August Air-Conditioned Walmart Walking With Alligator Nuggets

On this first day of August, the outer world at my location was 100 degrees by 11 this morning, heading towards a high today of 111.

I opted for the air-conditioned comfort of Walmart today for salubrious endorphin inducing aerobic stimulation. That, and since the walking was in Walmart, a lot of anthropological observing.

I do not think I ever go to a local Walmart without more than once thinking to myself, does that person not have a mirror? That, and why would that person get a tattoo on that location on that super plus-sized body? And expose it to the world?

Last time in Walmart I came upon a product I'd not seen before, and blogged about it in Cracker Jill Woke Up In Walmart.

Today, at Walmart, in the frozen seafood area, well, actually, the frozen seafood, frozen reptile and frozen amphibian area, next to the frozen Frog Legs I saw that which you see above.

Alligator Nuggets and Filet of Alligator.

Is this reptilian product available only in Southern Walmarts?

I would be surprised if Alligator Nuggets and Filet of Alligator is available at the Walmart in my old home zone of the Skagit Valley.

But, who knows?

Maybe there are a lot of people all over the country with a hankering for alligator...

Linda Lou's Happy Easter Giant Shrimp Without Alligator Nuggets

Above is the result of a recipe the Skagit Valley's Linda Lou directed me to last week. The completed project is in its final stage of resting for an hour, to let the various ingredients merge as one, before being consumed as this year's Texas Easter Dinner. 

The only recipe ingredient I could not find at my backwoods backwards grocery store challenged location was Italian flat parsley. The recipe also called for fresh dill which I thought I would have trouble finding, but Linda Lou gave me directions which proved fruitful, well, dillful.

The recipe called for prawns. Those also were not to be found. So I substituted extra large shrimp. When Linda Lou asked if the seafood section at my Walmart had prawns, I told her I doubted it would, but that there are frog legs available in the Walmart seafood section.

And when I found the giant shrimp, next to the frog legs, I saw something I had not seen before in the Walmart seafood section, that being what you see photo documented below.

Alligator Nuggets and Filet of Alligator.

I was experiencing a buffet in Las Vegas once, I think it was at the Rio Casino, touted as the world's biggest buffet, and frog legs were among the items being buffeted. I did not try them.

I do not think I have ever eaten anything reptilian. I saw lots of people eating deep fried rattlesnake my one and only time experiencing the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.  

Well, it is now about time for that aforementioned Happy Easter dinner. At an hour past noon...