BS: Lobster and beer

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 09:42 PM

""And the lumber industry has made short work of the wild salmon here.""

What is happening in or near rivers and coastal areas contributes.But, what leading scientists say is the main problem with Atlantic salmon is poor survival during their sea phase. Meaning, enough salmon are leaving the many rivers to repopulate the species. But, not enough return to rivers to spawn as adults.

This is not to say that some land or coastal practices, such as chemicals used to control sea lice, or agricultural or forest spraying has not limited their ability to survive log-term or to produce fit offsprings. There is surely enough and a range of chemicals used to make some difference.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 09:17 PM

The Only Atlantic Salmon available was farmed in Chile. Alaskan ain't buying local. But it is buying American. Also got some Icelandic codfish.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 07:18 PM

BTW... eat up the Pacific salmon while you can. And anything else in the pacific before it is inedible or non-existant. The Japan nuclear disaster may become the Pacific Ocean disaster... the long term disaster could affect all oceans. It ain't over yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 06:47 PM

The seas are being depleted of fish, destroying a link in the food chain. Farmed fish are the necessary solution.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 06:46 PM

Alaskan salmon? Is a Newf allowed to eat that? >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 06:36 PM

For Christmas, Carol got me 2.5 lbs ov Alaska Sockeye. 23.99 at Sam's Club.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 06:31 PM

Indeed, the rise of the price of lobster is astonishing. A bottom feeder that was once drag netted from near shore by waders to be dumped on farm fields to grow spuds and corn and whatever.

But, I love the taste.

As for farmed salmon, it's better than no salmon. And the lumber industry has made short work of the wild salmon here.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 05:27 PM

I don't eat farmed salmon either.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 05:26 PM

One may be shocked if you knew what many domestically produced products are fed (do you really know what the farmed salmon on your plate ate on it's way to your plate?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 05:23 PM

""Are those of you who do like lobsters are aware that they are bottom feeding scavengers""?

So are politicians, lawyers, salesmen and many other bottom living fish, like crab, cod, haddock, halibut. Something, or something, has to do it.

Marine mollusks like scallops, clams, mussles, oysters just filter out the smaller pieces of crap that you dont see (even sewage, if it's present) out of the water. Is it really that much different?

Lobster, while cheaper this year, is indeed expensive, especially if they are shipped far, and have a few handlers who get their share of your money offering. And, consider you only get roughly 25 percent meat out of your live purchase. At least with scallops, all you buy is edible protien.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 03:18 PM

I don't dislike lobster, I just like pretty much every other source of protein cheaper than lobster better. Cheese, fin fish, tofu, beans, red meat, white meat, gray meat (pork), mollusks, crab, shrimp.

Are those of you who do like lobsters are aware that they are bottom feeding scavengers? I have seen them in a fathom or two of water feeding on decaying fish. Have you?

Funny though, I like crab OK and they do the same think. But I have not seen them do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 02:36 PM

I am quite serious, even though childish.

Even a small brawmp upon rolling over in the night cannot be put out by waving the blankets furiuosly.

Hmmm I wonder if a lobster roll with broccoli and harvarti would... ewww... I just grossed myself out.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 01:30 PM

They don't mix.

But, dairy and lobsters do, in a good Lobster Thermidor (over bread or toast). Yummy

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Will Fly
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:32 AM

Just add some champagne to the Guinness. Black Velvet anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Big Mick
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:29 AM

Lobster and Guinness ........ Now these people know how to live!!!!! Time for a trip downeast.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:08 AM

Thirty-one years, by the way.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:08 AM

Any seafood -- but lobster is especially good -- with stout. Curmudgeon and I discovered this while eating, I think, a birthday lobster without champagne. Guinness is good, but any decent stout works its magic. The flavors complement and enhance each other.

I've been hungry for lobster (well, I'm usually hungry for lobster!) lately, but our repast for our "other anniversary" (double anniversary of when Tom and I met at a Fishtraks Christmas party and night a year later when, while celebrating having known each other for a year, we decided to get married and started planning our wedding for the following June) tonight doesn't include any...yet.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 09:16 AM

So we are all agreed on beer? Lobster optional?

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Dec 11 - 03:25 AM

Lobster...ewww! Kendall can have mine. But I'll drink the beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 11:57 PM

Moose juice is almost as bad as Nastygansett.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 10:47 PM

When I saw the thread title I knew it was from gnu. I knew gnu I knew!
In any case you are right but the beer should be Keiths or Moosehead and I fear that may be a chasm between us if you still swill that Bud! :-}

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 10:22 PM

Forget the lobster...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 10:20 PM

I have had crabs & beer... so I suppose lobster would be good, but I am not where lobster is very affordable.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 10:11 PM

But lobster isn't so bad, with ginger and coconut milk!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 09:58 PM

Oh my. I hadn't considered that. And I won't.

Subject: RE: BS: Lobster and beer
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 09:55 PM

Better than Lobster and milk.

Subject: BS: Lobster and beer
From: gnu
Date: 14 Dec 11 - 09:52 PM

Broccoli... beans with maple syrup and sausages... buritos (spg?)... I don't care.

Lobster and beer. Hands down... well, waving. George Carlin never had lobster and beer, apparently.

I would challenge Spaw on this one.

Yes, it is a pathetic and childish thread. I am bored. Go post somewhere else.