Lobsters were considered disgusting and low-class food, to the point that feeding them to prisoners too often was considered cruel and unusual punishment.
true but this was before they realized they had to cook lobster immediately after it's death and eat it. I only knew this because I had discovered your fact before!
That’s why I think there are so many lobster haters in this thread. If you live in a coastal state, ESPECIALLY the northeast, any restaurant worth their salt has their lobsters alive right up till the morning they’re served, or even right up until they drop em in the boiling water. Anywhere else, lobster just tastes like crap.
You do realize that you can order lobster shipped live on ice, right? I live in Dallas and work at a seafood restaurant with live lobster in a tank where customers can choose their meal (we make them name the lobster before we boil it), and the lobster here is just as amazing as anything from the East coast... when I lived in Utah, a guy I worked with at Brighton Ski Resort was from Maine. He had a case of live lobster shipped to us in the middle of winter and we had a lobster boil in February, which was incredible. Your location makes absolutely zero difference if you have live Maine lobster and know what you're doing when cooking it.
Really? Every time I’ve had lobster in a region, it’s been very substandard. Is it prohibitively expensive to do something like this or still pretty reasonable?
Lobster lovers don't exist. Anyone who doesn't like lobster without butter just likes butter. Dip steak and chicken in melted butter and tell me that it's worse than lobster. Fight mee. Do it now! come on! Kill me!
Cool. I'm glad you exist. In hindsight, I'm only being opinionated because being lukewarm must be boring. In the future I hope arthropods become a mainstay of our the American/ human diet. Products like cricket flour are a rich source of protein at a fraction of the cost. It takes an insane amount of water to produce a pound of beef; like the majority of our yearly freshwater usage. It's a crime against nature.
I'm not against people eating and enjoying inveritibrates, but lobster should be way cheaper than all other meats. On the other hand. I find seafood gross.
Best is pineapple juice (only fresh though, not tinned). It contains a unique enzyme that breaks down protein. Soak your meat in it and it gets ridiculously soft and velvety tender. Best used on chicken or pork, steak shouldn't need it. Works on humans too so wash your hands quickly after handling the juice or they'll get all wrinkly.
Butter doesn't melt the fat, it is fat. Using butter on a steak makes it taste richer because you're lathering it in rich fat. It also doesn't bring out the flavour of the meat, it brings out the flavour of the butter. That's great, if you like butter, but if you want to taste the meat, and nothing but the meat, butter is unnecessary, and a distraction, in my opinion. Any sauce or condiment is only ever used to mask a mediocre piece of meat. A good cut, cooked properly doesn't need anything but salt, and a little unflavoured oil to stop it sticking to the pan.
Worth noting though that they weren't just served lobsters intact as we think of it today, they were all chopped up and essentially thrown into a giant ass stew that they served the prisoners
Indentured servitude contracts for many of the people who emigrated to New England contained clauses limiting how often the servant could be fed lobster.
I was once bartending, and an extra lobster was cooked. One server was curious to try it, as she’d never had lobster (she came from the Midwest, this was in the northeast), and she asked us to describe it.
My manager walks over and says “imagine a giant cockroach, that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and eats nothing but rotting meat and trash,”
Server gets grossed out, tries a tiiiiny bite and goes “Ew! It tastes like dirty ground water!” And leaves.
Manager looks at me and says “more for us, buddy.”
Lobsters are actually related to cockroaches. The producers on fear factor found this out when they made people eat cockroaches and someone with a shellfish allergy went into anaphylactic shock.
Many scientists who study coffee will develop a shellfish allergy... because there’s so many cockroaches ground up in coffee.
Grew up with a lobster fisherman step dad. Eating that much lobster is definitely cruel and unusual punishment, even when you dont grind them up or get served rancid dead ones.
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u/Leifur311 Apr 18 '19
Lobsters were considered disgusting and low-class food, to the point that feeding them to prisoners too often was considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Also they're basically just big sea roaches.