Dear Austin Restaurants: Stop Hoarding Seafood. The prices don’t need to go up yet. Just when Austinites are leaning toward better eating habits, cloudy economic forces push us back to the McNugget lifestyle.
We know British Petroleum spilled the oil. We know British Petroleum are idiots. We know that the oil is not drifting into Texas fishing grounds. We know that the oil is not affecting most deep sea fishing. We know that some restaurants are hoarding in anticipation of a seafood shortage in the gulf of Mexico and that is driving prices up.
We know you are buying gulf seafood en masse because you are worried about the prices rising. We know it’s all sitting in your deep freeze getting covered in frost. At the moment, nothing has changed along our coast. If the wholesale prices had gone up for real, great. Beat us up. I’ll still bite. But, if you are raising your prices on speculation, I would rather have a BP executive served up on a platter. Believe me, I prefer to eat the shark that bit me.
Looking lovely. I take it y’all went to Rockport or something? We really enjoyed our quick hop to Corpus. Large bodies of water soothe the soul.