Sunday, November 12, 2023

When I get a yen for a lobster, this is the place

 


16 comments:

  1. I never could afford food like that. I think that I had one lobster in my 74 year life.

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    1. Thats funny because way back when it was food for the poors. Look it up. It was literally so abundant and considered bottom level food.

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    2. Yup. In the 1930's Maine, inmates were fed lobsters so they can crush the shells to used as a layer when they build roads.

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    3. I kid you not. In Hawaii, we were so poor that we at lobster and crab and shrimp and fish. (that we caught ourselves)

      From other foods, we traded what we caught with ranchers for dairy, eggs, veggies and such.

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  2. In Maine lobster is cheaper than beef.

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  3. There's a couple of outfits in Portland that'll ship the lobster to you, live. In fact, they'll ship the lobster and steamers and clam chowder and anything else you want for your clambake. I've used them before, it's overnight on dry ice, and everything got here fine. Treated my neighbors to an old-fashioned New England clam bake!

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    1. The seafood industry is weird. For a time I worked for a friend who built a seafood shopping business on central coast of California.
      We'd ship Cherrystone clams to Washington state (where they are from). We'd ship Salmon to Monterey, CA restaurants that was landed at Monterey.
      We'd ship Maine lobster to Maine restaurants.

      Not just shipping on paper, the actual product.
      Say, a lobster landed at Portland, ME then shipped to CA then sold to a restaurant in Portland, ME. This was typical, every day.

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  4. I spent a summer at a friends in Maine & discovered that lobster from the grocery store (Hannaford) was one heck of a deal, you'd pick it out, they'd steam it while you finished shopping and you were on your way.
    Turned out I liked lobster.

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  5. We infrequently order lobster rolls from ME. Try Maine Lobster Now at Mainelobsternow.com. Free shipping for orders >$150. Also if you like Chesapeake Bay blue crab, check jumbo lump crabmeat at lintonseafood.com. Alternatively check Goldbelly.com. Also, if you enjoy bison, see WildIdeabuffalo.com. Caveat emptor.

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    1. When I lived in the D.C. area, I learned that the supply of actual Chesapeake Bay blue crab was too limited to meet he demand. As a result, they shipped in a lot of crab from coastal Texas. If you do get a Maryland crab house that serves only locally caught crabs, you are lucky.

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    2. In season, you can get lobster rolls at McDonald's near Portland.

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  6. There is a family restaurant that has two family lobster boats that supply it in Kittery Maine. They ship most of their lobster. My only gripe is that all of New England uses little to no spices in their seafood. My daughter lives in Newmarket NH and is about 20 miles away. When the lobster is running it is cheap as ground beef.

    I grew up 45 miles from the GA coast and I know how to fry coastal low country fried shrimp. I have cut up a lobster tail in 1"x3" pieces where I fried them low country shrimp style and they were wonderful. A New England Lobster roll? I would rather have a New Orleans Shrimp Po'boy. The spices bring out the sea foods taste.

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  7. I'll try when in Portland. HaHaHa JOKE. I'm never going to that God forsaken leftist s**t**le.

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  8. Soviet Socialist Republic of Portland (east) - what's not to like?

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  9. Portland, Maine is the People's Democratic Republic. Portland, Oregon is the Soviet Socialist Republic.

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