Those of us in Eastern New England are accustomed to being served lobsters that were swimming in the Atlantic a few hours earlier.When I was a kid lobster was very cheap and plentiful and I clearly recall the people across the street from us,who were Catholic,would literally have lobsters crawling on their kitchen floor on Friday afternoons...those lobsters destined for pots of boiling water thanks to the Catholic teaching of "no meat on Fridays".
Catholics don’t consider lobsters as meat?
Wow, they really need a new Pope to straighten things out!
I’m an Old Testament guy, but disagree about the part where it says don’t eat lobster.
South Shore native here. We used to have “lobsta” every couple of weeks. My dad was a lobsterman for several years before I was born. My uncle was one for 50+ years(both worked it alone) so we got a good deal from a lobsterman up the road.
My dad could make a lobster do a hand stand. You rub them on the back and it kind of paralyzes them and then you can pose them however you want. And yes, that was done on the kitchen floor LOL.
We all ended up in FL and one Christmas, I showed up to the family gathering with about 20 live lobsters. Made everyone’s day, especially my mom. She could really dig in deep. Used to eat the eggs and that green stuff(tomalley). With all the snowbirds and retirees, there are trucks coming down I-95 daily with live lobster.
Now I’m in MO and there’s not much for seafood out here and it’s all frozen. I do snow crab every once in a while. Like every couple years. That’s all I can afford since all four of us like it.
“Those of us in Eastern New England are accustomed to being served lobsters that were swimming in the Atlantic a few hours earlier.”
This sentence belongs in the northeast.