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I love lobster. I'm not unusual in this and many others do as well, but not everyone. I think that it is a love/hate food and you immediately know which side of the fence you are on. Last month I was in mid-coast Maine on vacation. I love the area, visit there several times a year, and am planning on moving there in the next few years. Maine is known for lobster, so of course that's what we had to have for dinner.
I went to my favorite lobster purveyor, Jeff of the Oyster River Lobster Company, to pick up a half dozen or so for dinner for me and my guest. As I was grubbing around in the tank helping myself to the big bugs I saw a flash of brilliant blue. Jeff's son, Josh, ran over to help me out and brought out a living jewel, Mr. Blu Genes (see pic). It was an unusual and very rare blue lobster that they were keeping as a mascot. Blue lobsters are found only once in a blue moon, actually the odds are even greater than that. Only one in 3-4 million lobsters are blue, they are even more rare than calico lobsters, but not as rare as a live red/orange lobster, the albino, yellow or the elusive two-tone lobster. My buddy and I played around with the cute little guy for awhile, posing and taking pics, before returning him to his tank.
Then we headed back home with his cousins for a feast of steamed, grilled, caked and chowdered crustaceans to carry us over for a day or two. If you would like to check out some more cool lobster pics you can always go to the U of Maine lobster of the month page for more tasty looking, interesting and weird, deep sea creepy crawlies.
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11-03-2006 @6:37AM Liz said... I was vacationing in Maine last summer and I remember when they found the two-tone lobster in Bar Harbor, not too far from me. The Mid-coast must be a gold mine for these things, LOL!
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11-03-2006 @6:41AM Brenda said... Ii hope they don't cook this rare lobster. I hope they let it go back to the ocean where it belongs.
It's actually now in an aquarium in Maine with some other rare colored lobsters. JMF
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11-03-2006 @6:55AM Ray said... I'm not against animals eating other animals. But must we scald them to death to enjoy them? It takes them as long as 15 minutes to die. Is this amusing?
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11-03-2006 @7:28AM Louise said... Lobsters actually scream when they are put into a big pot of boiling water or steam. It is cruel and torturous to kill them this way. It is also cruel to rip off their tails and throw them back into the water, because they do not die for a while. I have stopped eating lobster because of the inhumane treatment of this form of life. There should be some type of rules/law governing their treatment.
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11-03-2006 @8:24AM Jerry said... Pass the butter !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! mmmmmmmmm
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11-03-2006 @7:26AM Jennifer said... It is so neat to see a blue lobster...! I sure someone will enjoy eating it...! How could you want to kill something in such a way just to eat it? I never have and never will eat lobster, crab etc.
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11-03-2006 @6:59PM Jason said... I love to eat Lobster....mmmmm...it is soo good and I don't care about how long it takes to cook them or for them to die. Who cares?
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11-03-2006 @7:33AM Richard Bowie said... I have approximately 45 acres of woodland for sale along the Cape Neddick River in the Town of York, ME.
If you are serious about moving to Maine perhaps you are interested. Land is about a 15 minute walk from the beach. The history of this land goes back with my family over 200 years. Asking price $700K.
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11-03-2006 @7:32AM tbone said... I kinda think it is rather amusing to say the least
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11-03-2006 @7:41AM tbone said... I kinda think it is rather amusing to say the least since i do work at "RED Lobster"
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11-03-2006 @7:38AM Thadeus McGovern said... Lobster, crab, scallops, clams. It's all good and for those that object to eating seafood, might i suggest that they gather up what's left of their sack of S**T HUMANITY and move back into the forest with whats left of the hippies and other 60's leftovers. Now pass the butter and lemon juice.
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11-03-2006 @7:50AM James Ellis said... I am a member of "PETA". Why is so many people worried about the little lobster? Please join "PETA" today to take a firm stand against animal cruelty. Don't let animals suffer for human enjoyment. Kill them quick and enjoy. "PETA" People Eating Tasty Animals!!!
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11-03-2006 @7:58AM Will said... Its a bug. It has the brain capacity of a cockroach. But if you are concerned about them suffering pain then take a knife and drive it through their skull and brain. Its quick and they wont fell anything when you cook them.
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11-03-2006 @7:58AM Kev J said... Hey Ray post#2 Its the food chain! You need to wake up and realize your a human and its natural to eat especially the good stuff, unless ur a plant eater only. Seafood is acually very good for you, Wake Up Ron...
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11-03-2006 @7:59AM Lin said... Don't you have to kill everything in order to eat it? I'm sure I don't eat a steak while the darned cow is alive!
The Take home chef shows you how to prepare a lobster. You rub his temples and put him to sleep then put him in the freezer, then boil him. He's to incoherent to scream and is boiled in a matter of minutes.
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11-03-2006 @7:59AM becky cadice said... lobster is wonderful. when i lived in isreal the israelies do not believe in eating lobster they think its "dirty".
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11-03-2006 @8:07AM Alex said... The thing about lobsters screaming has actually been debunked as a myth. It is gas escaping from the lobster. In order to scream, you need vocal cords, and lobsters are, apparently, lacking in this area.
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11-03-2006 @8:09AM jessica said... ok i dont eat seafood but its a lobster people who cares how it dies! now it would be bad if we did this to dogs or some other animal but lobsters are lobsters i mean come on not everything in life is fair and some things are painful but ya no what o well by the way that lobster is pretty cool
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11-03-2006 @8:30AM Lori said... Alaskan Crab Legs are much better than lobster
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11-03-2006 @8:30AM keith said... Red,blue yellow,green,don't matter.Give me the damn thing and it will be on my plate in 30 mins. or less.
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