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Originally Posted by MMM
The US is a big place. Living in a Pacific coastal state I would say this in not the case.
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You people living along the coast don`t count. :P
I`ve had some excellent seafood along the coast north of San Francisco. I`ve also had some great stuff in Massachusetts and Maine... But in most of the states between it would be difficult to say the same. I would say that the average list of "seafood" for someone in a state that isn`t in close proximity to the water is pretty short. The number of people I`ve met whose only encounter with seafood has been processed fish patties / sticks and canned clam chowder far outweigh those who have had a wide exposure to seafood. Travelling around the non-coastal states in the US had my husband gagging at maybe 75% of the fish products we encountered, and he was shocked at the stuff being sold in regular grocery stores - going so far as to call it rancid. (His father runs a seafood packaging company so he`s fairly picky, but still...)
I never said that you couldn`t get decent seafood in the US, or that no one ate a wide variety... But that the normal "seafood" box seems to be smaller than that of Japan - likely because everyone in Japan lives relatively close to the water while the majority of the US does not.