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for the curious. The next time you head down route 17 to the coastal

Carolinas look for North Carolina Highway route 179 to intersect just above the South Carolina border.

And then take the 15 miles eastward to Calabash to some really good seafood and some American memories.

Calabash is a small fishing town in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

Population at last check, around 2000.

You can watch the shrimp boats unloading at the docks if you hit it just right,

usually around 4 p.m. in the afternoon.

It prides itself as the seafood capital of the world because of the town's Kalabash style seafood restaurants. Kalabash style seafood restaurants.

Kalabash style seafood is coated in a light batter with a finely ground corn and then fried.

When prepared correctly, it is wonderful, tasty and light, not heavy with breading and grease.

The smaller Creek Shrimp-prepared Kalabash style are the most popular.

Apparently a lot of restaurants in nearby Myrtle Beach and in Little Kalabash, claimed to have Kalabash style seafood.

But you need to ask around a little and to find out who really has it.

Otherwise, you just blew the whole reason for stopping.

Kalabash, which is probably an Indian name for gourds, was

named after the gorge that grew in that region, which were used for drinking well water

since the 30s. But there's another story to Kalabash,

when one that many people never heard.

Actually, the following tidbit took some searching,

but this blog post from Ted Tyson in Scarborough, Ontario

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