Posted on 03/08/2011 7:14:13 AM PST by Alex Murphy
What’s served in Halifax with plenty of mayonnaise and is as popular as the iPad 2?
(Popular for a few hours this past Wednesday, that is.)
Canadian Twitter users were somewhat perplexed to see the McLobster — sold at McDonald’s restaurants in the Maritimes and New England — mysteriously become a hot topic on the internet.
Some U.S. tweeters, thinking it was a new product, wanted to know when it would “launch.” (McDonald’s is famous for tailoring its menu to regional tastes. The Filet-O-Fish was introduced to appeal to Cincinnati-area Roman Catholic diners who abstained from meat on Fridays and Lent.)
One blog declared the sandwich to be fake. Well, it is indeed real — the ultimate mash-up between high and low cuisine (one Twitter user, @WatchJ, dubbed it the “rich people’s McRib”).
A call to a Halifax McDonald’s confirmed the treat is no hoax.
“It’s kind of like a tuna sandwich but with lobster in it,” as well as lettuce, explained a slightly confused employee, “on kind of like a hot dog bun.” It is sold in the summer for around $6.
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News story yesterday that Subway now has more outlets than McDonald’s.
My misses and I enjoyed these many times on our vaca in New Englandand the Maritimes back in 2001.
McLobster ROCKS! They have’em in New England.
That does not surprise me. It seems like every wide spot in the road has a Subway in rural Michigan.
Been doing this for years, as I follow Lent’s Friday rule of not eating meat. The Filet O fish is the cheapest food you could buy for close to a buck. The Subway version believe it or not, for seafood tastes like rubber.
Is it Michelle approved?.
Lettuce on a lobster roll?
“Looks pretty decent.”
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It certainly does.
But it can’t be good, it just can’t be.
After all it is “fast food”, and to the food snobs (even here on FR), that means it simply cannot taste good, and/or will kill you just by looking at it.
I get lettuce and tomato on my shrimp and oyster burgers all the time. Yum.
Oh, I feel so sorry for myself. I’ve never even seen shrimp and oyster burgers and there you are, getting to eat them all the time! Count your blessings. (maybe after wiping off your fingers.)
Best sandwich in the area is the fresh snapper filet burger. You can get it blackened or fried. I'm getting hungry!
I think the capital requirements are quite low compared to a fast food place that grills / frys.
Where does it say it's debuting for Lent? The article says, and you quoted, that "it is sold in the summer."
Can you tell she loved lobster?
Those guys on Discovery Channel are out risking their lives off the Grand Banks so McDonald’s can put chunks of lobster mixed with “special sauce” and lettuce on a hot dog roll? Gotta be imitation lobster...
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