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Originally Posted by bluecuracao
glatt, do you have "lobster" in quotes because the tails are not real lobster parts?
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If you go to a restaurant and order only a lobster tail, you are getting the tail from a Caribbean spiny lobster. It is pretty much flavorless compared the the meat from a Maine lobster (which lives from Massachusetts to maritime Canada.)
I've never seen anyone offer a Maine lobster tail for sale. Those lobsters are sold whole, because there is so much meat in the claws and arms as well as the tail. The Caribbean spiny lobster only has meat in the tail part. I've only seen the spiny lobster tail offered for sale frozen in a store or cooked (from frozen) in a restaurant. The Maine lobster is usually sold alive in stores.
See the Caribbean spiny lobster (top picture) and Maine lobster (bottom picture.)