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!

Crivens...that thing looks nearly big enough to carry away small children and their dogs.

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.

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.

Chere! 'dat dem one bit crawfish yeah!

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.

Re: big bugs
 

The colonists frequently lied about the bounty here in order to get more people to come help settle such a hard terrain.

But I do believe that large lobsters were more common then.

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 :vomit:

Re: Pass the Butter
 

Hell, if people can eat those annoying cicadas, then anything's possible:
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...cicada+recipes

Yuk! :vomit:

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.

A 56# lobster? Geez...it would have been the size of medium dog!

The claw was the size of my head.

and if you put salt on a rabbit's tail, they freeze.

wanna go on a Snipe hunt?

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.

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.

worked for us
 

We actually tried to hypnotize one of them. It held still but it's claws weren't in the right position to balance. It almost fell on the floor, and we didn't want to smash it before cooking.

In Maine, there is a minimum and a maximum size to catch them. The carapace can be between 3 1/4 and 5 inches. Any larger ones have to be thrown back. The idea is that if they got that big, they must be good breeding stock.

That's also why all the lobster records are from Massachusetts. Also, the big ones don't fit into the traps.

One downside of the big ones is that you have to cook them a long time. The claw meat gets tough by the time the insides are cooked.

Holy shit, that thing is enormous.

I was at Morton's steakhouse a few weeks ago, and they had 3, 4, 4.5 and 5 pound lobster. The waiter showed us a five pounder - it was the size of a small cat, and definitely much more than I could ever imagine eating (okay, that's completely untrue because I eat like a fat pig - but work with me here).

I can't imagine how big a 13 pounder is. Did someone say how long it is? The fiver was about 18-20 inches, eyes to tail.

The market price was $27 per pound. I thought about it - but went with a $70 double cut of T-bone instead. :D

In a way you'd figure lobsters can reach the gargantuan category because crab do the same and they're basically in the same family, aren't they? The crabs we get around here (mideastern seaboard) can get up to palm sized...pretty big. Go to Alaska, however, and you get these things with these LEGS that could wrap around a full grown human with inches to spare.

Mmmm....crab legs....:yum:

ARgh. Now I am starving and I've only been at work for an hour. Where the hell am I supposed to get crab legs during a 30-minute lunch??!

I have no idea, but if you find out, let me know!

Looks like it's going to be a seafood night tonight.

And the lobster's favorite food is?

Lobster.;)

Someone from NZ. sent me this, as I love mudbugs.