Lobster!

[Floogeldy]

C'mon, peeps. It's a great big fucking bug. Eat the cockroaches instead!

;)

[Ravenseye]

1. Lobster used to be for the poor people or fertilizer

In North America, prior to the 20th century, lobster was not popular as food. In the Maritimes, eating lobster was considered a mark of poverty. In some parts of the Maritime provinces of Canada, lobster was used as a fertilizer for farmers' fields.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster

Blech. You might as well pay 40 bucks to eat a spider...Plus they're bottom feeders so you're getting all the nice settled garbage and toxins back into your system. Blech.

[Floogeldy]

3. Good stuff.

Thanks! :)

[Midlodemocrat]

4. And, interestingly, when ships were being used to

transport goods to the Americas as they were being settled, many sailors had it written into their contracts that they would only eat lobster 2 times a day. I always found that fact to be so interesting, because I LOVE lobster, but when we go to Maine and I eat a lot of it, I break out in hives.

[Ravenseye]

6. Yup

Of course back then they canned it and it was apparently pretty bad and spoiled easily. It wasn't until they figured out to keep them alive and cook them right before eating that people caught on to it, then it became a craze and sort of settled into being a normal thing.

Are you allergic to Lobster that badly that you break out in hives?

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Apparently. Which sucks. I love lobster.

[auntAgonist]

2. I love Lobster!

I love seafood!

[Benfea]

5. Actually, cockroach exoskeletons contain glucose or sucrose or something.

At least, that's what I've been told. You can probably dig out the guts and grind up the exoskeleton to make a sweet paste.

PS—I agree that crustaceans are bugs. Heck, they're arthropods, aren't they?

[Ravenseye]

7. Well bugs are actually just a variety of insect

But people also use Bug for every type of Arthropod.

Insects, Spiders, Centipedes and Milipedes. Those plus Crustateons are the Arthropods. The rest are gross to us, why not Lobsters? Just weird.

[Benfea]

10. Speak for yourself.

I happen to think crustaceans are plenty gross. :)

[Ravenseye]

11. Oh no i'm totally with you on that one

Definately gross. Swimming bugs. I just think it's interesting that people who wouldn't each General Tso's Chicken because it's too 'weird' (ie foreign food is icky people) would probably happily eat a lobster (which is just a big swimming bug).

Weird. Weird how people don't associate crustaceans with insects, spiders, centipedes, and milipedes.

[Benfea]

15. Well, people used to be more sensible about lobster.

It used to be nobody liked the stuff, so it was insanely cheap. People used to feed it to laborers until the laborers started demanding contracts that placed limits on how much lobster could be foisted on them.

Now it's considered a delicacy and is insanely expensive.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. Lobster is horrid.

It really is a giant sea bug! :puke:

And this from the girl from the land of lobstah...

:D

[Akoto]

12. Crabs/Lobsters = Armored Spiders

Yucky. :D

[SofaKingLiberal]

13. If roaches tasted like lobster, I probably would.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. This thread is seriously lacking in the rock department.