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Hey the fellow travelers! Mark here with Walter's World helping out Simply Jocelyn and today we're on Key West in Florida
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A famous really popular tourist destination. People love coming to visit and they love coming to eat here
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And today what I have for you are the things you should eat when you come here to Key West
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And the most famous thing from Key West is key lime pie
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Look there's lots of different like variations of key lime pie and people will discuss it
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I mean, it's key lime pie, but some people have a graham cracker crust
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Sometimes we'll have a pie crust. Sometimes meringue or whipped cream. Or you can go topless
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I actually like the topless kind at Moe's. It was phenomenal. But honestly, key lime pie is from here, and you have to have one when you're here
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And if you want to try all the different versions of it, try all the different versions of it
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And no matter what you do, just remember, key lime pie is not green
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If you go someplace here in Key West that has green key lime pie, I think you should call the authorities because that's against the law
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I mean, it's not really, but honestly, it's not green. You'll be like, oh, that looks like a weird pumpkin or lemon pie
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No, no, it's key lime and you will love it. So that's the first thing you have to eat when you're here
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Second thing to eat when you're here is rock lobster or spiny lobster. It's not always available
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It's only during season, but oh my God, it is so delicious to have
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And actually there a time of the year you can actually come and fish or lobster for your own as well but oh my god if you here when it available get it get it and get it again All year round you can get like a Maine lobster roll You can do that but let be honest You want to have the rock lobster the spiny lobster because it is just I mean I drooling
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thinking about it because how good it is. Have it grilled up. Oh, so good
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So good when you're here. Another thing you need to eat, and you obviously, we're on an island
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It's a key, right? And it's a lot of seafood when we're here. And the next thing you should have is conch, okay
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conch fritters crack conch conch in your ceviche i mean it's just conch if you're not sure what
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conch is you know the conch show there's a little like thing living inside of it they get out and
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they cook it up in many many different ways and it is really really good i mean you can get conch
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chowder if you want but honestly have some conch when you're there usually the easiest way to get
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it is to have the conch fritters as an appetizer you'll see that on a lot of menus here so you can
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get that and try it it's definitely a really nice one they usually have like a fruity dipping sauce
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to go with it. You can't go wrong with that. Now, another thing that you might have actually had at
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your home right now to have it Key West and have it fresh is shrimp. Whether it's pink shrimp or
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red shrimp, you've got lots of shrimp. And a lot of shrimp that is sold in the U.S. actually comes
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from around here, you know, Gulf shrimp stuff. And you get it fresh and you'll have it in different
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dishes. You'll have it just like grilled or wrapped in bacon or whatever. The shrimp here
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phenomenal. So you want to have some of that. Now, I know after talking about rock lobster
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cock and shrimp you thinking okay you got the seafood Mark You should talk about something else So so I will and just know that some of that seafood would come into some of these dishes in my next thing i need to eat here and that is cuban food or or just caribbean food in general
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if you can get that when you're here there's some really good caribbean restaurants really good cuban restaurants here and you can eat such good stuff i know we went to mo's and most it was
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more we had i had the caribbean chicken that was there i know i eat non-seafood when i'm here sorry
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but it was amazing like we've traveled throughout the caribbean and it was up there with some
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I just like fall off the bones, still hot every bite, so good. My buddy Jeff, he got the, they had a shrimp with noodle, like a shrimp fettuccine they
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made with a Creole sauce. It was so good, but there's lots of Caribbean restaurants and Cuban restaurants here that
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you can go to. You know, the rice and beans will be influenced, but then there'll be the fish with it
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And it's just, it's so good if you can get there, okay, and get some of those food
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And some of the Cuban and Caribbean restaurants aren't on Duval, like the main drag, sometimes
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you got to go a little off. It's worth it. Get an Uber, get a Lyft. yeah just just go because the cuban food is amazing you get some tribune stuff too it's amazing
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so you have that and i think going along with that i got to go back just to the seafood in general
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just any fresh fish of the day is going to be good snapper is really big here grouper mahi mahi
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all of them just have them grilled up blackened fish for you boom it's good whatever the fish of
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the day is i take it boom you good to go all right so fresh seafood of any fresh fish of any kind is a definite go to when you here And also I think a different it fish but it a different kind of thing it actually just a fish sandwich i mean literally if it
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fried or blackened fish just eat it like that you're to go going around and doing stuff things
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they're really really good fish sandwiches here too so so so try that out and the thing is is i
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mean key west as expensive as it is to get to key west and to stay on key west in terms of
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accommodation. Going out to eat is actually not that bad. And if you're on Duval, I mean, even
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the places there aren't too bad and you're getting off the main tourist areas, you can eat really
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super amazing seafood for super affordable prices. I won't say cheap, but like really fair prices
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And I'm like, oh my God, this is so good. And then my wallet isn't dying for having such amazing food
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And then the last little, you know, I guess seafood thing I need to talk to you about is the stone crab
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You know, you have your little crab. I mean, come on, how can you go wrong with crab claws and crab? It's just awesome when it is here
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It's caught right by here, so that's another thing you really should have. And I really appreciated that, that I got to have such good meals at really fair prices when I was here
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compared to how scared I was at how expensive it could be compared to accommodation pricing and flight prices
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So have a great time. If you want to learn the don'ts of visiting Key West, you can actually go on my channel
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hit that subscribe button. Charleston's got videos and I help her out from all over the world to help you know what to eat in different places
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Bye from here on Key West
