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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No, but I do know how to ship Japanese to Maine so they arrive edible for lobsters.
Makes for good conversation. I've come to enjoy the strange looks and then the response. "How the h*ll do you know that?"
"I've come to enjoy the strange looks and then the response. "How the h*ll do you know that?""
Tracking 5x5 on that!
"I've come to enjoy the strange looks and then the response. "How the h*ll do you know that?""
Tracking 5x5 on that!
Freepmail me if you're serious.
How unfair is it that they sent a Jewish reporter to cover this story? That is just mean.
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Frightening indeed! A 3 1/2 foot lobster could take the pot away from you and hit you with it!
"Frightening indeed! A 3 1/2 foot lobster could take the pot away from you and hit you with it!"
Bet you couldn't even eat the small claw in one sitting.....
What a waste. He could've fed a lot of people had he met his end in a boiling bucket of water.
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