Posted on 06/06/2018 1:30:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
WESTBORO (CBS) – Workers at a Roche Bros. supermarket got quite the surprise last week – an extremely rare orange lobster.
The pumpkin-like male lobster was easy to spot in a shipment of lobsters from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia to the Westboro store.
According to the New England Aquarium, the 1 2/3 pound orange lobster is “considerably more rare than a blue lobster.” The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine said the likelihood of a lobster being orange is 1 in 30 million.
The lobster is believed to be about 7 to 9 years old, and aquarium experts say he’s lucky to be alive given that his color was “flashing a neon sign to many large fish predators.” Some lobsters have odd colors if they lack the right protein to produce the normal pigment.
This rare lobster won’t end up at anyone’s clambake. After a month-long quarantine, he’ll be on display either at the New England Aquarium or in Japan.
Do the orange ones taste better?
They ALL turn orange.................sooner or later................
This rare lobster won’t end up at anyone’s clambake. After a month-long quarantine, he’ll be on display either at the New England Aquarium or in Japan.
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I wonder how much they are getting for him?
Orange Privilege.
I was thinking the same thing.
Pre-cooked?
Stay away from the orange ones.
Yummy!!!! Pass the drawn butter!
The odds of not being orange in Tennessee?
Well lets just say it’s low...very very low.
The odds of not being orange in Tennessee?
Well lets just say it’s low...very very low.
Orange is the new black. Lobsters are black when alive, red when boiled.
There are postcards showing a gigantic lobster being brought from the sea into a boat.Lobster is red.Wrong.
Orange lobsters matter
Remembering the story of Rush and Mary Tyler Moore bidding on a lobster. She wanting to save it and he wanting to eat it.
And in one of the great lobster quotes ever, MTM says “Like humans, they flirt with one another and have even been seen walking ‘claw-in-claw!’ And like humans, lobsters feel pain.”
Looks “pre-cooked” to me.
Pre-boiled.
Hillary would look good to me in orange...
Orange you glad you found that can of orange paint?
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