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"Pinchy, I'll never forget you!"
Posted on 06/13/2006 7:18:16 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan
When we had a hundred or so to cook at Catalina, when the pots were full we put them on the floor and had lobster races while they were waiting for their turn!
Just curl their tail up and stick their heads in the water and it only takes about 3 seconds before they lose their kick.
I asked the seafood clerk at the market where we buy our lobsters "how do you clean the tank?"
She replied: we don't. THEY (indicating the lobsters) do.
(Mmmm... bottom feeders!)
Well, what do you think is in that luscious, sought-after green tomalley, anyway?
How can something so ugly taste so good? Makes me want to try eating tarantulas.
I'm going crabbing tomorrow - the lobsters are too far offshore and I don't feel like getting in a boat.........
Mmmm, I'm smelling the butter and the fire from Caribbean grilled lobsters now - mops and mops of butter over split lobsters. Oh, my.
Well, OK - begging to know if there is a different "secret" from the way I do it. If you take hold of the little pincer and kind of rock it back and forth, it will loosen the cartilage thingy that goes down inside there and the meat comes right out, whole. I make lobster salads and have to do it that way. It's just like big crabs, except a litle harder to pull. Is there another way?
When one of my nieces was really little, like 2-3, we went to the fishmonger's and I was asking her what she wanted to have for dinner. I knew she liked Alaskan King crab legs, so pointed those out.
She kept saying "potters, potters." I was just going along, yeah, uh-huh. "Potters, that's right." LOL. I thought she was saying "butters" or something.
Turns out I later learned she was saying "spiders, spiders." But she did like them and did eat them. Not Miss Muffett, for sure.
Somehow poetic to all of the lefties from Maine.
They do have brains actually, I think the marketing folks at The Lobster Institute are streching the truth so more people won't feel guilty about eating our yummy little friends. They are small and primative, but they are a "brain". Food tastes better when you know that it suffered.
Heading down a slippery slope here. Next thing would be to ban antibiotics because some study proved that bacteria feel pain.
I used to dive for them. They can swim away PDQ. In three seconds, they're so far away, it's not worth the air to swim
after them, hoping they'd set down.
And they really know how to wedge themselves in crevices.
They dug a hole in his backyard to create a steam pit. Nothing went right, but it turned out okay.
Somebody bought a book after the fact on how to do it, and you're supposed to kill the lobbies before you put them on
the seaweed to be slowly steamed.
No, lobsters do not feel pain. Their central ganglion is rudimentary at best. I spent 2 years studying lobster neural anatomy at Woods Hole, and wrote an even half-dozen peer-reviewed papers on the subject.
And then I became a lobsterman!
Look, the water in those tanks is refrigerated. The cold water and confined space slows the lobsters' metabolism. As it is, they very comfortably can go months without eating.
Plus, poop-free lobster tastes better!
Your 4- pounders probably came from Area 3- offshore from the Canadian Border to North Carolina. Mass and Maine have the infrastructure to ship to the US west. Nova Scotia's Select (1.5 lb+) lobsters tend to go to Europe Via Boston.
Again, no, they don't have a brain. The central ganglion has a bulb behind the lobster's eyes that principally houses the nerve bundles that handle vision. The processes that make up this section of the central ganglion account for 60% of the weight of the central ganglion. In other words, what gets mistaken for a 'brain" is the optic nerves! Incidentally, there are no receptors that can handle much beyond vision cues. I know. I looked for them. For 2 years.
Also, the Lobster Institute is made up of scientists, not marketing people or lobstermen.
Incientally, please don't call 'em 'lobbies'. Sounds kinda, uh, suspect... the proper slang term for insiders is "Bugs."
I stand corrected, my original statement was based on knowledge collected from a biology class 15 years ago. I just did some googling and learned about how autonomous the ganglion are in lobsters. What surprises me is that there is a lot of literature and diagrams on the net that still refer to the central ganglion as a brain. The anatomists, biologists and zoologists need to get together and get the definitions straight on what a brain really is.
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