Posted on 02/20/2011 5:27:07 PM PST by nuconvert
Depends on where you are I guess. Prices were lower in previous years due to demand being lower. Around here, lobsters are more expensive than maybe a chuck steak on sale, or cube steak, maybe a sirloin but less than a top kind of steak. $5’ll get a pound and a quarter lobster.
AM I the only one who would like to get enough money to start hiring fishers to hunt lobster for me? Then I keep the lobster, pay them boatloads of cash, and then munch on lobster ot my merry heart’s content? Or failing that, do it myself?
For years lobster was fed to prisoners because it was so cheap.
Most people that eat them wouldn’t catch / kill / cook them themselves. But then again, you could say the same thing about most people who eat meat.
I have always believed that when you get hungry enough, you will eat anything. I tell that to every Vegan that I ever meet.
Hunger creates hunters, while hunters cure hunger.
Can’t wait = the spring ritual: Our Lobster pound will be firing up the ovens come Easter -
LOL! Are they doing sommersaults or headstands?
The steer pen at Kroger. That would be sweet!
For some reason they are more than that down here in Florida.
they are sleeping. You rub them in a certain spot and they go to sleep - and you just stand them on their heads.
I'll pass, thanks.
Thankee. More for the rest of us.
I thought global warming was killing everything!
Chaqu’un a son gout!
I love Lobster. It is,to me,the most perfect delicious food. So versatile, hot , cold, stuffed, salad, stew, We all have our own personal and
regional preferences.
We of New England ancestry love our Lobster.
I’m happy to learn the the crop was so bountiful. That means lower prices, and more people can enjoy what used to be considered a rare, expensive delicacy.
They fell asleep during 0bama’s state of the union address.
That first cold horrible Winter, the Puritans at Plymouth Colony survived on Lobster & Clams. Half of them did not survive that first Winter.
sure, maybe this year, lobsters are plentiful in Maine, more scarce in Florida. Do they even have lobsters in Florida? There’s water of course, but the warmer weather
I was wondering about the “Canada” on the bands of the bugs I bought for Super Bowl Sunday. Here in rural WV we’re kinda limited in places to get live lobster. A Krogers about 50 miles away is the closest I can get them...$13.99/lb.
"L In colonial times, lobsters were considered "poverty food." They were harvested from tidal pools and served to children, to prisoners, and to indentured servants, who exchanged their passage to America for seven years of service to their sponsors. In Massachusetts, some of the servants finally rebelled. They had it put into their contracts that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week."
We have a spiny lobster. Basically the same except no claws and I can swim out in the warm water and get one myself. (in season of course)
Great news! Maybe I can get a case of lobsters this year, instead of crabs.
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