Hourglass District

[spenser1058]

8 minutes ago, JFW657 said:

I'd be happy if I could get some really good boiled peanuts there. 

Call in to Bianchi for his show on 96.9 The Game - I bet he can recommend some.

I wish there was a smoked mullet place here- I haven’t seen the stand out on SR 44 in NSB in ages. Time to Amtrak down to Ted Peters in St Pete (I wonder if the ferry’s running this time of year across the Bay).

Edited July 6, 2022 by spenser1058

[JFW657]

11 minutes ago, spenser1058 said:

Call in to Bianchi for his show on 96.9 The Game - I bet he can recommend some.

I wish there was a smoked mullet place here- I haven’t seen the stand out on SR 44 in NSB in ages. Time to Amtrak down to Ted Peters in St Pete (I wonder if the ferry’s running this time of year across the Bay).

I can't say for sure, but I'd think you could get smoked mullet over in Brevard County somewhere.

A lot of mullet over there in the intracoastal.  

[spenser1058]

5 minutes ago, JFW657 said:

I can't say for sure, but I'd think you could get smoked mullet over in Brevard County somewhere.

A lot of mullet over there in the intracoastal.  

Yummy!

[AmIReal]

On 7/5/2022 at 8:15 PM, JFW657 said:

I can't say for sure, but I'd think you could get smoked mullet over in Brevard County somewhere.

A lot of mullet over there in the intracoastal.  

Smoked mullet is mostly a west coast Florida thing.

[spenser1058]

14 minutes ago, AmIReal said:

Smoked mullet is mostly a west coast Florida thing.

Maybe you never went to Norwood’s in NSB before it went upscale. They had the smoker going for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and had folks lined up.

I might also note my family hails from the Atlantic coast from the low country of SC through the Golden Isles and the First Coast to Orlando for and has since the late 1700’s. I was raised on it.

More likely, the carpetbaggers from up north who regard mullet as merely a bait fish invaded the region and had no taste for it. They’re the same folks who have no appreciation for sweet tea, which, as Dolly told us, is the “house wine of the South”.

Publix, btw, used to sell it until about a decade ago. Like the disappearance of Bean Brothers sausage, the more local items were pushed out for higher profits from slotting fees and the like by national manufacturers, the less unique the chain became.

Edited July 8, 2022 by spenser1058

[AmIReal]

8 minutes ago, spenser1058 said:

Maybe you never went to Norwood’s in NSB before it went upscale. They had the smoker going for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily and had folks lined up.

I might also note my family hails from the Atlantic coast from the low country of SC through the Golden Isles and the First Coast to Orlando for and has since the late 1700’s. I was raised on it.

More likely, the carpetbaggers from up north who regard mullet as merely a bait fish invaded the region and had no taste for it. They’re the same folks who have no appreciation for sweet tea, which, as Dolly told us, is the “house wine of the South”.

Norwood's still smokes fish, but not mullet. I've caught it often in the Carolina's, but it really likes more temperate water and seems to really spawn in the estuaries along the Gulf. The only good smoked mullet I've found on the east coast of Florida within the last 2 years was a dive somewhere near Mims.

[JFW657]

38 minutes ago, AmIReal said:

Smoked mullet is mostly a west coast Florida thing.

That might be true, but you can get it anywhere in Florida that's near a coast.

Here's a screenshot from a restaurant review page of a place in South Brevard, called The Chubby Mullet....

 Mullet is everywhere. 

[spenser1058]

As it turns out, @JFW657is our mullet winner. Wild Ocean Direct in Titusville and Port Canaveral has it:

https://wildoceandirect.com/pages/locations

@AmIReal, you are correct that the Lower Gulf Coast is where the bulk of commercial harvesting for mullet takes place in Florida, from Manatee County (home of @dcluley98!) south, according to FDACS.

Also, apparently Stuart’s Smoke Shack on FL44 in NSB is alive and well - he mostly sells on Saturdays and I tend to get to NSB during the week. He’s apparently on Facebook but, of course, my only social media these days is the fabulous Urban Planet.
 

Edited July 8, 2022 by spenser1058

[dcluley98]

Mullet is harvested in the mangrove bayous and brackish areas where I grew up along the south side of Tampa Bay (Terra Ceia, Palma Sola, Cortez/Sarasota Bay) and I am sure several areas similar to the south in Charlotte and Fort Myers areas.  I would assume they would have it also near any brackish/inlet areas on the east coast, such as Merritt Island, Smyrna, Tomoka, etc. 

Mullet Season in Manatee/Sarasota/Charlotte is a big deal, but more for the Roe than as food fish. They use them as bait-fish, but harvest for Roe when season hits, and then use the rest as smoked mullet so as not to waste. 

[spenser1058]

For some odd reason, the otherwise wonderful JB’s Fish Camp in Bethune Beach doesn’t have smoked mullet and they really should. @jrs2, you have pull in Volusia - get on that for us, will you? <g>

[JFW657]

Try some smoked amberjack if you ever get the chance.

Very nice. 

[codypet]

So F&D has been closed for sometime now with a big banner that says they're preparing for a new baby and will be reopening in the new location.   I also noticed OUC was moving the power lines from the east side of Bumby to the West side by 7-11.  I assumed once F&D opens, they'll begin demo on the car wash, F&D, and Tony's Auto Repair.

I am curious what the plan is for the Mobil station.  The pumps and the tanks are still there and they had just put a price sign up just before they closed.  So are they going to keep the gas station or not?  I'd imagine if they had no interest in keeping the gas station, they would have pulled the tanks out.  No?

Edited July 11, 2022 by codypet

[HankStrong]

One of my biggest issues with F&D was the janky seating.  The new location should eliminate all of that.  They opened that back porch a few years ago and it helped, but the temp could swing wildly back there.  

 

I'm not sure how much of the plan will actually happen, but there was  a plan here once upon a time that showed all sorts of stacked container food places and fire pits and drinking areas.

[codypet]

3 hours ago, HankStrong said:

I'm not sure how much of the plan will actually happen, but there was  a plan here once upon a time that showed all sorts of stacked container food places and fire pits and drinking areas.

 Where F&D currently stands?  Last discussion, they were going forward with that 5 story apartment complex.

In fact their permit for it was approved in April.

https://permitting.sjrwmd.com/ep/#/prmtInfo?offclId=171627&seqNo=1

Edited July 11, 2022 by codypet

[HankStrong]

1 hour ago, codypet said:

 Where F&D currently stands?  Last discussion, they were going forward with that 5 story apartment complex.

In fact their permit for it was approved in April.

https://permitting.sjrwmd.com/ep/#/prmtInfo?offclId=171627&seqNo=1

I had forgotten this included both sides of Jessamine.  

This supersedes the plan I was referring to.  That one was for more food & drink places where F&D currently sits.

[spenser1058]

Someone loves the Clemons Produce on Curry Ford Rd:

“Thank you to Clemons Produce on Curry Ford Road for the Jubilee watermelon. It was huge - 27 pounds and the sweetest watermelon I have ever eaten.”

From The Sentinel 

[Jolly Roger's Crackers]

1 hour ago, spenser1058 said:

Someone loves the Clemons Produce on Curry Ford Rd

Someone else loves Clemons Produce (and he wears a pirate hat and might be a family member of the order of Psittaciformes). Been my wheelhouse "fruit and veggie" spot for years. Good folks there...and plentiful earth-grown stuff as well.  Long live the Dover Shores shopping center! No worries. Cheers.

[JFW657]

3 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

Someone loves the Clemons Produce on Curry Ford Rd:

“Thank you to Clemons Produce on Curry Ford Road for the Jubilee watermelon. It was huge - 27 pounds and the sweetest watermelon I have ever eaten.”

From The Sentinel 

Sounds like a helluva melon.

I wish I could find such a melon.

As a matter of fact, I would go as far as to say that I am....

....over it.  

[spenser1058]

I’m waiting anxiously- we haven’t had an update on the Shell station for a week or so!

[codypet]

I haven't been down that way in like 2 weeks.  I'll swing by this weekend.

[JFW657]

Stopped at Winn Dixie this afternoon so I snapped a couple of pics....

Seems to be coming along nicely.

Should be open by what.... September?  

[spenser1058]

15 minutes ago, JFW657 said:

Stopped at Winn Dixie this afternoon so I snapped a couple of pics....

Seems to be coming along nicely.

Should be open by what.... September?  

Zoom! Zoom!

Was it a Winn -Win?

Edited August 4, 2022 by spenser1058

[JFW657]

1 hour ago, spenser1058 said:

Zoom! Zoom!

Was it a Winn -Win?

They jacked up the prices on their soft drinks.

Probably to cover the cost of all the BOGO deals they're running this week.

They always do that. Put a bunch of stuff on sale then mark up the prices on a bunch of other stuff. 

[spenser1058]

10 minutes ago, JFW657 said:

They jacked up the prices on their soft drinks.

Probably to cover the cost of all the BOGO deals they're running this week.

They always do that. Put a bunch of stuff on sale then mark up the prices on a bunch of other stuff. 

Oh, dear. Publix is bad about that and I notice Target is getting more promotional, too, to offer those $15 Circle Rewards if you spend $75.

I much prefer ELP, but as we saw with both Sears and JCP when they tried to dial back the discounting, it’s almost impossible to go back once you get your customer base hopped up on those artificial highs.

[codypet]

Circle K at Crystal Lake.