BS: Lobster and beer

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Joe_F
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:14 PM

Worst of all --
The Lobster

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:13 PM

not a statue

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:00 PM

""Shediac Bay shellfish and lobster are far more tastey than any others""

LOL. Won't fall for that one, gnu. In every place where they are caught they say the same thing, that their's taste best becauise of- yada yada.

While palates differ. While I like them all, IMO, the colder the water,the better the lobsters taste and lobsters caught in the warm summer months are of a lower quality (again, IMO). BTW, lobsters cross borders, and many of those that are branded Maine lobsters are often caught in Canada.

However, I am willing to do a taste test, if the different places will supply me with free lobsters for the taste test. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 07:11 PM

Cruel, but tastey.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 07:04 PM

I suppose , if you eat one, its not like you're stopping it from going to university. nevertheless - they do seem very happy, in a lobstery sort of way, there on the sea floor. I think its a bit cruel - eating them.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 04:28 PM

gnu-

Wow! Well, here in Maine we have to throw lobsters that size back as "breeders." Might even have to use a crane to throw that one back in.

We used to have a giant lobster trap as a tourist attraction here in Maine back in the 1950's. It was always jammed with tourists who would walk in and then were unable to find their way out. I think the town code enforcement officer had it shut down as a public nuisance.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 02:30 PM

THAT'S not a lobster. THIS is a lobster.

Note the fisherman in front of the lobster to get the scale of the lobster.

BTW... Shediac Bay shellfish and lobster are far more tastey than any others because of a parasite that inhabits their guts (learned that at uni from a biology prof). The fried clams are ta die for! (Especially if eaten at the wrong time of year.) Hmmm, maybe the worst farts are just from Shediac Bay lobster and beer?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 02:21 PM

I still think this thread should be titled 'Lobstah an' beah'

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 02:20 PM

Yah, those Caribbean lobsters really got shortchanged on claws.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 01:19 PM

I am pretty sure that Gnu is referring to the might North Atlantic lobster with two big claws and and attitude not those wimpy little Caribbean ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:08 AM

yes when they've had to fight like that for survival - it seems wrong eating them, doesn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 01:40 PM

Al et al-

Just in case you think I'm making this up, check out this video link: click for video

Pretty neat!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 01:36 PM

Big Al-

You ever see those underwater videos of the lobster congo line? Evidently, that's the way they migrate as a group, nose to tail.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 04:31 AM

I had a smart little lobster
His name was Dave
He never would go out with me
Unless I had a shave

He wore pink
(he was a lobster)
We liked the disco and a beer
But I resent the implication
That we were up to something queer.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 10:30 AM

When life is sad, aimless and drear
I phone my Lobster and we have a beer

Now some folks think, that life is their oyster
But I prefer a crustacean with which to roister

The lobsters jokes are always witty
And in a certain light, a hen lobster's pretty

The humour is earthy, but it never gets crude
Thats one thing you can trust with a lobster
The repartees swift, and their insights are shrewd
not at all like a gangster or mobster.

But one thing about Lobsters makes me despair
Their love of cheap whisky and beer
Single malts and Guinness, most lobsters refuse
They just want to get rat arsed on the cheapest of booze.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 10:00 AM

Ed T-

You're off and running!

Lobster and beer,
Oh, lobster and beer!
There's nothing so dear --
As lobster and beer.

Break open the claws,
Chomp up the meat,
With hot butter or mayo,
There's nothing so sweet!

Then grapple the body,
Twist off the tail,
Fork out the meat
And swill some more ale!

But your job's not finished;
There's the grand finale --
When you crack open the body,
And slurp up the tamale.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 08:58 PM

Soon to bed, soon to bed
Visions of maple syrup and lobsters
will dance in my head.:)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 08:56 PM

Drink a cheer to the lobster
The cleaners of the sea
Consuming all the sinkers
To grow for you and me

They snap up the tidbits
The big and the small
So green, brown and reddy
to eat heads, guts and all

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 08:38 PM

OK, not too good. But that's my contribution to the gnusome lobster and beer song:)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 08:36 PM

Lobster and beer,
Oh, lobster and beer!
There's nothing so dear --
As lobster and beer.

Not whining, and not selfish
In traps, boats or in pots
This king of the shellfish
Adorns the table tops

Lobster and beer,
Oh, lobster and beer!
There's nothing so dear --
As lobster and beer.

The pots they are a'steaming
Warm butter's on the side
Fresh rolls they are a'rolling
mayonnaise globs inside

Lobster and beer,
Oh, lobster and beer!
There's nothing so dear --
As lobster and beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 05:07 PM

Ed... Maple slurpup? Hell YEAH!

That might be dangerous in the dark hours. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 04:47 PM

Lobster and beer,
Oh, lobster and beer!
There's nothing so dear --
As lobster and beer.

That might be a goodly chorus.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 04:42 PM

I really like lobster.
And, I also like Maple Syrup.

Is there a suggestion in the muddy midst that there may be a relationship betwix the two that 'mud-in-the-catters should avoid?

Speak up, and be heard, or forever be seen as a weasel.

""Forever is until you find somthing better"".

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 01:52 PM

Rhymming slang, as in (George Sanders)

I'm sorry Hortense, I don't know what made me do it. I went dizzy came over all lobster and beer.......


Or it could be an obscure sexual practice, as in.....(Meg Jenkins)

Alright dearie! half a crown for a quick fumble - ten bob for the whole lobster and beer....

Or even (Michael Balfour)

That blokes not the full kipper, I reckon he's gorn lobster and beer...

Why don't write film scripts like that any more?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Skivee
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 01:26 PM

I would suggest that you all avoid lobster and maple syrup

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 01:08 PM

@Charley, seems like a song worth writing. Made me think of Bill Harley's non-nautical Barbie's Head Is Missing.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 12:33 PM

Good stuff, Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 11:26 AM

ChantyLass-

You nailed "See a mobster eat a lobster." Another Jon Campbell classic song.

Then there's the song Amos and I cobbled together called "The Tale of Lobster Barbie," inspired by a true newspaper story from Downeast Maine: click here for lyrics and MP3 Sample!

Sad to say, composing such ditties is how some of us squander our finite well of creativity.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 10:33 AM

Now don't that turn your truffle pig blue?

Rant to follow:

What a let down when I learned that most truffle oil is "simulated", and not made from real "dig down and dirty" French-pig-located truffles (aka underground, rich mans shrooms).

It kind of reminds me of the old "Little Red Riding Hood" joke that most of you likely heard a few years back.

Wolf said to Little Red Riding Hood, "I am goiing to huff and puff and eat you".

""Eat me, doesn't any one F@%& anymore"", replied the wise young Red Hooded girl.

Is everything simulated in today's chemical world. There's even simulated Lobster meat crap, to join with the simulated crab crap:(

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 10:20 AM

In case you were planning to use truffle oil in your lobster Mac, the inromation below may be useful:

The New York Times, May 16, 2007, "Hocus Pocus and a Beaker of Truffles," by Daniel Patterson went public with the information (which had been common knowledge in restaurant circles but was not well-known among consumers) that truffle oil is actually a chemical concoction made by mixing olive oil with various chemical compounds, such as 2,4-dithiapentane, that has been created in a laboratory which simulates the aroma and taste of white truffles.

""When purchasing truffle oil, carefully check the label and look for the words "infused with truffles" on the label. That way, you know you are getting real truffle oil, not chemically made crap"".

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 11 - 07:58 AM

""Ain't nothin worse than a lobster fart."".

Mybe yes, maybe no. I am far from worldly when it comes to fart assessment.

But, what about a Chongo fart, a Shane fart,or even a Shatner fart (he has become a bit of an old fart)? Some of those may be just too much for many to think about?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 10:19 PM

Ed... yup... but true. Ain't nothin worse than a lobster fart. Bottom feeders - bottom farts. The very bottom... the lowest. Even Spaw could not challenge lobster farts.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 09:52 PM

pathetic and childish:)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 09:29 PM

@Charley Noble: See a mobster eat a lobster sounds like Jon Campbell's Winnebacome, Winnebago.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 07:35 PM

"lobster mac and cheese" Hmmmm... that might be worse, as I mentioned above. But it's pretty hard to beat straight lobster and beer. Just something about the "purity" of the resultant... you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:35 PM

Ever try lobster mac and cheese?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:27 PM

Yeah Chanty. I was totally joking. I grew up in an area where there were, at the time, plenty of lobster being harvested. I helped my parents prepare them. I was even there to see the switch from wooden wedges to rubber bands to keep the claws closed.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: bbc
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:07 PM

Happy anniversary to Linn & Tom. You've been through a lot. Hope you can relax & enjoy! My Mainer brother-in-law always served lobster w/ corn on the cob & potato chips. I miss that!

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:03 PM

lobster wrestling

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: KHNic
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:03 PM

Forget Lobster and beer, lobster being prohibitive on this side of the pond. For guaranteed success, stick to Oysters and Guinness.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 04:26 PM

"See a mobster eat a lobster!"

Now who penned that line?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 07:27 AM

I haven't tried one yet but I bet it would go down well with scrumpy cider .........or it could just come back up again!

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 06:54 AM

A million lobster

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 12:25 AM

Perhaps you meant that as a joke, Jack, but are you a vegetarian or vegan?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 12:15 AM

Don't you hate their shrill screams as the enter the boiling pot?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Dec 11 - 12:08 AM

Did somebody say Black Velvet? I am so there, having had my first less than a week ago! And I love lobster but rarely spend the money for it. However, once a year a nearby Unitarian church sells lobster rolls as its annual fundraiser. It's a roll, a little butter, and a lot of lobster. No mayo, celery, or anything else. I buy one for lunch and one for dinner. Once once a year Mystic Seaport has Lobster Days. I bring my own tools! I used to cook lobsters but have become lazy.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:23 PM

""A lot of them are vacuumed up by the deep sea fleets in the far north"".

Likley one good reason for the declines. Look at the dismal chart at the bottom of the link. (NASCO is the internationsl At. Salmon group).

Atlantic salmon

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:12 PM

I've fed chickens corn and table scraps. I eat that myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: kendall
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:05 PM

Jack, have you ever watched chickens eat?

Reminds me of the old curmudgeon who went to a restaurant and didn't know what he wanted, so the waitress made a number of suggestions which he found fault with; Finally she said, "we have tongue on special" she said, "Hell no, I won't eat anything that came out of an animals mouth"!
She had had enough of him so she said "How about some fresh eggs"?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:05 PM

A lot of them are vacuumed up by the deep sea fleets in the far north.