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JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
10/27/12 4:31 p.m.

So, I just checked into my hotel in (actually near) Lake Wales, FL. For those of you unfamiliar with Lake Wales, the largest nearby town is Sebring, which is about 40 miles south. Sebring just got a Chili's about 10 years ago. Lake Wales' only claim to fame is Chalet Suzanne, where they have soup. Okay, so you get it, it's not exactly a metropolis.

Anyhoo, I check into the hotel, get in the elevator, and this really dirty guy gets in with me. Not unclean dirty, just that blue collar, end of the day, hard working dirty. So the door closes, and the dude looks over and says "Hey man, you from around here? You know where I can get some gator meat?"

So, I'm wondering the following things:

Is this how people not from Florida think we make small talk here?
Is "gator meat" some sort of street slang for a substance or act that he thinks I can provide/submit to?
DO I REALLY LOOK LIKE SOMEONE THAT KNOWS WHERE YOU CAN GET GATOR MEAT?

Anyway, I told him his best shot was Avon Park or Sebring, which are the only real towns that are more toward the swamp than the mouse.

Anyone know where he can get some "gator meat"?

jg

Marjorie Suddard General Manager
10/27/12 4:43 p.m.

I have nothing to add, except that is awesome. And gator is not cheap.

Margie

JoeyM GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
10/27/12 4:51 p.m.

JG Pasterjak wrote: So, I just checked into my hotel in (actually near) Lake Wales, FL. [......] Anyone know where he can get some "gator meat"? jg

Hey, you're just down the road a couple minutes from me.

If he just wants to get an appetizer of breaded gator bites, Harry's in Winter Haven
http://www.harrysoldplace.com/menu.html

Finding a slab of uncooked tail meat for sale might be more difficult. He could call Mac's Meats (863) 299-1444

Will Dork
10/27/12 5:02 p.m.

I live in TN, and I've seen guys in a pickup go door to door selling meat from an A/C inverter-powered fridge in the bed.

donalson PowerDork
10/27/12 5:17 p.m.

Will wrote: I live in TN, and I've seen guys in a pickup go door to door selling meat from an A/C inverter-powered fridge in the bed.

seen that all over... still creeps me out a bit

Ranger50 UltraDork
10/27/12 5:22 p.m.

donalson wrote:
Will wrote: I live in TN, and I've seen guys in a pickup go door to door selling meat from an A/C inverter-powered fridge in the bed.
seen that all over... still creeps me out a bit

You aren't the only one...

stuart in mn PowerDork
10/27/12 5:52 p.m.

Will wrote: I live in TN, and I've seen guys in a pickup go door to door selling meat from an A/C inverter-powered fridge in the bed.

Right up there with the guys selling stereo speakers out of a van.

JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
10/27/12 5:57 p.m.

Oh, and I'm not just staying here for the scintillating, gator meat based conversations. I'm down here for The Monster Match which is a really cool, end-of-the-season match that USA Shooting academy puts on every year around halloween. It's a bit of an outlaw match, with super high round counts, and monster themed stages, and a lot of folks shoot in their halloween best. Good times.

jg

ultraclyde Dork
10/27/12 7:01 p.m.

And lots of Hornady Zombie ammo?

Maybe he was a UGA football fan.

JoeyM GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
10/27/12 7:28 p.m.

ultraclyde wrote: And lots of Hornady Zombie ammo?

Buy that stuff AFTER halloween when it is marked down

Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
10/27/12 7:36 p.m.

You were expected to wink and hand him your room key.

Datsun310Guy UltraDork
10/27/12 8:01 p.m.

Ranger50 wrote:
donalson wrote:
Will wrote: I live in TN, and I've seen guys in a pickup go door to door selling meat from an A/C inverter-powered fridge in the bed.
seen that all over... still creeps me out a bit
You aren't the only one...

We get these guys in my 'hood in the Chicago SW 'burbs. Usually the pickups have Florida plates.

JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
10/27/12 8:16 p.m.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: You were expected to wink and hand him your room key.

I think if I had just hit the emergency stop on the elevator he'd have been good to go.

jg

SVreX MegaDork
10/27/12 9:06 p.m.

donalson wrote:
Will wrote: I live in TN, and I've seen guys in a pickup go door to door selling meat from an A/C inverter-powered fridge in the bed.
seen that all over... still creeps me out a bit

Wait... Is that weird? I thought it was pretty normal. Happens every day around here.

David S. Wallens Editorial Director
10/27/12 10:00 p.m.

All you had to say was, "Sorry, no." He would have totally understood.

Jay UltraDork
10/27/12 11:18 p.m.

JG Pasterjak wrote: Oh, and I'm not just staying here for the scintillating, gator meat based conversations. I'm down here for The Monster Match which is a really cool, end-of-the-season match that USA Shooting academy puts on every year around halloween. It's a bit of an outlaw match, with super high round counts, and monster themed stages, and a lot of folks shoot in their halloween best. Good times. jg

You're there for that and yet you get offended when somebody thinks you're the kind of guy who can get gator meat? I'll bet everyone else at that event knows where to get gator meat!

thatsnowinnebago GRM+ Memberand Dork
10/27/12 11:28 p.m.

I don't think gator meat exists out here in California but I saw in a grocery store in Houma, LA when I was working out there. Its tasty stuff.

aeronca65t Dork
10/28/12 5:04 a.m.

JG Pasterjak wrote: So, I'm wondering the following things: 1. Is this how people not from Florida think we make small talk here? 2. Is "gator meat" some sort of street slang for a substance or act that he thinks I can provide/submit to?

Did you notice if the elevator music was Dueling Banjos?