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Wed 15 Nov, 2006 12:11 pm
A restaurant bought a huge the 15-pound lobster and named him Monstro (who in their right mind names a lobster).
Half the customers who weighed in on the subject wanted to eat Monstro; the other half felt sorry for him. After persistent lobbying from diners and his 7-year-old daughter, the owner decided to raffle off Monstro, with the winner deciding whether to send him to the ocean or the cooking pot.
The winner doesn't like lobster. She said a lobster that big and that old shouldn't end up on a dinner plate. The Monstro raffle was so successful that the owner extended it to another lobster, a 9-pounder who'd joined Monstro in the tank a couple of weeks ago. That lobster was set free, too.
I'd eat him up right in front of that kid! And you know what? My own children would eat it up no problem either.
Aren't huge lobsters not-so-tasty?
You need that monster in the ocean, reproducing.
I remember we had a lobster thread before.
you really like lobster, don't you linkat?
I just wouldn't eat it because I hate lobster. bleech.....
I'd probably make you watch while I set it free.
Chai Tea wrote:I remember we had a lobster thread before.
you really like lobster, don't you linkat?
I just wouldn't eat it because I hate lobster. bleech.....
I'd probably make you watch while I set it free.
Yeah - well I'd run up and grab it as it was trying to get away! It is a fallacy that the larger they are the worse the taste. I ate a lobster 3.5 pounds - yummy sucker it was.
Did have a lobster thread before, but can you believe that some one bought a raffle ticket to win a lobster and they choose to set it free? If you don't like lobster then why the heck would you buy a ticket to try to win one? Confuses the heck out of me.
That lobster lived a long and full life. Perhaps we should be more concerned about the little tiny lobsters we get at restaurants that never had a chance to fulfill their dreams and laugh and play with the other lobsters!
There was a show on lobsters in the Maine area the other night.
Did you know they can live to 70?
Did you know they shed their shell? Starts out at once a year then slows down as they age. They can suffocate while doing it if they take too long because their gills stop when they're shedding it.
They can also reproduce any part of their body that they lose.
They love sea urchins but will eat anything, including dead things.
They can swim 10 ft. a second. Whoa, Lucy.
There ya go -- a little lobster info for Linkat.
And they taste really, really good too.
I like a 1.75-2 pounder myself. We used to buy big culls when I was in college for cheap lobster boils. Tasted fine to me.
I think a lobster killed Linkat's Pa...
". . . from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."
Linkat's curse upon Monstro. She's setting out next week in the lobster boat Pequod and is looking for a crew.
Arrgghhh, matey!
Ooh, you're right, that's even better-- Monstro pinched her leg off!
All night she walks the deck, a lobster claw pegleg clump, clump, clumping. Cursing the Great Red Lobster, Monstro--
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering lobster; to the last I grapple with thee;"
"I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition's flames before I give him up."
Mame wrote:
They love sea urchins but will eat anything, including dead things.
Say, I think I heard somewhere that sea urchins destroy coral reefs, or something like that. Let my lobsters go.
"lobster claw pegleg"
ow, my side hurts now...I think I just fell for you all over again, you old blacksmith you!
Also, I think substituting "lobster" in passges of great books might be a fun new game.
Quote: I think I heard somewhere that sea urchins destroy coral reefs, or something like that. Let my lobsters go.
crown of thorns starfish do. Not so sure about sea urchins.
Fatal mistake to give an edible animal a name.
Sensing her malevolent intent, Monstro takes his revenge by mating with Linkat's car:
I saw an enourmous lobster in a Chinatown restaurant. The guy said it was there for show...I thought he said it was somewhere between 15-20lbs. I remember at first seeing the claw and thinking that alone was a king crab or something.
Mame's facts prove that lobsters are equal to or better than humans:
Mame wrote:
Did you know they can live to 70?
Same as humans!
Did you know they shed their shell? Starts out at once a year then slows down as they age. They can suffocate while doing it if they take too long because their gills stop when they're shedding it.
Kinda like humans taking their clothes off!
They can also reproduce any part of their body that they lose.
That makes them superior to humans!
They love sea urchins but will eat anything, including dead things.
So do we!
They can swim 10 ft. a second. Whoa, Lucy.
Better than humans!
It seems the only advantage we have is our larger brains.
and lobsters dont know any recipes for us
WARNING - Never try to cook a Mexican lobster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEMs4S9PgW0
Yeh, I'm not for over fishing anything...
have no clue how that can be orchestrated - I tend to hate the details, but am for the natural balance..
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