I'm not going to be eating anything out of the Gulf.

[Dr.Phool]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9227493/


Updated: 1:36 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2005

BATON ROUGE, La. - The brew of chemicals and human waste in the New Orleans floodwaters will have to be pumped into the Mississippi River or Lake Pontchartrain, raising the specter of an environmental disaster on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, experts say.

The dire need to rid the drowned city of water could trigger fish kills and poison the delicate wetlands near New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi.

State and federal agencies have just begun water-quality testing but environmental experts say the vile, stagnant chemical soup that sits in the streets of the city known as The Big Easy will contain traces of everything imaginable.

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[tk2kewl]

1. good point... how will we know w here the fish we are buying came from?

what are the species fished there exclusively and where is there overlap with other regions?

[MadisonProgressive]

4. I'd just stick to steak

[txindy]

5. I was eating more fish to avoid possible problems with beef

So much for that idea!

[MadisonProgressive]

7. I guess we're screwed either way!

:scared:

[Moloch]

9. Go-o-o Vegan!

Well... I'm going to try anyway... I certainly hope it isn't as difficult as I've been told.

[MadisonProgressive]

10. I wouldn't even know how to begin

[tedoll78]

2. This is gonna be difficult.

I love shrimp. I love it boiled, in a po-boy, fried, in my Maw-Maw's gumbo.

If I eat any shrimp, it'll be from Korea.

[txindy]

6. And crawfish, too. Don't forget crawfish.

I don't know if I'll be able to look at another crawfish for years, now.

[tedoll78]

11. I'm an odd duck as far as crawfish go.

When the time came for family crawfish boils, I didn't get all that excited. Take 'em or leave 'em.. I'm not too ga-ga over crawfish.

[txindy]

14. I love Crawfish Etoufee. Or, rather, I did.

:cry:

[AgadorSparticus]

17. ooh, let me have your crawfish then. i LOVE crawfish boils. nt

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Cheer up..you guys have been importing crawfish from California

lately anyway :D

[txindy]

15. Well, I guess I can make my own Crawfish Etoufee then

So much for the lazy-yet-efficient, takeout method, though! Unless the restaurants post the origins of their seafood, I mean. ;)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. Stop. You're making me crave Pappadeaux's

best cheap etouffe there is

[txindy]

19. MMMmmmmmm....Pappadeaux's. MMMMmmmm...Pappasito's.

WOO-HOO!!

Okay, now I really AM hungry! **sigh**

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Hey it's way worse for me...the closest one is 7 hours away

in Phoenix

[thereismore]

3. there was a similar problem when Swissair crashed into

the Atlantic near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Lobsters were feeding on human remains, people were not buying lobsters. I don't know what it looks like up there now.

[Brother Buzz]

8. I'll take my chances with my Tabasco sauce...

I figure it's strong enough to kill most everything. Did Avery island get hit?

[markus]

13. yeah. won't be no oysters this year

[kestrel91316]

16. Yep. I would definitely stay away from the Acme Oyster House for

a while.........easy for me to say, I last was there 25 yrs ago, was SOOOOOOO yummy! I will wait a year or so before going back to NOLA I suppose, but the food beckons!

Crawfish boil, soft-shelled crab, raw oysters, jambalaya, gumbo, it's enough to make a foodie weep.

[LaPera]

21. Certainly not the crabs...Shrimp? NO! The lies are, well, complete spin...