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."

[Spunky]

Beautiful.

[Daffynition]

[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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[Daffynition]

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/

[Daffynition]

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?????
:-)

[Daffynition]

[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]