Lobster - overrated?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Poll question: Lobster - overrated?

Granted - I'm a New Englander where lobster pots are a regular thing - cut me some slack!

[RPM]

1. just overpriced... n/t

[JVS]

41. Yup

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. it's like eating a giant cockroach

[sniffa]

5. kinda Like shrimp then

the baby cockroaches of the sea. :puke:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

6. If you had said "like eating a giant krill" I'd maybe agree with you

Cockroach? I'm not feelin' ya!

[rockymountaindem]

18. They're related to roaches.

I don't eat them.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

42. I'm related to a fish - I eat them

:D

[Parche]

3. LOBSTER

My best meal was a 2live Lobsters brought to us by
a client in Boston, we cooked them, and they were the best
I have ever had,


STEAK AND LOBSTER ROCKS!!!

[xultar]

4. Lobster = ROACH

:puke

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Um- does a roach have a delicios tail? Or any tail at all? Doesn't a roach

live in the cracks in your wall and not in the ocean?

[xultar]

21. I did hear they are from the same species family.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

25. I believe a lobster is an arachnid - thus more closely related to spiders

and lice!

[Kraklen]

30. Oh for crying out loud.

Lobsters, roaches, and spiders are all a part of the phylum arthropoda.

Roaches, and other insects, belong to the subphylum uniramia. While lobsters and spiders are part of the subphylum crustacea. Lobsters and spiders are of two different classes: malacostra and arachnida, respectively.

Lobsters and spiders are about as closely related, taxonomically, as humans and geckos.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. They still are wonderfull in a Fra Diavlo sauce!

[4_Legs_Good]

7. They ARE freaking bugs

All the same, I love some of them!!!



david

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Piss off, Zoidberg!

[DS1]

10. I don't know, but what's the green shit people dig out from the front?

:puke:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Delicious!

[Misunderestimator]

15. I know!

:puke:

[Amaya]

20. it's a delicacy

:D

[NawlinsNed]

23. mostly fat

The fat inside the shells of most crustaceans is sweet and delicious. When I make shrimp stock, I always include the heads. Friends that have gone to eat mongolian hot pot with me are always amazed at how much more flavor you can get out of a head's on shrimp than a headless one. When I make a gumbo, I sautee the vegetables in a bit of crab fat before adding the roux.

[hyphenate]

32. It's called the tomalley

And those who love lobster will be happy to take it off your hands. My mom, raised by a fisherman in Cape Breton, loves the stuff. I'm happy to give it to her. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. One can never over-rate lobster. Yum!

Except, maybe, non-Maine lobster.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

14. (((( (((( (((( !!!!YES!!!! )))) )))) ))))

[Amaya]

13. delicious!

lobster rolls are the best :9

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. ***grrrggrrrlllll****

[Demeter]

16. The Only Reason To Move To New England

Cheap lobster and steamers fresh from the Atlantic. With butter. And lemon.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

27. Cheap? If you have a lobster pot, maybe!

[Gormy Cuss]

29. it's really cheap if you just poach from someone else's pots

Of course, you must be aware of the risk of bodily harm, and the likelihood that your boat will be swimming with the fishes.

A public service message from the sibling of a great Maine lobsterman.

Lobster is cheapest outside of tourist season, and during shedding.
A fine treat.

[Demeter]

43. It's $13.00/ lb in Michigan

so anything less is CHEAP!

[hobbit709]

19. I speak fluent Crustacean

[randr]

22. UUUUUMMMMMMM------Lobster

[Maddy McCall]

24. I'd rather have shrimp fresh out of the Gulf any day.

Much tastier, in my opinion.

[mcscajun]

26. But I have to admit...I prefer Dungeness Crab

or even Maryland Blue Crab.

[Kraklen]

28. There are records from early New England colonists...

while they're enduring smallpox and blizzards and puritanism, they're busy complaining about how all they have to eat is lobster AGAIN!

[JimmyJazz]

31. my favorite!

[arwalden]

33. Ever Heard One Scream When You Put It In Boiling Water?

It makes my mouth start to water... like Pavlov's dog. Shreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Ssssssssssssss!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. Shreeaaaak SHREAAAAK!!!!! BUTTERR!!!!! MMMMMMMM!!!!

[greatauntoftriplets]

36. It's the food of the gods...manna from heaven.

In other words, I like it.

:)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

37. Lobstah and steamahs with lots of buttah

:9

Lobster is the nectar of the gods!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

38. You know they used to use it as fertilizer?

And sevants would work into their contracts that they were to be fed lobster no more than a few days a week. Then again - there were BILLIONS of them then. Ah how scarcity will make something all the more tasty! Truffles, anyone?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

39. Lobster bisque, lobster rolls, lobster chowder, lobster pie, lobster

fritters.

I wish someone would feed me lobster everyday.

Did you hear that the Eastern oyster may be on the endangered species list? Not only would that screw the shellfisherman, think of how the price of oysters will go up.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

40. I know thatyou're allowed to eat some Long Island Sound oyetsers now. At

leat that is what I was told. New Haven used to be the oyster capital of the Country :cry: