Sailor's choice

(Zool.)	An excellent marine food fish (Diplodus rhomboides, syn. Lagodon rhomboides) of the Southern United States; - called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream.
	A species of grunt (Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; - called also hogfish, and pigfish.

See also: Sailor, Sailor

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Catches usually vary from sailor's choice, lookdowns, sea robins, and margates to sheepshead, small drum and flounder.

Gather'Round

The next time I encounter "Sailor's Choice" wine from Lonz's, (an exclusive Ohio boutique vineyard) or see a battlefield or any one of a thousand other reminders, I will think of John and the difference he has made in my life.

In celebration of John Randt

Some of them survived and evolved into sailor's choice (pinfish--panfish with an i).