POT LUCKY: Bubba, whose life will be spared, dwarfs his tankmate at a Pittsburgh fish market. The lobster-palooza will live out his days at a museum.
Posted on 03/02/2005 2:11:10 AM PST by nickcarraway
He's a lobster, but he'd make a whale of a meal. But don't start melting butter or putting on your bib: the massive, 22- pound crustacean, plucked from the icy waters off Maine last week, is heading for a museum, not a dinner plate.
Yesterday, the owner of Wholey's fish market in Pittsburgh — where Bubba has been chillin' since Thursday — gave the leviathan lobster to the local zoo, which will send it to a Ripley's Believe It or Not aquarium.
Until yesterday's reprieve, store owner Bob Wholey was caught in the middle of a battle between People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which wanted the lobster freed, and a rival group, People for Eating Tasty Animals, which wanted the lobster fried. Bubba ranks as one of the most massive mollusks ever in captivity.
Typical lobsters are 1 1/2 pounds — and a diminutive denizen of the deep sharing his tank was only as big as Bubba's claw.
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Between 50 and 100 years old. Wow.
Disagree with PETA(ethical) and PETA(eating) - he'd be safest in a museum aquarium.
What does a 22 pound lobster eat?
Anything he wants!
Geeez and I was all set with 4 lbs of drawn butter!!!
But size perception is distorted and they always look about 2x bigger then they are. I can just imagine the shock of a 22 pounder looking like a 44 pounder in 50 feet of water!
All I would think of is if it would fit in my bag or should I ride it home!! :-)
Muummm yeah! And a chilled bottle of white wine and some crackers.
Whoa.
"Bubba ranks as one of the most massive mollusks ever in captivity."
These idiot writers need to learn taxonomy - it's not a mollusk, but a crustacean.
However, I would certainly eat that bad-boy.......
Mmmmmmm
Mmmmmmmmmm..
Lobstah......... Beeeeerrrrrrr. Butter........
Mmmmmmmmm.
Also, if I am not mistaken, the largest lobster ever captured weighed in at an amazing 44 pounds.
THat figure was tucked away in my brain-casing from years past and may be pure BS.
I have a hunch this is another liberty taken by the idiot writer - I never heard of anyone frying a lobster (And I live in Maine).
"I have a hunch this is another liberty taken by the idiot writer - I never heard of anyone frying a lobster (And I live in Maine)."
I expect your right.
The only way I've ever had lobster was either boiled, broiled, or steamed (with the corn, taters, clams and seaweed {and of-course beer}).
This lobster's a piker. There was one caught near Sag Harbor, Long Island, in the middle '70's that weighed in at 45+ poinds. I saw it. It was about the size of a german shepard.
"Oh, my God! I know him!!!"
Why are these kinds of stories always accompanied by the smallest, crappiest photos with practically nothing for scale?
Let the old man live out his life in the safety of an Aquarium.
I heard the larger ones were not as tasty
One helluva sea roach.
Wholey's fish market in Pittsburgh ping
Yes, but could he lead a blind man?
True, perhaps; but the freed/fried assonance would have been well-nigh irresistible.
In other news... NUM!
Dan
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