[ccmay]

Giant water-borne bugs. I'll pass, thanks.

When the Pilgrims came, the Indians would use lobster only to bait their cod-fishing hooks, or in dire emergencies when people were starving.

[aruanan]

Maine has record lobster harvest (Yum)

Beware Michelle Obama incoming.

[Maine Mariner]

For years lobster was fed to prisoners because it was so cheap.

[Cincinna]

That first cold horrible Winter, the Puritans at Plymouth Colony survived on Lobster & Clams. Half of them did not survive that first Winter.

[Daffynition]

Lobsters were used as fertilizer by the Indians..

"L In colonial times, lobsters were considered "poverty food." They were harvested from tidal pools and served to children, to prisoners, and to indentured servants, who exchanged their passage to America for seven years of service to their sponsors. In Massachusetts, some of the servants finally rebelled. They had it put into their contracts that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week."