Lobster

[Anonymous No.14810869]

I wish we were back in the days where lobster was for poor people because it’s so good but so expensive at the same time. It’s definitely my go to dinner food when I’m out to eat at a fancier restaurant. Either lobster or New York strip steak.

Do y’all like lobster?

[Anonymous No.14810880]

>>14810869
Yea but it’s honestly not worth the price.

[Anonymous No.14810968]

I went to a place called Mount Vernon in the greater Boston area. The decor was straight out of the 80s, every single wait staff had looked like they'd been there since the tea party. But Holy shit, they knew lobster, and you could get three lobsters for $33. Their wait staff was incredibly friendly and fun and did a great job showing our newbies how to properly tear one apart.

10/10, fuck Legal Seafood, go to Mount Vernon.

[Anonymous No.14810991]

>>14810869
I don't like to eat lobster because I'm worried that it might be alive and try to pinch me

[Anonymous No.14811003]

i don't get the lobster hype, it tastes fairly bland to me. i'd rather have practically any other seafood.

[Anonymous No.14811066]

was in portland ME recently and was absolutely astounded at the lobster portions they were trying to get away with
it was like 20$ for like a few ounces of lobster on a buttered hotdog bun

[Anonymous No.14811080]

>>14811066
You've got to get out of Portland if you don't want to pay out the ass

[Anonymous No.14811097]

>>14811080
yeah i'm sure, was visiting a friend tho and wanted to try it out

[Anonymous No.14811174]

>>14810991
If it's red, it's dead.
Cooked and safe.

[Anonymous No.14811195]

Lobster is lovely. Generally pick up some a few times a year. Wife's birthday, anniversary, etc.

About the same price as shrimp, but a lot of shell weight, so the yield per dollar isn't as favorable... but wifey and the kids love it, so it's worthwhile.
I'm fine with the U6 shrimp. Little guys are the size of hotdogs.

[Anonymous No.14811197]

>>14811066
Three words: Pool Street Market

[Anonymous No.14811355]

>>14811197
Or if you dont mind a slight risk of food poisoning susans fish and chips.

[Anonymous No.14811362]

>>14810869
>I wish we were back in the days where lobster was for poor people
when was this, the 1700s?

[Anonymous No.14812686]

less than a hundred years ago bud. they used to feed it to prisoners. it caused a riot once because they were getting sick of eating it.

[Anonymous No.14812729]

>>14810869
yeah and I wish the japs stopped overfishing tuna

[Anonymous No.14813427]

>>14810869
6 bucks a lb but I live in the northeast on the water

[Anonymous No.14815485]

why would you wanna be poor back in the day?

[Anonymous No.14815632]

>>14811174
So why isn't it called Dead Lobster?

[Anonymous No.14816088]

>>14815632
I have acquaintances who refer to the establishment thusly.
The company probably feels that using the word "dead" on their signage and advertising would offer negative enterprise value, and conflict with their already dubious claims about freshness.

Probably safe to open a place called Dead Meat. Gotta focus on quality and have good humor in the advertising.

[Anonymous No.14816097]

>>14813427
Depends on season and where you shop, but we can get live lobsters here in flyover for $7 or $8/lb for chicken lobsters.

[Anonymous No.14816155]

>>14810869
I dislike the way wh*teoids cook it, but canto lobster is pretty good

I feel bad for wh*tes but it's mostly a cultural issue, as China dominates the world in the Chinese Century they'll finally have civilization brought to their shores

[Anonymous No.14816159]

>>14816155

[Anonymous No.14816169]

I like lobster cakes. I have a bf who takes me out to lobster dinner every week. We’ve had so much of the stuff that it’s lost its luster. Oh well. Now I’m a ribeye man, mostly.

[Anonymous No.14816187]

>>14816159
seethe, cope, and dilate

[Anonymous No.14816424]

>>14810869
I've been working on my waterfront and am having a boat built for next spring. I plan to get my recreational license, fuck around with five lobster traps. Free lobster! (After a modest $10,000 investment)
>t. Mainer

[Anonymous No.14816446]

>>14810869
"Steak and Lobster". If you wanted to fuck a hot chick back in the late 80's this is the meal you'd give her, in a dimly lit place with orange carpet on the floor. Yes I know orange carpet was 70's but restaurants still had orange carpet well into the mid to late 80s. They didn't change decor every few months like they do now.

Steak and lobster, a few martinis and voila.

[Anonymous No.14816448]

>>14816169
That first lobster is going to be the most expensive one you will ever eat. However, you do get the second one at half price.

[Anonymous No.14816454]

>>14816446
imagine the braps

[Anonymous No.14816537]

>>14816159
>this triggers the janny

[Anonymous No.14816632]

>>14816454
We didn't do that back then. It wasn't considered and accomplishment.

[Anonymous No.14818060]

>>14810869
Just chill outside Red Lobster and dumpster dive

[Anonymous No.14818093]

>>14810869
Love it. My family has a boat and lobster fishing license on Cape Cod. I would never pay restaurant price but getting it fresh is great.

[Anonymous No.14819837]

>>14816169
>I have a bf
>I’m a ribeye man
Your primary meat is tubesteak

[Anonymous No.14819858]

>>14815632
>>14816088
I would associate "dead meat" with meat past expiration date that has turned green and smells like shit. This is why it isn't good idea to name your stuff like that

[Anonymous No.14819892]

>>14816424
What's it like living in Maine?

[Anonymous No.14819902]

>>14812686
I mean i like lobster but i get the riot imagine getting lobster every single day and it aint even done right

[Anonymous No.14820327]

>>14810968
Never hit Mount Vernon myself but sounds awesome! Big fan of Union Oyster House and Barking Crab though, good fucking shit hey

Fun Fax: at Barking Crab they'll give you a bucket of rocks instead of shell crackers because it's more fun to bludgeon your food apart before you eat it

[Anonymous No.14820340]

>>14820327
>at Barking Crab they'll give you a bucket of rocks instead of shell crackers because it's more fun to bludgeon your food apart before you eat it
I'm sold

[Anonymous No.14820342]

>>14810869
Lobster isn't that good. Crab is better.

[Anonymous No.14820365]

>>14810869
This but oysters. Lobster's okay but crab's better, but OYSTERS are fucking divine. And they cost so fucking much holy shit.

[Anonymous No.14820379]

>>14820327
>>14820340
My favorite was always the small wooden hammers.
I have fond memories of a campground down in Maryland that had an all you can eat crab event. Stretches of picnic tables with a bib and small wooden hammer for everyone. Freshly caught and cooked crab periodically dumped in a line down the middle of the tables.

[Anonymous No.14820383]

>>14812686

This.

The high cost of shipping it inland made it expensive and then companies started marketing it as high end.

It sort of like diamonds in that regard - a totally self - inflated market that run purely on hype.

I mean - I like lobster, but I've never thought it was worth the $$

[Anonymous No.14820389]

>>14812686
They weren't "for poor people".
It was fed to prisoners because it was going to go off. The riot wasn't because the prisoners were getting sick of eating it. They were literally getting stick from eating it, because as you can expect from seafood about to go off, some of it actually was off.

[Anonymous No.14820397]

>>14820389

You are mixing facts.

Lobster go bad notoriously quick - as is the case with most shellfish. Pretty much the second they die they its stomach enzymes seep out into the rest of its body, which makes the meat go bad quickly.

So yes - prisoners were fed bad lobsters and they rioted.

However - it was always considering a poor person's food because of the sheer abundance of them on the coasts.

After storms, lobster would wash up on shore by the hundreds, and, if you were quick, you could pick them up, cook them, and eat them before they had the chance to spoil. The first few years for the settlers were notoriously difficult, and the abundance of lobster probably became the crustacean's undoing in the settlers’ eyes. They would have eaten lobster almost constantly, and the smell of thousands of dead lobsters on a beach could have understandably put them off the food entirely.

So as time went on, lobster was identified as a subsistence food, something only to be eaten out of desperation. The people who still ate it were poor or lower class, and it was otherwise used as livestock feed and fertilizer.

[Anonymous No.14820468]

>>14820379
that sounds like fun. i love a seafood feast. ever had a proper clambake under the sand on the beach?

[Anonymous No.14820520]

>>14819858
Look man... it's not mooing or oinking or clucking on the plate.
Dead Meat BBQ is apparently already the name of a team, so your feels are safe unless you go to barbecue contests.