Whether you want to buy abalone for your gramma’s recipe for Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Soup, an afternoon barbecue, or to impress your in-laws at your daughter’s wedding reception, you have hundreds of choices available to you as to where you can go to buy abalone for your next soirée or hootenanny. You don’t even really have to buy abalone if you don’t want to, just don a snorkeling mask and a very warm wetsuit and take a dive into the icy waters off the coast of northern California. Be sure and bring a crowbar to help get them off the rocks, and don’t take more than the legal limit or you may be facing fines of thousands of dollars.
Back in the old days, no on e had to buy abalone. One could pretty much just wade into the tide pools at your local beach and come out with more than a few after a meager two to three minute search. People who could once do this are now forced to buy abalone because of massive and irresponsible over harvesting, but of course they can’t afford to buy abalone because the world economy is dismal at best and especially cruel to the vast majority of earth’s inhabitants, even as many continue to buy abalone at hundreds of dollars per meal, most people who’s ancestors once survived by eating the flesh of these ancient creatures just wish they could go and pull a couple off a rock.