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GreenMachine · 12-30-2007, 05:08 PM

Did you know that lobster used to be a poor man's food? In the 1800s, there were so many of them off the coast of New England, that it was not uncommon for several to wash ashore after a storm. People would collect them and eat them and make sandwiches out of them.

Rickers · 12-30-2007, 05:26 PM

I thik lobster is over rated, I would rather eat crab legs.

Maine Writer · 12-30-2007, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by rickers

I thik lobster is over rated, I would rather eat crab legs.

Me too. I wish they weren't so much work for so little meat for the crabs we have here.

Can you imagine looking at a lobster way back then and thinking that eating it would be a good idea? I'm glad someone did and I'm glad it wasn't me.

CelticLady1 · 12-30-2007, 05:40 PM

Well, actually I don't like either lobster or crab, but that was an interesting bit of trivia.

LaceyEx · 12-30-2007, 05:54 PM

I refuse to eat a lobster under 2 1/2 lbs-too much work-but love large lobster tails and claws. Also love King Crab legs.

GreenMachine · 12-30-2007, 06:23 PM

I'm trying to imagine the days where living in Maine, we could walk down the the sea shore, collect several dozen after a storm, and eat like kings -- only then kings didn't eat lobster.

miu · 12-30-2007, 08:11 PM

I would love to have a seaside house with a private beach that lobster and crabs washed ashore on. Wow. I do have a customer in Mystic, CT, her husband is a Greek and owns a fishing fleet, they have a dock and lobster pots. I would trade lives with her!

I love lobster claws the best, but when I eat a lobster, nothing goes to waste. I do love Maryland lumpmeat crabcakes too as a close second.

Fat Freddy · 12-31-2007, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by GreenMachine

...we could walk down the the sea shore, collect several dozen after a storm, and eat like kings...

Eating dead things that wash up on the beach doesn't exactly sound like Royal Cuisine.

BlueWillowPlate · 12-31-2007, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rickers

I thik lobster is over rated, I would rather eat crab legs.

I agree. Lobster is too rich, crab is a more subtle flavor.

Greenie, I actually knew that factoid, though I can't remember how.
I think basically meat was always more of a luxury than fish, though I guess it depended where you lived.

ara^bess · 12-31-2007, 08:32 AM

How interesting! I had no idea. They certainly have evolved into a more expensive meal now!!