[canuck_conservative]

LOBSTER TAILS ARE NOT FROM LOBSTERS

.... they are a type of crayfish, marketed as “lobster tail” ... but definitely not a true lobster.

[paulycy]

.... they are a type of crayfish, marketed as “lobster tail” ... but definitely not a true lobster.

That makes sense based on how they taste, which is quite unlike lobster IMO. It also explains this: Twice I've tried "lobster tail" as an add-on on a dinner (at different restaurants) and both times I got tiny, shrivelled and non-lobster tasting...stuff...that seemed much more like a deceased garden insect than any kind of tasty seafood.

[FlyVet]

Well...I attended the Crawfish Festival in Biloxi years ago, and damn that was some good eatin', although you had to eat a mountain of them little things...boiled in cajun spice. Nothing better, and such a friendly and crazy crowd.

You'd see a few dozen people dancing on top of those folding tables, which couldn't handle the weight, and then one of the legs would cave in, and they'd all go sliding down into a pile of human and crawfish carcasses, laughing their arses off. It was something to behold. Oh the humanity.

Those Mississipians know how to party.

[Rebelbase]

“. but definitely not a true lobster”

Same with the Florida “lobster”. When I was a kid we’d camp on an island in the northern keys for a few days, spend all our money on beer and eat nothing but “lobsters” we caught.

Burned me out on them then and now.