Rare blue lobster found in Conn. river avoids the cooker

[GoddessOfGuinness]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4885390.html

Associated Press

NEW LONDON, Conn. — Call it crustacean discrimination.

A lobster caught last weekend by Steve Hatch and his uncle Robert Green was spared from being cooked and ripped apart on a plate because of its color.

The 1 1/2 -pound clawed creature is bright blue, the result of an extremely rare genetic mutation

[amitten]

1. It's really pretty. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Isn't he though?

I hope he gets to be HUGE!

[xchrom]

2. live long and prosper, lobster!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. Hear, hear!

:thumbsup:

[lost-in-nj]

5. He is beautiful

but I gotta wonder who in their right mind
would eat something that had a
"rare genetic mutation".......!!!!!

:shrug:


lost

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. in a way we all do when we eat genetically altered foods

[cobalt1999]

9. maybe he'd taste EXTRA good.

Lobsters must curse the evolutionary path that made them so delicious.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. You have to wonder, when people eat frog legs...

whether any of those legs came from 3-legged frogs...

[SteppingRazor]

7. Whoa ... he looks DELICIOUS!

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Too pretty to eat...

He looks like he'd taste like blue raspberry snocone.

[In_The_Wind]

8. Hurray! He's going to meet some new friends.

Perhaps there will be little blue lobsters in the news.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. That would be cool!

Baby blue lobsters...

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11. eh, the meat was probably tough anyway

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. Or tasted like

cotton candy.