Fishy Friday – The Super 7 Plate Lunches Served in Acadiana on Friday

(KMDL-FM) If you have been following our series all week, we have attempted to offer you suggestions on plate lunch offerings for each day of the week.

People eating burgers, fries, and roasted vegetables at a round table

Many plate lunch place simply rotate their menu, but there are still plenty that have a certain special on a certain day, and that's what we wanted to make you aware of with our series.

Fridays are Fishy When It Comes to Plate Lunches in Acadiana

We have arrived at Friday's offerings, and there should be no surprise to anyone that we suddenly find ourselves inundated with a great selection of seafood and fish dishes. We'd expect that during Lent, but the truth of retail marketing demands that seafood be an option on Fridays in Louisiana all year round.

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We do see a lot of shrimp dishes showing up on the Friday menus, but are catfish and crawfish technically "sea" food? That was not an ocean where I got my crawfish, and there was no blue water where my catfish was swimming. Who am I kidding? I get my stuff at Rouse's or Nunu's or some other Louisiana-based grocery.

A woman carrying a grocery basket of vegetables picks up a Boxed Water box

But no matter what ingredients I buy, I cannot put them together the way the artists on our list do. As we mentioned, there are a lot of catfish, shrimp, and crawfish opportunities on the menu for today. They are priced accordingly.

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That's my quaint way of saying that for some of these meals, you will get a huge portion, but you are going to use up almost every inch of a $20 bill. So, it does pay to plan. If you'd like to do some at your desk or in your truck. Here is the list you've been waiting for. Let's go get lunch.