if you're going to bread something you might as well BREAD something...

This attitude is common in the South as well, but as of my major change in diet of a year or so ago I've been avoiding fried stuff. I'd forgotten what the standard is...

The fried scallops I had atop a salad in Freeport, procured from a little place about a block from Bean's, were very lightly breaded, though--must be catering to the tourists!