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07-01-2004, 10:50 AM | #1 |
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Pass the butter!
It may not be blue but it is kind of unique in that it wieghs in at 13 pounds! I snapped this picture at Abbotts Lobsters in the Rough in Noank CT. One of the employees saw me taking pictures of some old buoys outside the place and asked if I wanted a really good picture. A minute later he came out the back door carrying this monster. We figured that it would cost you about $100 to dine on this big guy, but that comes with a bag of chips!
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07-01-2004, 12:53 PM | #2 |
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Crivens...that thing looks nearly big enough to carry away small children and their dogs.
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07-01-2004, 12:57 PM | #3 |
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Biggest I've eaten was a 2.25 pound lobster. It was really chewy and tough. I don't know if it's because it took longer to cook, or because it was older.
In the future, if I ever want to pig out on lobster, I will eat two small tender ones. It will taste better, and be cheaper. But mostly, a typical 1.25 pound lobster is really just the right size. |
07-01-2004, 12:59 PM | #4 |
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Looing at that picture, I wonder how the lobster got into the trap in the first place. It looks too big to fit into the entrance hole of most lobster traps I've seen. Must have been a tight squeeze.
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07-01-2004, 01:00 PM | #5 |
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Chere! 'dat dem one bit crawfish yeah!
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07-01-2004, 03:42 PM | #6 |
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big bugs
Twenty some year ago I lived in Boston, and a bunch of us (17) bought some lobsters (3). Two of them were thirteen pounders, and one was a fifteen pounder. We decided against getting the 38 pounder because we only had 40 quart pots.
One of the guys was from Maine and told us how the tomalley was the best part, so he got to eat all three, and missed out on the real meat. The little side legs were the size of my fingers. If you rub a lobster on the forehead, their eyes tuck in, and they fall alseep. Then you can stand them on their nose and claws, and they fall over when they wake up. In colonial times there are records of 5 and 6 foot long lobsters. |
07-01-2004, 04:27 PM | #7 | |
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But I do believe that large lobsters were more common then. |
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07-01-2004, 06:18 PM | #8 |
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Pass the Butter
Hampor says"Big Bugs"
Thats exactly how I feel about any kind of shellfish Lobster,shrimp,crab thats what they look like to me BIG BUGS.. They crawl around eating shit and people want to eat them.. Would you throw cockroaches into a pan and add butter if they were that size |
07-01-2004, 06:30 PM | #9 | |
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Re: Pass the Butter
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http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...cicada+recipes Yuk!
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07-01-2004, 08:18 PM | #10 |
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One night we were at the 15th street Bookbinders and the next table ordered a 56 pound lobster. I was trying to figure out how they had a pot big enough for it and whether they had to have some guy with a baseball bat to keep it in.
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07-01-2004, 09:48 PM | #11 |
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A 56# lobster? Geez...it would have been the size of medium dog!
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07-01-2004, 10:40 PM | #13 | |
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wanna go on a Snipe hunt?
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07-01-2004, 11:45 PM | #14 |
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Uh, according to this article you CAN hypnotize a lobster. I've never seen it done but I have heard about it so I did a little web searching to see if it were true.
How to hypnotize a lobster Also, according to this site, the largest lobster ever caught was 37.4 pounds and 2.1 feet long.
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07-02-2004, 12:01 AM | #15 |
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FWIW
Uh, according to this article you CAN hypnotize a lobster. I've never seen it done but I have heard about it so I did a little web searching to see if it were true.
How to hypnotize a lobster Also, according to this site, the largest lobster ever caught was 37.4 pounds and 2.1 feet long.
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