# Is it always Lobsterfest at Red Lobster? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718 "2020-02-10T07:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/21 "2020-02-11T04:35:37Z")
If there’s a bargain to be had you can bet **ol’beck** missed it. Except…Sonic corndogs. I have a homing instinct for them (:)) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/22 "2020-02-11T06:25:39Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > Arby’s is constantly having near daily “specials” of 3 for $5 on their original roast beef sandwiches, so it’s shocking the one day I go in without a special going on and I find out the MSRP for a single roast beef sandwich is $4. Cows must have been out of season. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/23 "2020-02-11T13:00:54Z")
The Boston Market down the street from my house has had a giant banner across the front of the building reading “PRIME RIB LIMITED TIME ONLY.” That same banner has been up for _years_. I suspect it’s covering a hole in the roof or something like that, but I can’t prove it. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/24 "2020-02-11T14:28:02Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > The Boston Market down the street from my house has had a giant banner across the front of the building reading “PRIME RIB LIMITED TIME ONLY.” That same banner has been up for _years_. I suspect it’s covering a hole in the roof or something like that, but I can’t prove it. They’re still trying to sell the last piece. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/25 "2020-02-11T14:55:15Z")
I used to look forward every year to watching “How the Clench Stole Lobsterfest.” But now TBS plays it so often I just can’t be bothered. But it’s still fun to remember the Clench contemplating all the biscuits down in Cheddartown putting out the special menus and fishing the one dead lobster out of the tank before the 5 PM Seniors Dinner Special crowd shows up. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/26 "2020-02-11T16:24:34Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > It turns out, the Lobsterfest was inside us all along. The true Lobsterfest was the friends we made along the way. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/27 "2020-02-11T16:29:17Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > The true Lobsterfest was the friends we made along the way. Friends that, as it turned out, were delicious with lemon and melted butter. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/28 "2020-02-11T18:24:07Z")
Got to laugh every time one of their commercials shows up on the boob tube–nearest location is 200+ miles and 2 states to the south west… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/29 "2020-02-14T12:35:38Z")
And on a similar note… the other night I saw a Ford “Truck Month” ad, and said to my wife “Hey, it’s Truck Month again!” I think between Ford, Chevy/GMC, Dodge/Ram and Toyota, it’s _always_ Truck Month. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/30 "2020-02-14T17:27:52Z")
And yet every time I try to celebrate Hump Day, I end up in a meeting with HR. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718/31 "2020-02-14T20:31:55Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > The Boston Market down the street from my house has had a giant banner across the front of the building reading “PRIME RIB LIMITED TIME ONLY.” That same banner has been up for _years_. I suspect it’s covering a hole in the roof or something like that, but I can’t prove it. There was a place near my work that had a giant GRAND OPENING SALE banner on it for the entirety of the 5 years it was open. Literally the day they took it down was the day it went out of business. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-always-lobsterfest-at-red-lobster/847718.md?page=1)