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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:06 PM
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Poll question: Lobster - overrated?
Granted - I'm a New Englander where lobster pots are a regular thing - cut me some slack!
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:07 PM
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1. just overpriced... n/t
Edited on Tue Jul-12-05 07:07 PM by RPM
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:53 PM
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41. Yup
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:07 PM
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2. it's like eating a giant cockroach
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:09 PM
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5. kinda Like shrimp then
the baby cockroaches of the sea. :puke:
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:09 PM
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6. If you had said "like eating a giant krill" I'd maybe agree with you
Edited on Tue Jul-12-05 07:09 PM by ChavezSpeakstheTruth
Cockroach? I'm not feelin' ya!
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:17 PM
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18. They're related to roaches.
I don't eat them.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:53 PM
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42. I'm related to a fish - I eat them
:D
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:07 PM
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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!!!
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:08 PM
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4. Lobster = ROACH
:puke
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:11 PM
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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?
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:22 PM
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21. I did hear they are from the same species family.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:44 PM
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25. I believe a lobster is an arachnid - thus more closely related to spiders
and lice!
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:55 PM
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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.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:33 PM
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35. They still are wonderfull in a Fra Diavlo sauce!
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:09 PM
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7. They ARE freaking bugs
All the same, I love some of them!!!



david
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:12 PM
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9. Piss off, Zoidberg!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:12 PM
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10. I don't know, but what's the green shit people dig out from the front?
:puke:
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:14 PM
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12. Delicious!
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:15 PM
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15. I know!
:puke:
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Amaya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:21 PM
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20. it's a delicacy
:D
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NawlinsNed Donating Member (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:28 PM
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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.
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:56 PM
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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. :)
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:12 PM
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11. One can never over-rate lobster. Yum!
Except, maybe, non-Maine lobster.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:15 PM
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14. (((( (((( (((( !!!!YES!!!! )))) )))) ))))
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Amaya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:15 PM
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13. delicious!
lobster rolls are the best :9
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:16 PM
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17. ***grrrggrrrlllll****
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:16 PM
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16. The Only Reason To Move To New England
Cheap lobster and steamers fresh from the Atlantic. With butter. And lemon.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:45 PM
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27. Cheap? If you have a lobster pot, maybe!
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:50 PM
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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.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 09:32 PM
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43. It's $13.00/ lb in Michigan
so anything less is CHEAP!
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:19 PM
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19. I speak fluent Crustacean
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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:24 PM
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22. UUUUUMMMMMMM------Lobster
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:30 PM
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24. I'd rather have shrimp fresh out of the Gulf any day.
Much tastier, in my opinion.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:44 PM
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26. But I have to admit...I prefer Dungeness Crab
or even Maryland Blue Crab.
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:48 PM
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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!
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:55 PM
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31. my favorite!
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 07:57 PM
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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!
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:31 PM
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34. Shreeaaaak SHREAAAAK!!!!! BUTTERR!!!!! MMMMMMMM!!!!
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:35 PM
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36. It's the food of the gods...manna from heaven.
In other words, I like it.

:)
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:36 PM
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37. Lobstah and steamahs with lots of buttah
:9

Lobster is the nectar of the gods!
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:38 PM
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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?
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:42 PM
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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.

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-05 08:53 PM
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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:
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