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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 @1:17PM Elle Fujimotoq 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? "
No one finds this amusing, but how else would you like them to have to die? And since when were humans considered 'animals'?
Just don't think about it.. Heh.
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11-03-2006 @1:21PM Lonnie said... Holy Cow....what a bunch of moronic individuals on here. The ones that whine about murdering animals for food. What the hell do you eat? Everything that anyone eats comes from some life form or other. God created life for all to survive. As far as the Almighty Jerks that work for "PETA" Get a Real JOB!!! All the people that are complaining on here. Get a Life! Have fun!!! Kill an Animal!!! Kill an Insect!!! Heck, Kill yourself if you want! But have a ball while doing so!!!
GO PETA!!! PEOPLE EATING TASTY ANIMALS!!!
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11-03-2006 @1:41PM Tom said... Theres room for all Gods' creatures..........RIGHT NEXT TO THE MASHED POTATOES!!!!
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11-03-2006 @1:46PM SDF said... To those of you that are fussing about the way they kill a lobster, have you heard how they kill cattle or pork, or chickens. I am sure you have and I am sure you enjoy eating burgers, and sausage, and fried chicken. So come on Unless you want to eat them alive quit griping about it. Animals were put on this earth for us to eat. People really crack me up some times.
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11-03-2006 @1:42PM meghan said... i think that its dumb that all these PETA people are freaking out about lobsters on this blog. ALL THE GUY IS DOING IS SAYING HOW HE THOUGHT THE BLUE LOBSTER WAS INTERESTING! NOT THAT HE WANTED TO GO steam it and let it die, taking up to 15 minutes... come on.. go back to your PETA site and complain there.
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11-03-2006 @1:47PM marty said... lobsters are disgusting -- they are like giant insects. eat vegetables -- they're more pure and not vile.
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11-03-2006 @1:50PM Susan said... People----the lobster MUST be cooked live because if you don't toxins will be released if it was dead prior to cooking. also for all you non meat eaters have you ever thought you are killing all those vegtables you're eating, they are living things as well, they need oxygen to live like any other being. Think about that when you are hugging your next tree.
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11-03-2006 @1:51PM Justin said... I would eat the lobsters alive if they tasted better that way, and i doubt they scream, they probably blow bubbles and think about nothing but a really overly hot bath. HAHA!!
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11-03-2006 @1:50PM Shuntega King said... darnnnn.....i'm allergic!!
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11-03-2006 @1:52PM bernard vrod said... blue lobster is not rare we have plenty of them in brittany west coast of france they all blue
Those are a different type of lobster, not the Maine Lobster, also called the American Lobster or Northern lobster; Homarus Americanus? JMF
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11-03-2006 @1:59PM john collins said... WARNING God loves lobsters. He calls them, "My clawed friends". Killing a lobster could bring you very bad luck.
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11-03-2006 @2:01PM Janis said... I say everyone who enjoys eating these crustaceans will get exactly what they deserve in the long term, irregardless of how the deed is done and whose hand slayed the beast. Clearly you are what you eat and crustaceans are the garbage collectors of the sea. Same as eating a buzzard in some states... doesn't matter if they are blue. ; )
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11-03-2006 @2:05PM Melanie said... I think this rare blue lobster should be left alone because of it's uniqueness. HOWEVER!!! All the other lobsters are free game. As well as shrimp and crabs and all the other stuff in the sea GOD put here for HUMANS. Certain people need to step down from their self-made thrones and realize that some animals were put here on earth for humans. That doesnt mean they should be treated badly or abused, I love animals. BUT let face crustations are the cockroaches of the ocean!
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11-03-2006 @2:05PM cbcircustim said... My girl friend brought home a 5 pound live lobster and sent be out to got wine and butter. Didn't worl out well , lobster couldn't cold stem glass in claw with out spilling wine abd he smeared the butter all over the table cloth
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11-03-2006 @2:09PM tia said... As a native of Maine, I have been around lobster my whole life...and I'm here to dispel some of your misconceptions. First of all, it doesn't hurt the lobsters to cook them and they don't scream. That sound you hear that sounds like screaming is just steam escaping from within their shell. Also, it doesn't take 15 minutes to "kill" lobsters. Lobsters are dead within the first minute of being boiled, and the whole process takes about 8-10 minutes. Now I'm hungry for some seafood.
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11-03-2006 @2:15PM Ann Conley said... This rare blue lobster should have been released!!
In most instances when kept in a tank....they will die! After watching these cruel events in restaurants I bought several live ones and released them into the ocean. Killing them in boiling water is like burning humans in fires. I see nothing amusing when stupid people say stupid remarks. I only see that there are many uneducated people who need to learn some respect for nature and for others. These creatures are headed for extinction in the next 40 years according to the news (November 3, 2006)on tv.
Less and less fish, crab, oysters and clams are being
harvested.
"Fools names, and fools faces are always seen in public places" Not to mention...one is judged according to his works in life, and things come back and haunt them....it's just a matter of time!
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11-03-2006 @2:14PM rudy said... If you drop a lobster in a pot of boiling it makes the tough to eat. Real New Englanders put them in a pot with only a 1 inch of salty water and then turn the heat on as the water becomes steam the lobsters go to sleep and the meat stays sweet. Enjoy with butter and corn on the cobb.
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11-03-2006 @2:21PM jody said... Get me some melted butter and a bib daddy wants blue lobster
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11-03-2006 @2:18PM Gil Nado said... Lobster is a cold blooded creature and feels NO pain.When boiled or steamed he dies instantly. And the meat is delicious. For those who don't know, lobster is a scavenger of the ocean floor. He eats everything dead...and I mean EVERYTHING. Gil
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11-03-2006 @2:23PM joe smith said... I bring home live lobster to cook all the time, I put tem in the sink in cold water to revive them and let my 170lb.English Mastiff watch them in the sink then I put e on the floor to let them play together 170lb dog is afraid of them it's too funny, in the mean time I boil water in a big pot, when the water is boiling and steaming you put the Lobster in head first and they don't suffer, pour a glass of wine and enjoy.
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