EDHATBARBARA
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2012-08-31 02:53 PM |
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I visited Boston a couple times and enjoyed standing at a counter at Faneuil Hall, where I ate (with great relish!) 1-1/2 lb. Maine lobsters for $10 -- steamed, cracked and served piping hot with drawn butter. My tummy gurgles with the memory! I think I ate one every day of my time there.
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COMMENT 314785
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2012-08-31 02:58 PM |
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Ya but in Maine I bet an avocado is $5 a piece.
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COMMENT 314798
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2012-08-31 03:31 PM |
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Maine had a major glut of lobsters this year driving prices down. Supply V. Demand.
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COMMENT 314801
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2012-08-31 03:37 PM |
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I'll gladly trade some Avocado for some Lobster!
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MTNDRIVER
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2012-08-31 04:11 PM |
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Yeah, what 798 said. Such a glut of lobsters in Maine this year the lobstermen aren't making any profit.
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COMMENT 314828P
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2012-08-31 05:09 PM |
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To each his own 801. I personally do not like lobster. I do like avocados.
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AQUAHOLIC
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2012-08-31 05:37 PM |
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I love avocados, but I LOOOOOVE lobster more! This breaks my heart, cuz I really like our local spiny lobster but the Maine lobster is soooo much better, and apparently, obscenely affordable....let's see, can I afford a plane ticket to Maine?....hmmmm.
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COMMENT 314843P
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2012-08-31 08:24 PM |
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Did you know that the abundance of lobsters was such that they were used to feed cattle in the 1800's? It's true!
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SHOREBIRD
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2012-08-31 09:02 PM |
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843P
Not only that but they fed lobsters to inmates who complained about the frequency of having to eat lobsters as if it were bologna sandwiches like prisoners get now-a-days.
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COMMENT 314843P
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2012-09-01 05:19 AM |
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Lobster season starts Oct. 1 - learn how to dive!
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COMMENT 314872
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2012-09-01 08:02 AM |
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Cash only means...the tax structure needs to change so cash business owners/employees pay taxes, too. A lot of cash business around and Uncle Sam thinks they are un-employed and we gives them food stamps for that drawn butter.
Looks yummy!
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COMMENT 314882
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2012-09-01 08:48 AM |
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I like California lobsters.
I remember one time my wife and I were having dinner at a local restaurant, close to the kinkoes on state street. The waiter said tonight we are serving fresh local lobster. I ask are these frozen fresh lobsters. He said no they were recently caught. This was in the month of June. I ask him if he knew that lobster season had been closed for over two months. He told me I need to talk to the manager.
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COMMENT 314889
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2012-09-01 09:18 AM |
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Supply and demand...some percentage of local California lobster goes straight from the boat to airplanes to be sold in Asia for lots of $$$
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COMMENT 314902
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2012-09-01 09:47 AM |
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Japan pays more to the fisherman than we do. So they get the lobster, and we have to pay what they pay if we want local bugs.
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COMMENT 314928
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2012-09-01 11:38 AM |
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I like when a local restaurant has "fresh local Ahi" on the menu. Local is a very large area. I guess it came from the Pacific and that makes it local.
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DRBUD
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2012-09-01 12:22 PM |
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Yes they get a much better price but that means you would have to Live There to enjoy it. How does that price suit you??
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CORKY
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2012-09-01 02:19 PM |
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Loved the comment about "fresh" local lobster.
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COMMENT 314995
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2012-09-01 03:06 PM |
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I am curious as to why people continue to eat lobsters. Lobsters are such cool creatures. Ever since I saw how they walk across the ocean floor, all in a line, with antennae touching the lobster in front of them-----I refuse to eat such beautiful and innocent animals. Keeping them in filthy tanks, with their claws rubberbanded is cruel and horrible. Go veggie.
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FLICKA
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2012-09-01 03:15 PM |
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928, You're right about what "local" means to some. The owners of a coffee place here in Carp have a sign out front, "local organic coffee". I keep meaning to go in and find out where the "local" coffee plantation is. Love local lobster.
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