Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Lobster Tails and Halibut Cheeks

Lobster Tails and Halibut Cheeks (reply)

islandgirl — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:17:43 +0000

You should have said sooner! I'm in the Cowichan Valley, and there's other regular boarders around too! We could have had a board party.
Next time!

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Skink — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:37:32 +0000

lol....love it. We're heading to Nanaimo Aug long weekend. A little place outside the city

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Little Guy — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:09:30 +0000

I used to live in lovely Cowichan Bay. I now live in a tiny place that is not too far from a little place that is further away from a small place which is even further away from the medium sized place of Nanaimo, which we consider the big city.

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Skink — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:46:57 +0000

Yes LG, I was born and raised in Cape Breton NS and you were absolutely considered poor when we brought lobster sandwiches to school. Where on Van Isle do you live?

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Talley Ho — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:59:59 +0000

Not bad!

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Yandosan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:36:41 +0000

People do a lotta crazy stuff just for the halibut.

Lobster Tails and Halibut Cheeks (reply)

Little Guy — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:37:36 +0000

About 30 years ago I worked with a woman who grew up poor in Nova Scotia, Canada. She said she was envious of the children at school who had bologna sandwiches at lunch time.

Her family was so poor all she got for lunch was lobster leftovers from the previous night’s dinner.

In the 1980s I went to a fish monger in Vancouver, BC where I lived. Once in a while they sold “halibut cheeks”. They were kind of expensive but I loved them and bought them as a treat when I could.

My father was an avid fisher. I told him about halibut cheeks as if they were a new discovery. My father laughed. He said that when he was a young man dogs would come to the docks when commercial boats came with their catches. The fishers would throw the halibut cheeks to the dogs because the fishers didn’t want them.

True stories.

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Yandosan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:25:22 +0000

Just like people wouldn't touch lobsters 100 years ago, cockroaches of the sea. How times change.

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Little Guy — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:15:14 +0000

They are live.

I once bought live spot prawns off a boat (OK, at the dock) on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

When I took them home and prawns “looked at” my wife, she wouldn’t eat them!

More for me.

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Talley Ho — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:19:40 +0000

They are live.

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John Redcorn — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:33:14 +0000

Interested. As a SE Texan, we eat our share of crawfish. How are they preparing them?

Or, is that price for live crawfish?

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Talley Ho — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:42:23 +0000

They are currently available on Monday and Wednesday in front of Bodega Aurerra.

These are the real things, down from Infernillo on a motorcycle early in the morning.

120 pesos a kilo and very yummy!!!