Posted on 01/03/2010 6:59:01 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Low lobster demand puts fishermen in red
By Bernard Simon in Toronto
Published: January 1 2010 21:02 | Last updated: January 1 2010 21:02
At a time when prices for commodities such as tea, cocoa and sugar are soaring to their highest levels in years, lobster, a delicacy associated with luxury living, is selling at bargain prices.
Prices have sunk so far over the past two years that some mass-market restaurant chains have added lobster to their menus. Tennessee-based Ruby Tuesday, with about 850 outlets in the US, offers lobster tails, as well as lobster carbonara and lobster macaroni and cheese.
Hannaford Supermarkets, a New England chain in the heart of the US lobster industry, has the crustacean on special this week at $4.99 a pound, half the price of halibut.
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
But I can run by Race Street Fish and get live lobsters for a whole lot less than 27 bucks a throw. They fly them in from Maine and taste mighty good any time of year
“Those Mississipians know how to party.”
They learned how from the La. cajuns ;-)
I’ll give you that. No arguments. :)
Lobster is overrated. Give me a Dungeness crab any day of the week.
Confession - I have an inside track on that...I grew up there.
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