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Who loves lobster?

>> No.5119910

I didn't like lobster until I deployed. In Afghanistan it was one of they best things served

>> No.5119915

I dunno about love, but I like it certainly.

>> No.5119918

It's ok. If it cost the same as shrimp I might eat it every so often just for variety's sake, but it's stupidly expensive considering it isn't actually a very good meat.

>> No.5119922

>>5119898
It's ok, but vastly overrated. I would eat it every so often if it weren't so expensive.

>> No.5119961

What makes it so expensive?

Rarity?
Demand?
Forced scarcity?
Culture?

>> No.5119972

My favorite food is a Florida lobster tail with melted butter and lemon juice on the side served over some perfectly steamed white rice with broccoli.

>> No.5119975

I do! (I like all seafood)

>> No.5120004

Mainer who loves lobster, haven't had it for 4 years due to high prices. You'd think it'd be cheaper here.

>> No.5120007

>>5119898

when I used to like in roadhead island, we'd go down to the cawks and get lobsters for a few buck from the seamen.

>> No.5120042

>>5119898
I don't understand why it's so expensive...

Crab and shrimp both taste better while being cheaper

>> No.5120071

I love seafood, especially lobster. I think it's overpriced, but it's good if it can be prepared well which isn't hard. I live in MD though, so I'm all about those blue crabs.

>> No.5120080

i don't know why people think it's the best thing ever. it's not bad, but i'd rather have crab or shrimp.

>> No.5120083

Lobster is good, but not good enough that I'll pay status symbol prices for it when equally good things like clams, squid and mussels are cheap.

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>>5120007
Lol, seamen, i'll never get over that old joke.

>> No.5120365

Lobsters taste good but it's too sad to eat them.

>> No.5120394

>>5119961
Fishermen are having issues selling all the lobster they catch so...

>> No.5120424

>>5119961
takes about 5 - 7 years for a lobster to reach legal size

>> No.5120436

>>5120424

shouldn't you be passed out drunk in a vat of drawn butter by this time of day?

>> No.5120440

>>5120436
about to start drinking soon

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>>5119898
I do

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>>5120705

>> No.5120720

>>5119910
the fuck? you mean my tax dollars are buying millions of lobster dinners for soldiers in the fucking desert? I thought you fuckers ate spam and m&ms n' sheeit

>> No.5120730

>>5120720
Those not out in the field get fed purty good. Otherwise it's MREs and anal gaping shits.

>> No.5120749

>>5120720
back during the great war my grandpa said the meal they were served when deployed consisted of a sandwich and 4 cigarettes

>> No.5120770

>>5120749

>sandwich and 4 cigarettes

Most of the GI's were overseas for the first time and got some of the lingo confused, I think what he meant was what before deploying he and his buddies would do the "four fag sandwich"

>> No.5120791

Fun Fact:
Once upon a time lobster was a trash food fed to prisoners.
There were actually prison riots where the prisoners were demanding/begging to not be fed any more lobsters.
Eating RATS had less stigma than eating lobsters.

There were actually laws passed, and are still on the books, regarding the inhumane conditions of feeding prisoners with lobster meat, it actually went to court on counts of being a "Cruel and Unusual Punishment".


Personally, I don't like the texture of the meat, nor the effort/mess of it at the dinner table.

>Go to fancy seafood restaurant.
>Be dressed in good silk suit.
>Order fancy seafood platter as it was what everyone else was getting, so why not.
>Trying to work lobster apart.
>lobster guts and butter juice explode from the shell onto my suit.
>damnitalltohell.jpeg.

>> No.5120811

>>5120770
german detected

>> No.5121672

>>5120791
They were poor people food back then for different reasons than taste, mainly being:
>Low amount of edible yield
>Difficult prep compared to other available food
>Short shelf-life with poor storage, was most likely rotten before reaching any destination
>Sensitive and fragile meat requiring specific cooking and prep
>Being infrequently caught usually as accidents, and rarely edible/worth eating due to insufficient size
Lobster, which has been eaten in many parts of the world, is being enjoyed now because we have come far enough to be able to enjoy it with our better preparation and preservation knowledge. The price of it is definitely not justified however and artificially inflated because of the "rich" stigma.