and pick up, Common Crow for its donation of organic bananas, bakers – Janet Dickinson and Cindy Hendrickson, G. O. Water, Jimmy Lounsbury for donating his time and musical talents and to Good Morning Gloucester, The Gloucester Times, The Beacon and Cape Ann TV for their great coverage of this Earth Day event! See you next year!
Chelsea Berry
Sharon Kishida
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Popo’s Gourmet Hot Dogs on Rogers Street open.
Nate’s at Front beach open.
What used to be Frank’s Subzone now Surfside Subs on Thacher Road open.
Captain Carlo’s open
And to repeat from part I
Topside Grill open (Tuesday is Oyster night)
Top Dog on Bearskin Neck open
The Rudder open Thursday to Saturday
Lobster Pool open (see video of seafood quesadilla on this blog)
Lobsta Land open (at 5:30AM for breakfast too!)
And last but not least the Cupboard will be opening May 1.
From Fred Bodin’s suggestions I had to go to Topside Grill and Captain Carlo’s and neither disappointed. The only complaint was from my bathroom scale the next day. I may have to walk the Blackburn Challenge on the sea floor.
Topside Grill on Tuesday. Oh I love oysters. I love them so much my iPhone photo is just a pile of shells. But I did snap a photo of my martini. I only needed one of these.
Captain Carlo’s was a treat from the parking lot to the check. We were walking up and a gruff old guy was getting to the door before us. (Not really that gruff or that old but he may have pulled his share of lobster pots.) He held the door and waved us all in with a “Welcome to Captain Carlo’s!” The whole place was like that. Are these people hired as method actors to give the place the salty friendly atmosphere? It works. I can imagine on a warm night the back deck is the place to be.
Fun Fact: Captain Carlo’s is named in honor of Capt. Carlo Ciaramitaro. Now where have I heard that name before?
I really have to cut back on the caloric intake but I want to go back to all of them and hit all these new places. I don’t think I can even be called a tourist if I haven’t had the fried clams at the Cupboard yet.
Keep the names of seasonal opening coming.
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If you saw the stats yesterday you will notice the jump up from Sunday’s numbers to Monday’s numbers just as I predicted based on the trends. I wish there was a way to quantify the people that have subscribed and only get the feed at the end of the day but they don’t show up in these stats.
I know I’m probably going to get some crazy comments on this article, but this is a topic that has strangely become important to me. I love to eat meat and until very recently I could never ever imagine being a vegetarian.
Aside from chicken wings, one of my favorite things to eat is lobster. As you know, in order for lobster to be yummy, you have to buy them when they are alive and then kill them during the cooking process.
I always place the lobsters in the kitchen sink while I boil the water. I see their big eyeballs staring at me, and sometimes my son will give them names, which makes this whole situation worse. Every time I drop them in the boiling water I cry for a moment because I see them flap around, until they are suddenly still, and dead. I took the picture above as I watched them cook.
I am an animal lover. All the meat I eat comes from an animal that has lost his life so I can consume him. Am I a hypocrite for feeling this way and also eating meat? Probably. I realize we are at the top of the food chain, but isn’t there a moral obligation to lessen the pain for the animals we kill? After all, we are supposed to be of a higher consciousness, right?
Click the link above to read the rest of her blog post about how she now kills her lobsters a certain way before eating them to make her feel better about it in her mind.
I personally think that killing a lobster is killing a lobster just as killing a cow is killing a cow and unless you are consciously malicious in your mind when doing so than it’s all semantics and that we’re meat eaters- get over it. But I do appreciate that in the end she’s gonna eat that goddamn lobster!
I’m gonna eat that lobster, I’m gonna eat that burger and I don’t really care how it gets to my plate as long as it’s tasty.
Oh and BTW I don’t believe that by electrocuting them by way of Crustastun or putting them in the freezer and then slicing them open with a knife is any more or less humane than boiling or steaming them. I think these other methods are more about making people like Diane fell less guilty. If that’s what it takes go for it.
Good Morning Gloucester 