i have ALWAYS maintained lobster is SHITE. but dont take my word for it...

[danny_galaga]

last article on this page:

http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,17222897,00.html

"They used to be super-abundant, dirt cheap, dished up to prisoners and orphans

[TOK]

Right on. If something has more than 4 legs, don't eat it.

[Ed_McCarron]

I'm just not crazy about the rubbery texture or taste.  I have to dip it in enough butter I might just as well munch on a stick of margarine.

[dmsuchy]

I like lobster if cooked right, even though it is the grasshopper of the sea. I do agree that a lobster is the same as an insect, exo skeleton ect.., but if a bug was prepared right I would eat that also.

[Quarters]

I like lobster if cooked right, even though it is the grasshopper of the sea. I do agree that a lobster is the same as an insect, exo skeleton ect.., but if a bug was prepared right I would eat that also.

Lobster is good eating. Crickets can be good too, much like lobster with a kind of nutty flavour.

[Zakk]

Yet everyone seems to love a big, nasty hairy animal that rolls around in its own filth!


I would say that anyone who doesn't like loberster either doesn't like seafood to begin with (fairly common), or has never had a big juicy Halifax lobster!

I will counter that though with the fact that they get big and juicy on the excessive amount of filth Halifax pumps into the ocean.  I do believe that Halifax harbour is noted as the most polluted in the world (or certainly in the top 5).  Too stupid to stop pumping raw sewage into the ocean, but spectacular lobster! 

[2600]

I would say that anyone who doesn't like loberster either doesn't like seafood to begin with (fairly common)

I think that's at least 75% of it.  I prefer Bay Crabs if given the choice, but lobster is tasty.

[Jabba]

I was working for a client out in White Plains NY, and one night we went down to Manhattan for dinner. One of the guys ordered this big ass lobster that must have weighed 20 lbs  Cost muchos $$$ too.

Me, I can take it or leave it.  Not bad as surf and turf...

[RayB]

Isn't part of the cost due to the fact that you have to keep these things alive and fresh? In theory, the farther you are from the ocean, the more it should cost.

[brophog]

Isn't part of the cost due to the fact that you have to keep these things alive and fresh? In theory, the farther you are from the ocean, the more it should cost.

That is the theory. And, it's correct at a restaurant that cares to do seafood right, which means to have it as fresh as possible.

But most don't do it right, they just expect you to pay the cost because "it's seafood, it must be expensive".

[kaz1961]

If its expensive it must be good!

[Bones]

I dig rock lobster.

[MaximRecoil]

IN the early 1980s, while I was living in the US, I did a summer school in Maine. In those days, many of the pubs had great big vats full of boiled lobsters at $3 or $4 each.

I've never heard of such a thing. Granted, I wasn't going to "pubs" in the early 80's (I was born in '75) but whoever heard of lobster in a bar? And does he really mean "boiled lobsters"? Here in Maine, many places have lobster tanks with live lobsters, from small Mom and Pop's type general stores to large grocery stores (and they aren't particularly expensive here), but I have never seen or heard of places having a big vat of them already cooked and on demand. That doesn't even make sense; whatever doesn't sell at the end of the day wouldn't be good for much, or, who would want to eat a lobster that was cooked in the morning if they arrive at night? Even restaurants that serve lobsters don't cook them until someone orders one.

I've only had lobster once in my life and it was pretty good, but too much of a hassle to eat. I've never been tempted to buy a live one even though you see them everywhere around here.

[missioncontrol]

lobster is good wrapped with BACON

[Bones]

I had lobster today. It was average. I like lobster, but todays was a let down.

[danny_galaga]

IN the early 1980s, while I was living in the US, I did a summer school in Maine. In those days, many of the pubs had great big vats full of boiled lobsters at $3 or $4 each.

I've never heard of such a thing. Granted, I wasn't going to "pubs" in the early 80's (I was born in '75) but whoever heard of lobster in a bar? And does he really mean "boiled lobsters"? Here in Maine, many places have lobster tanks with live lobsters, from small Mom and Pop's type general stores to large grocery stores (and they aren't particularly expensive here), but I have never seen or heard of places having a big vat of them already cooked and on demand. That doesn't even make sense...

true. the guy writing that article is a journalist. so who knows what he'll make up to introduce the bits he had no involvement with (in this case the work of an oceanographer). after all, in one of the articles above he claims that there are mosquitos as big as planes    but that doesn't change the fact that lobster was oncce looked upon as the food you ate if you were really desperate 

[danny_galaga]

I had lobster today. It was average. I like lobster, but todays was a let down.

ha! i've sown the seeds of doubt! my work here is done. muahahahaha...

[xar256]

Meh...Tastes like chicken.   

Xar256