Extremely rare calico-colored lobster found at Massachusetts restaurant

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/calico-lobster-found-massachusetts-restaurant-a-1-in-30-million-discovery-article-1.1075493 ^ | May 10, 2012 | David Boroff

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An extremely rare lobster was saved Monday by an alert employee at a Massachusetts restaurant.

The unusually colored “calico” lobster is marked by bright orange and yellow spots. But the extraordinary find could have easily ended up in someone's belly at Jasper White's Summer Shack restaurant in Cambridge.

“We happened to be cleaning the tank and I happened to be there," White told the Boston Globe. "One of my guys said, 'Chef, look at this lobster,' and from across the room I knew it was special."

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[Sacajaweau]

Looks tasty....

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A math professor contacted by the aquarium calculated the probability of seeing all three together in the wild at one in 900 quintillion -- or one in 900,000,000,000,000,000,000.

I believe all lobsters when cooked, turn red-orange. Pass the melted butter?

[Daffynition]

You betcha! :)

[NativeSon]

looks moldy

[patriot08]

I hope they let it go or put it in a aquarium. It i special.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Actually, the odds are quite a bit lower than that.

Mainly because all you'd need to do is find two of them together...then introduce a blue lobster to the mix. These can be easily created by feeding any lobster a diet of....lobster. This is what creates the blue coloring.

Cheating? Perhaps a bit.

[patriot08]

i- is

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

"What's so cool about that? Can I have it though?"

[ArrogantBustard]

I can haz lobster???

[Sacajaweau]

I looked all over for fresh lobster yesterday....Alas...this is not Maine...

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

[BenLurkin]

Cool camo.

God knows what he is doing!

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

i- is

I- sez, no you ain't.

[NFHale]

That’s actually a VERY cool looking li’l critter...Sort of looks like camouflage.

The blue one is neat too.

[NFHale]

What really boggles the mind, though, is this....

..Who was the first person that looked at one of these things and said “HEY!!! I can EAT that!!!!”

Just sayin’...

[COBOL2Java]

Who was the first person that looked at one of these things and said “HEY!!! I can EAT that!!!!”

[NFHale]

HAHAH!!!

NICE one!!

But the worst part of it is - WE have to PAY for his lobster!!!

[rightwingextremist1776]

That CLOWN actually put the napkin into his shirt like an 8 YO? What a freekin doofus.

[Spunky]

Beautiful.

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[NFHale]

Ahh!! Appetizers!!!

[Daffynition]

Huh?

Coloration

[elcid1970]

I thought the leadoff was “An extremely rare lobster was served today...” Hey, does the lobster KNOW it’s rare?

Ooof... when I think “rare”, I think “steak”, why am I suddenly hungry? Surf & turf, yeah, that’s the ticket.

;^)

[Daffynition]

AWWWWWWWW! Don't get her spoiled on lobsta!

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Tastes like..................lobster.

[freedomlover]

I see Lenin on his right arm.

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Who are you accusing as acting like a 8 y/o? HUMPH!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—..Who was the first person that looked at one of these things and said “HEY!!! I can EAT that!!!!”——

Lobster was so plentiful in colonial times that it was fed to prisoners housed on Boston harbor islands.

Other fun facts:

http://www.history.com/news/2011/06/15/a-taste-of-lobster-history/

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Without the camo...

[NFHale]

That’s treating them pretty darned good, I’d say...

[left that other site]

Couldn’t that put us at risk of...

Mad Lobster Disease?????
:-)

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[left that other site]

Yikes! Who is THAT???? LOL!

[Docbarleypop]

The gingham dog and the calico lobster,
Side by side on the table and did not stir

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Just relating what I was told by a Marine Biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute years ago.

Not saying it is the only reason there are blue lobsters but that is one way of creating one.

[Daffynition]

I love the *fry* lobster tanks there...with the little guys swirling around....they’re smaller than a postage stamp. You can see how vulnerable they are in the wild.

[Daffynition]

A victim of *Mad Lobster Disease* [above]

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Scary Symptoms! LOLOL!

[Daffynition]

Don't look if you are squeemish....but this is what a lobster pulled from LI Sound looks like these days. The lobster industry here is pretty much decimated.

They look like something *made in China*

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Is that from pollution?

[editor-surveyor]

A cammo lobster.

[Focault's Pendulum]

AWWWWWWWW! Don't get her spoiled on lobsta!

I made the mistake of giving my two cats some shrimp the other day. I am now really doomed.

I think they're hunting me for my stash.

[Daffynition]

Ut oh! You’re in trouble now!

I hope those shrimp had *eyes*....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2875310/posts#31

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They don’t seem to know...reminds me of chronic wasting disease in the whitetail deer population.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Mystery-in-the-Sound-Why-are-the-shells-of-625907.php

Millions have been spent cleaning up the CT River and they did a pretty good job of it in the past few decades....the LI sound seems to be problematic however; it’s been a few years since I’ve had lobster from CT boats. It’s a shame.

They’ve been promoting a ban: http://blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2010/06/biologists-urge-5year-lobster.html

Grown men cry: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601341.html

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Moochelle will be deeply saddened when she hears this.