Why Chinatown Rocks

I'm shopping in Chinatown trying to pick up pork chops and short ribs, when the following sight makes me backtrack a few steps:


I know, it's a whole new level of crazy. There hanging out underneath the pork sausages is some random leg of something with a black paw.

Clearly it's something belonging to the lizard family.

One of the meat counter guys sees me ogling this meat and snapping pictures of it, and playfully lifts it up so I can take a better gander at the sucker.

By the way, I really don't understand why some of these pictures are pink and some are blue. This camera stuff is hard.

He gleefully informs me it's alligator meat.

Now, I have no idea what it means from a sustainability or environmental point of view that there are random alligator legs in my local Chinatown store, but barring further information I find it awesome that this sight can great any old person who strolls in on a Sunday.