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Are you heading to Maine this Summer to enjoy the coastline and the parks throughout the beautiful state of Maine? Well, you may want to know what to eat while you are there! Here we go through some of the tasty treats that Maine has to offer, from the world famous lobster to the maple syrup to much more you should have! Filmed in Maine Copyright Mark Wolters 2024 Learn how to plan your travels like we do with our Travel Planning 101 Course: https://www.brighttrip.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there, fellow hungry travelers, Mark
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And I'm Jocelyn, and this is The Eats of Maine. And when you're thinking about coming to Maine, what is the one food everyone thinks about
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Lobster. And all of its fantastic forms. So what are some of the fantastic forms of lobster they should have when they're here in Maine
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My favorite is just steamed lobster. Oh my gosh, sometimes you get like two at a time
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Holy cow. So you're going to get two whole beautiful steamed lobsters
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You're going to have to do a little work to get through them. A little side of butter on the side, sometimes coleslaw, something like that, right
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A little corn, maybe some corn on the cob. Maybe some corn. Yeah, but you're going to have that. And don't worry, if you're not sure how to get it out
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the locals will definitely help you figure out how to do it. So don't worry there
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But if you're scared of the whole lobster on your own, What else could you go for
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You can absolutely get a lobster roll. Oh, heck yeah. Don't worry. That side of butter will be there as well
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And there's different kinds of lobster rolls you can have. Yeah, sometimes they're hot, like toasted buns, and sometimes they're cold
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Yes, and you've got to have the mayonnaise with it. And, of course, still the melted butter is going to come up everywhere
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Well, the thing is you're going to get a lot of different lobster stuff. Like Liam got a lobster toasted cheese yesterday
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Just grilled cheese with lobster meat. I mean, why not elevate your grilled cheese with lobster
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Or elevate your macaroni and cheese with lobster. I mean, heck yeah, you can't go wrong
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You can put lobster in just about anything. Salads, soups. My mouth
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You know, absolutely. Or mine. Yeah, so lobster is one of those things
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And fresh main lobster, you'll see it on the side of the road, on offer. There'll be, you know, there's a lobster shack right by here, Elizabeth Point
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So there's a lot of places you can go and just eat your lobster outside and just love it
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Lobster doesn't have to be fancy, served at some, like, you know, five-star sort of restaurant
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You can just grab a lobster at this little shack on the side of the road. and I promise you it's going to be amazing
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Oh yeah. Now another seafood delicacy you're going to have when you're here are clams
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And again it comes in various forms. Various forms. So again we'll just go ahead and start with steamed clams which look a little weird
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Or steamers. Yes they're called steamers but they look a little funky
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Sometimes they're a little bit sandy so I prefer to get clams in other forms
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So you can get fried clam strips, you can get the whole belly clams fried up
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And you get those at the side of the road sometimes. But there's also one that Liam fell in love with yesterday
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And that is clam chowder, which is? It's a bisque soup. It's, you know, a creamy soup
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And it's got potatoes and maybe some onions and stuff in it. And then all those clams chopped up
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And oh, my gosh, they're just savory and delicate and also really hearty at the same time
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Yeah. So you could actually make it a meal if you have a bowl of it
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So if you're thinking about having a starter, get a cup because the bowl will really fill you up
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It will fill you up. There's so much more great food to have than just the clam chowder
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Now since we doing a theme of one food with lots of variations I think we need to talk about the blueberries here in Maine The wild blueberries And they so good when you come here And of course they come in all the forms all the forms So you can have like normal blueberries
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You can have blueberries. We had great blueberry donuts today. Oh, my God. So good
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Blueberry muffins. Blueberry ice cream. Oh, yeah. Blueberry ice cream. That was fantastic
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Blueberry cobbler, blueberry pie. I mean, he really likes blueberries. They're really good
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As do Mainers. Yes. Because the wild blueberries. They're great. Yeah, they're great
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I mean, there's a reason that you talk about, you know, live Maine lobsters and wild blueberries from Maine
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It's because they're just amazing and they're so fresh and so good when you get them here
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Now, moving back to the sea, we have... All the other seafoods
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There's scallops and there's crabs and there's oysters and there's mussels. And my family pretty much eats every single one of those the entire time we come to this beautiful state
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Because it's fresh and it's good and, oh my gosh, yeah, it's just, it's really good
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Yes, it is. And you're going to find them all over the state. So do enjoy the fish
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You can't go wrong with the seafood in your ear. Now, if we want to go to some more officially tasty main treats that they are really, it's our kind of thing
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You have whoopie pies. If you're not sure what a whoopie pie is, it's basically two pieces of chocolate cake with some cream in the middle
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And it's fantastic. You can get it at the gas station. You get it at the grocery store. It is the..
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Get it at a bakery, though. Yes, at a bakery would probably be best. Possibly I think that that's best
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But it is a whole bunch of sugar and goodness all smashed together
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It's not really smashed together. No, it's just layer. Should I please fill it with the cream in the middle
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Obviously she doesn't appreciate the wonderfulness that is a whoopie pie. I do
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But that is not as much as we do. Okay, not as much as you do. Exactly. Maybe because I don't find very many gluten-free options
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But I actually did find a couple of gluten-free options in whoopie pies. So keep your eyes out for that if you have a gluten thing
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Yes. Now, some other good things, so we'll go away from my line of stuff
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is also there's all kinds of other great fruit when you're here, right, Jocelyn
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Absolutely. So we've talked about the blueberries, right? We've also, on the way up here, we've passed like 100 strawberry farms
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So berries in general are a big thing in Maine. Yeah, so if you get that strawberry shortcake or you're going to get some raspberries and stuff
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it's going to be good. rhubarb pie, strawberry rhubarb pod. You can get that
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You had rhubarb ice cream. I had strawberry rhubarb ice cream the other day, and holy cow, it was glorious
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Yeah, and that reminds me, the ice cream here in Maine, when you go to one of the ice cream shops
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you're going to love it. The ice cream is fantastic. But when it's a small ice cream
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it's about the size of Jocelyn's head. I'm not joking. I mean, it is huge, so you might want to share
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or maybe you don't want to share, but you won't go wrong with any ice cream here in Maine. I don't know
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I really needed to share yesterday. I asked for two small scoops
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I said, make them as small as you can, because I knew that their portions were like out of control
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So the first scoop was this big, and the second scoop was this big
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It was a little bit smaller. Like by a millimeter. I mean, it was massive
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It was like more ice cream than I eat in a month. So be prepared for the portion sizes Yes So something else you find all the remain is the Italian sandwich You want to talk about it Yes which is basically a ham it sub basically ham deli ham american cheese peppers
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onions all this stuff on there and the place to get it at is a motto's and they've got a big tomato
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on their sign. Yeah so they're they're all over the state well if I shouldn't go get it there but
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that's kind of like the go-to sandwich when you are here. Now I want to go back I want to rehash
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because we talked about clam chowder, but I think in general you need to realize there's actually a
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lot of chowders you can have here in Maine that are going to be good. You can get corn chowder
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of course, like I said, the clam chowder. Fish chowder. Fish chowder, seafood chowder if you want
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the fish and everything together, but there's a lot of different chowders you can have when you're
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here. So whatever they have on the menu, if you don't see clam chowder, don't worry. If there's
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a chowder, you're going to be good. There'll be another one and it'll taste yummy too. So there's
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something called a bean supper. It's all about Maine baked beans. You want to talk about it
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Yeah, and you don't have to go to a bean supper. It's just a potluck kind of thing you'll see in
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different communities. But basically, Maine baked beans are what you want to have because it'll have
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the molasses in there, the salted pork. It's just fantastic baked beans. You can have that when
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you're here. And one thing you might have it with or you might want to also grab is a red hot dog
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And when I say a red hot dog, I mean literally the hot dog's red. It's red. Like you see it at
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a store and you're like what and it's snappy too because the casing snaps when you bite into it yeah
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so you'll see that there so don't be surprised you see when they say red hots they really mean
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a red hot dog okay it's not a red hot candy no no no it's a hot dog and if you're getting that
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probably you want to have his main soda and that's moxie and moxie i know you like it i do she does
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really like it i'm on the fence with it it's it's not super sweet it's that's why i like it yeah
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Yeah, which is why she hints why I like whoopie pies and she's all about the chug. But it is one of those things
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Have a bottle to see if you like it. Don't buy like four bottles for the four people in your family
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Not until you try one. Because I feel like it's kind of a love or hate thing
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There are very few people who are kind of in the middle. And if you're in the middle, it's not worth buying a whole bunch of them
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But buy one, try it, and then decide that you love it and buy a whole bunch more
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Yeah, when you're getting that, because you can get those gas stations at the grocery store. Another thing you grab is Humpty Dumpty Chips
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They have their own chips here in Maine. That's also in Canada, but you can get those and the various flavors
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Good for a road trip because here's one of those things you don't realize is Maine is actually a lot bigger than you expect because you see all the New England states and they're so small
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But then Maine is like bigger than the rest of the New England states combined. OK, so pretty dang massive
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Yeah, you definitely need to load up on some of those great Maine things so you can, you know, have fuel for your belly while you drive the many, many miles of Maine
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Yeah. So when you're driving around, you might see the maple syrup signs out there, too
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Really? I hadn't noticed. You might have that. So if you're driving around looking for souvenirs, you can actually pick up maple syrup here in Maine, made in Maine
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So you can have that. That's nice. And you'll see that maybe maple syrup candies. Oh, I actually got a chai tea the other day and they sweetened it with maple syrup
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And it was so good. Like honestly I love chai teas and I don love them super sweet but they put the maple syrup in and I was like holy dang that some good stuff But make sure you stir it up You got to keep stirring it up because it sink to the bottom
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It does kind of settle, and then you get a slurp of just maple syrup. Which is also good
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I mean, yeah, wrong. It's fine. I mean, maple syrup through straw. Yeah. It's fine. And I think one of those things I want to mention with the maple syrups is there's a lot of diners around you can go to
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There's a lot of local restaurants. So obviously breakfast with pancakes and maple syrup you can never go wrong with
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Another thing you might see in terms of the candy stuff, because I'll leave this for you, is the Needhams
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Now, I Needham me some Jocelyn, but I Needham. Oh, sure you do. It's actually, it's potato and coconut and some other flavorings mixed together and then covered in chocolate
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It might be in a little bar or kind of a patty kind of thing. You can get that at some of the candy shops around Maine
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And believe me, I don't know if there's more candy shops or T-shirt shops when you go around Maine to the places
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When you're on the coast. When you're on the coast, at least there is that. And then I think there's something important we need to mention are the donuts
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Holy donuts. The holy donut. My donuts are amazing because they're not like normal donuts
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They are potato donuts. So they're like kind of. They're cakey donuts
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They're moist cake donuts. And there's lots of different flavors you can get there
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We had a maple. We had the maple bacon one. We had lemon one
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But my personal favorite was the blueberry blueberry, which was a blueberry donut with blueberry clay on top
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So they're also seasonal and they change by day, but they've got all these great flavors
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So go in and get yourself a box of them and try them all for as many as you can
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Physically try. And I'll say they do fill you up because our kids, they're like, I'm good
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I'm like, wait, you had like a donut and a bit. They're like, yeah, I'm full. Like both of them
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I'm like, wait, when do kids stop eating donuts? And what I love is that they had a whole bunch
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Not just like one gluten-free option, but they have like six or seven gluten-free options
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And they were good. They were actually really good because, you know, if you're gluten-free and you try to eat those gluten-free things
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often they're just like dry and crumbly and nasty. These were actually really good
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I made everybody taste it, and it was quite excellent. I really like holy donuts, and they're fun and inventive, and that makes me excited
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Yeah, so try this. If you buy Portland, it's really worth trying
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Is it? Yes. Now, a few things about eating out in Maine. One thing I'll say is you need to have patience when you go out to eat because during the summer, there's a huge influx of tourists from the U.S., but also from Canada come down
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And that can mean a little bit longer wait times to get seated, to get your drinks, to get your menu, to get your orders and stuff
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So have patience when you're here because the people are friendly and they'll give you the advice and stuff like that
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But don't expect them to be coming to your table all the time just because it's just there's so many tourists that are coming through here
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So I just want to give you the heads up for that. Also, local yokel places
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Those mom and pop places, those shacks on the side of the road, those are my favorite places to eat in Maine
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I'm telling you, it doesn't have to be fancy to be really, really good. Yeah, so we hope this helps you know what to eat when you come here to Maine
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If you want to learn more, check us out on our website at waltusworld.com. And if you have some more Maine eats, put them in the comment section below, please
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Bye. See y'all
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