# Look Jerk. Don't ever cook me a DEAD lobster again. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 9, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520 "2003-09-09T14:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/61 "2003-09-11T15:07:58Z")
In which case I apologize for “classist idiot”. I honestly thought you were going on a Marxist rant… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/62 "2003-09-11T15:58:44Z")
When it get’s closer I’ll post an organized thread. 🙂 Nice crisp night, all stars out, tiki torches, horse shoes, fire, beach, grilled lobsters steamers, clam chowder, good beer…oh yeah! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/63 "2003-09-11T17:22:30Z")
**Phlospher** , the only thing wrong with your list is that “good beer” should be first, not last. Can I come, too? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/64 "2003-09-11T17:35:06Z")
All this warm fuzziness is so un-Pit! ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/65 "2003-09-11T17:35:45Z")
Then it’s agreed: **Good beer** , “Nice crisp night, all stars out, tiki torches, horse shoes, fire, beach, grilled lobsters steamers, clam chowder, **good beer** ” ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/66 "2003-09-11T17:45:22Z")
and all the dead lobsters **karomon** can eat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/67 "2003-09-11T17:47:27Z")
How about: Good beer, nice crisp night, good beer, all stars out, good beer, tiki torches, good beer, horseshoes, good beer, fire, good beer, beach, good beer, grilled lobsters, steamers, good beer, clam chowder, good beer. That sounds better. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/68 "2003-09-11T20:01:24Z")
Good beer being: Anchor Steam? Libery Ale? Magic Hat? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/69 "2003-09-11T20:19:05Z")
Corona with a hunk of lime, Sam Adams, McHenry (local microbrew) or Woodchuck Ciders. Icy cold, of course. ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/70 "2003-09-11T20:33:38Z")
Looking at the most recent **BiblioCat** post, I think there’s room for all of them plus some. Almost all beer is good- drink it with shellfish and you’ve got a winning combination. (Although have you tried Blue Moon- I’ve been loving that stuff lately) ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/71 "2003-09-11T21:04:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dung Beetle \* > \*\*Popcorn’s like it… \*\* In all fairness, the “popcorn lobster” my landlord tasted was prepared poorly. It had a slightly rubbery texture that suggested it had been cooked, frozen solid, then recooked. Definitely not freshly kill-cooked. The flavour had been cooked right out of it so all you had left was the texture and the taste of butter. Now I’m so very, very hungry… I know what _I’m_ eating tonight! Salmon! What? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/72 "2003-09-11T21:21:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monica \* > **Every time I see the poor things in the supermarket, with their claws restrained in those terrible rubber bands, I just want to rescue them all!** You do realize that those rubber bands are for their own protection, right? Without the rubber bands on their claws, the lobsters would attack and eat each other. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/73 "2003-09-11T21:34:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*You do realize that those rubber bands are for their own protection, right? Without the rubber bands on their claws, the lobsters would attack and eat each other. \*\* Holy Darwin-at-the-Safeway, Batman! ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/74 "2003-09-11T21:46:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adam yax \* > \*\*I guess that I’ll never understand the attraction to eating what amounts to a glorified bug that is a bottom feeding scavanger. \*\* A-men. My husband doesn’t understand this, and how I have explained it is thusly: When you grow up in bald-faced prairie, you can’t get fresh, good seafood. So you don’t develop the taste for the bugs, and then people look at you like you have a third arm growing out of your forehead when you move to, oh, say, the Chesapeake Bay. :rolleyes: Too much work for too little reward. Can’t get into the blue crabs - besides which, everything is covered in Old Bay, and that’s all I taste. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/75 "2003-09-11T22:09:55Z")
I work in a seafood restaurant. I remember opening last year. I had never worked around seafood before and I am not a lover of it. I thought my friends were giving me a hard way to go when they were saying “Yeah were going to have a lobster tank and you got to get them out for the guest and take them to the kitchen”. I found out real quick they weren’t joking. I absolutely hate going to the tank to take a lobster to his death. My co-workers know how I feel. And they don’t help any when one of them grabs one up and starts talking for the lobster “No, please don’t take me to the kitchen, Please, don’t pick me, don’t do it ,don’t let them do it, please I don’t want to die, not today, not anyday”. Argh. Maybe I need to get a different job. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/76 "2003-09-12T00:35:48Z")
I can’t believe I read through this whole thread the first time and didn’t catch that you were talking about Abbott’s. ABBOTT’S!!! My absolutely fav restaurant in the wide world! The best lobster ever! Land of lobster rolls that consist of nothing but hot buttered lobster on a bun! [sub]Oh, I need to contrive a reason to visit my Connecticut-dwelling aunt…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/77 "2003-09-12T01:34:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > \*\*Too much work for too little reward. Can’t get into the blue crabs - besides which, everything is covered in Old Bay, and that’s all I taste. \*\* If you’re eating steamed blue crabs, and all you can taste is Old Bay, they haven’t been prepared properly. Just a little goes a loooong way. They should taste like crabs, not Old Bay. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/78 "2003-09-12T02:35:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phlosphr \* > \*\ ***Paperbackwriter** - you know, sometimes I forget you live in CT and then you come out with something like, “I bet you went to Abbotts” and I nearly freak out. > > Thank you for the nice freak-out this evening 🙂 > > Actually we were at Abbotts, they are only open for a few more weeks and we needed to be there without the crowds. Maybe a Connecticut Dopefest is in order. 🙂 \*\* If it makes you feel any better, **Phlosphr** , I got the same freak-out. My wife and I have been going to Abbott’s since our first date in 1992. She’s been reminding me weekly that we haven’t gone yet this summer. (We used to live in Groton, but are now a bit farther away.) Maybe we’ll go this weekend! (And **arisu** is exactly right. Their lobster rolls are fantastic. None of that crappy, cold mayo-covered rubbery lobster there–an Abbott’s lobster roll is nothing but lobster, roll, and butter.) ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/79 "2003-09-12T12:24:13Z")
**Smoke** - blue moon belgian white is very good. Don’t forget Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin is coming out pretty soon! It’s good to see a bunch of Connecticut dopers out there! Maybe a fest really is in order soon. This semester is gearing up very quickly and I’m bombarded with students this semester…classes are all full! let’s play it by ear! ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520/80 "2003-09-12T13:34:03Z")
I’m looking forward to trying the Pumpkin. So, this sounds great- playing it by ear is fine, let me know when the time comes what I can do. (What a great excuse to take a little trip down from Mass.) -j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-jerk-dont-ever-cook-me-a-dead-lobster-again/200520.md?page=5)