ISLAMORADA, Fla. The postcard Florida experience: sun, fun and plenty of local seafood. It was the latter that brought Gary and Vicki Haller from Kansas to Wahoos here last week, with its waterfront views, toucan colors and promise of fresh food from our docks.
We live in cow country, Mr. Haller said. Here we eat fish.
But the fish in his belly buster sandwich actually traveled farther than he did. It was Pangasius, a freshwater catfish from Vietnam. The grouper and tuna were also imports, according to Wahoos managers. And the local label on the menu? It still applied, they insisted, because their distributor was down the road.
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Caption: Managers at Wahoo’s in Islamorada, FL, said imported seafood was appropriately labeled “local” on the menu because it was supplied by a nearby distributor.
Credit: Jessica A. Woolf for The New York Times