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Bizarre Blue Lobster Saved From the Pot and to Go on Display at the London Aquarium
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| 11/17/2011
| Euan Stretch
Posted on 11/17/2011 4:23:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
HE was heading for a pan of boiling water, ready to be served up for dinner.
But this electric-blue lobster has given scientists food for thought instead because of its colour.
The eye-catching crustacean named Lionel was caught by fishermen off Scotland and sent to a London market.
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But fishmonger Rex Goldsmith thought he was too beautiful to eat and bought him for a tenner before handing him over to the Natural History Museum.
Rex, 45, who saw Lionel at Billingsgate Market while buying supplies for his Chelsea Fishmonger shop, said: Its the most striking blue lobster I have seen in 30 years in the business and was too nice to put in a pot and boil.
The museum believes the European lobster, usually a much darker shade of blue, has a rare genetic variant.
Lionel will go on display at the London Aquarium well it would be shellfish not to show him off.
TOPICS: Food; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blue; lobster; london
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Is there such a thing a blue drawn butter?
To: nickcarraway; TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
“...well it would be shellfish not to show him off.”
Pun made me want to claw my eyes out...
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:25:32 PM PST
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: Winstons Julia
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:27:29 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: nickcarraway
Surprising that it lived tghat long..In nature..mutations involving color usually do not survive..because they can’t hide in their environment..
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:29:20 PM PST
by
ken5050
(OH SHIT****NOT MITT!!!)
To: nickcarraway
Is there such a thing a blue drawn butter?Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it...
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:30:44 PM PST
by
null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:33:38 PM PST
by
Winstons Julia
(Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
To: nickcarraway
It’s just been out of the water too long!
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:35:05 PM PST
by
Boiling point
(Cain / Palin 2012)
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:36:55 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: ken5050
With a rattle can of Krylon® I can sell you a lot of blue lobsters.
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:37:03 PM PST
by
donhunt
(Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
To: nickcarraway; All
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:44:07 PM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: nickcarraway
He’s just cold. Stick him in a pot of hot water and he’ll taste fine.
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:46:07 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: nickcarraway
Looks pretty much like a Homarus Americanus to me.
To: nickcarraway
I wish you would clam up!
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posted on
11/17/2011 4:54:24 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Maryland girl on the Cain Train)
To: nickcarraway
Aaah, he’s real purdy.
Guess we won’t know why he’s blue until the autopsy.
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posted on
11/17/2011 5:17:14 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
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To: TribalPrincess2U
It’s probably not methemoglobinemia . . . . that turns people blue.
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posted on
11/17/2011 5:41:54 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: ken5050
“Surprising that it lived tghat long..In nature..mutations involving color usually do not survive..because they cant hide in their environment..”
Unlike red lobsters.
I don’t know, I don’t see too many ‘Blue Lobster’ restaurants so they must be doing something right.
To: ken5050
Surprising that it lived tghat long..In nature..mutations involving color usually do not survive..because they cant hide in their environment..I doubt it was pulled from shallow water. It was probably deeper in blue water.
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posted on
11/17/2011 5:53:03 PM PST
by
fso301
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