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[theweaselking]

Mmmm. Cheap lobster.

For $3/lb, I'd be having it daily. For the record. I'd probably get tired after a few days but still.

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[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Aaaaugh!

Giant pre-historic bugs.

Aaaaugh!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Tasty, tasty giant prehistoric bugs!

[caerlas.livejournal.com]

If you were having it daily then you'd been in for a heart attack at an early age. They have one of the highest cholesterol contents of any food.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

DELICIOUS prehistoric bugs.

One of the things I miss, living out here. King crab legs are yummy but IT'S NOT THE SAME.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

So you're not down wit the Diet of Bugs?

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I suspect Fallout 3 may not be for you.

-- Steve likes his giant radscorpion lightly missile-fried with drawn butter on the side. (And rice pilaf, please; the diet.)

[clinkerfiasco.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Where I grew up we ate lobster a couple of times a week. Other meals consisted of mussels, wrinkles, salmon, trout, crab, deer, moose, etc. Basically anything that had a heartbeat in Northern Quebec.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Back in Colonial days, servants in Maine went on strike (or whatever the pre-labor-theory word for work stoppage is) and eventually got a law passed that said they couldn't be fed lobster more than three times a week.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Having grown up in the land of dirt cheap lobster, it loses its appeal pretty quickly. If you drive along the roads of Southern Maine, you see tons of places selling inexpensive lobster to the tourists. You can tell the natives by the steak or caeser salads they're eating. ;)

More popular among the native populace is the lobster roll, which is lobster meat and mayonnaise stuffed into a hot dog roll (or a smaller version) and grilled.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

it loses its appeal pretty quickly.

But I don't live there. Lobster is, for me, unusual, and hence still good.

I remember being one of those tourists in Nova Scotia as a kid. Mmmm, lobster.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have it daily *for long*, since I'd get tired - but if a local store started selling it at $3? I'd certainly be eating it for most of a week.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Basically anything that had a heartbeat in Northern Quebec.

People don't believe me when I tell them the rural Quebecois gastronomic philosophy is "is it moving slow enough for me to catch it?"

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"Non? Okay, den, can I still hits it from da car?"

[kadath.livejournal.com]

There's a reason I brought a couple of boxes of granola bars on visits to Mom's side of the family, even before I became vegetarian. Some of the older relatives have been known to keep live eels in the bathtub for a day or two to keep them "fresh" for special occasions...like, say, when the American relatives are visiting. *gag*

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

*nod* It used to be "poor white trash" food.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

grilled mayo? ewwwwwwwwww

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Considering that mayonnaise is: Oil. Egg. Mustard....

I don't really consider it any worse than a grilled hot dog, or eggs and bacon.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

They are giant bottom-feeding bugs. I'm with the servants on this one.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

It does, however, look like ass.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

"Some McDonald's restaurants in New England and the Canadian Maritimes offer lobster rolls as a seasonal menu item, called the McLobster."

...Just, no.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who actually orders them, but someone is doing it, because they're back every summer.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I really had much the same reaction when Subway was hawking a ($12 for a six inch) lobster sub. I'm not mixing 'fast food' and 'easily spoiled fish', I'm just not.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

*nod* I'm not inclined to eat lobster either.

Now, shrimp, in a garlic butter sauce? Oh hell yeah.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

There was, in the ground floor of the building I live in, a restaurant that did Philly cheesesteaks (and pretty damn good ones at that). They also had other sandwiches on their menu, served up in the same style.

One of them, I shit you not, was a grilled salmon sandwich. I asked one of the people who worked there about it, and they just looked at me... with that look of utter horror and say "No, you don't want to try it." (Obviously, their boss was not around.)

Damn shame they're gone though... they did a really good cheesesteak sandwich.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with mayo. It's the concept of grilling the mayo. *shudder*

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

I prefer the Diet of Worms. Much more posh.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Martin Luther does not agree. His Diet of Worms, not so tasty.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

I moved to (godforsaken) PEI three months ago and still haven't had the lobster. I am, however, more of a snow crab kind of girl.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

Then you could just make lobstertinis!

[clinkerfiasco.livejournal.com]

Heehee. Well, if you are lost in the woods and starving, the easiest thing to kill is a porcupine. (Easiest in that it just takes one bop on the head with a stick. Though the quills can be a bit tricky to work around. :P )

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

How do you get five syllables into "aaaaugh!"? Have you been studying southern Baptist preachers?

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Any chance you're into Irish Trad? If so, check out Jim and Laura Ferrell or Guinness (http://www.guinnesstheduo.com/)as they're called. They're a husband/wife singing duo. They home on P.E.I. and go down the east coast, as far as Florida each year. Drank my first pint of Guinness listening to them as a teenager, down at the Harp and Thistle pub. One of the few things I miss since moving out west.