# Maine Lobster vs. Canadian Lobster **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557 "2011-09-07T23:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557/21 "2011-09-08T18:57:39Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Plus, this is in New York City - he was probably feeding off the Fox network attitude of “you don’t want to be selling no evil Canadian products to New Yorkers and True Americans, now do you?” :rolleyes: Born and bred NYCians think anything north of Westchester County is Canada, including that city that pretends to be our state capital. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557/22 "2011-09-08T19:52:08Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Are the waters off of the coast of Maine where they pull the lobsters be that much different than the waters off of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia? Does a Canadian lobster have a different taste or texture than a Maine lobster? Are there perhaps different subspecies? John Hodgman explains: [QUOTE=Wikipedia. It must be true, it’s in Wikipedia!] [… lobsters as we know them today](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Areas_of_My_Expertise#The_Furry_Lobster) were not introduced to Maine until the turn of the century, after Theodore Roosevelt built a secret canal from lobster-ridden New York City to the coast of Maine. Before that time, writes Hodgman, an entirely different animal - particularly “a kind of sea otter” - was known in Maine as the “lobster” (the photo … at right is included with the caption “Figure 11: The Lobster”). The new lobster threatened the existence of the “Old Lobster,” the last of which died in 1980, in the kitchen of a Furry Old Lobster restaurant… [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557/23 "2011-09-08T20:04:08Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > I’m pretty sure that most lobster fishing is done by small independent boats. The processing on the other hand is pretty much dominated by a few large corporations who set the prices for the entire Atlantic Canada region. > > Here in Prince Edward Island it’s common for these small fishermen to get a peddler’s license and sell live lobster in front of gas stations or corner stores for $5/lb. When I was did up a feed of lobster for ten people this summer I drove to the wharf and watched the boat come in. Now that’s fresh lobster! Back when I lived in Ocean View section of Norfolk VA, and was broke all the time [barely making minimum wage as a security guard] I used to take a package of chicken backs, a huge cooler and a set of tidewater nets, pay a buck to get onto the lynnhaven pier, bait and toss the nets, and set a kitchen timer for 45 minutes. I would get up, pull in the nets, drop the crabs into the cooler and lather, rinse and repeat for about 6 or 7 hours, then I would take my catch, trade everything except for a dozen or so crabs to a local fish market for other stuff [shrimp, scallops, cod fillets, stuff I wanted] and head home. I would get together with a few friends, who would bring stuff to drink, hushpuppy makings, salt potato makings, cobs of corn and so forth. We would do up a seafood boil and all eat. Costs us an average of less than $2 a person to feed that evening and have leftovers enough for everybody to have a second meal. And I got my sleep for the day in =) Sometimes I would just make up a batch of chowder for myself, and live off of it for the rest of the week. All depended on what was happening. I don’t care where the bug is fished up, I go for the way it looks and fights back more than price. I dont care if it is cheaper, I want good fighty bug. Means it is healthy. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557/24 "2011-09-08T20:12:51Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > potatoes don’t swim like sea creatures Another childhood belief crushed. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557/25 "2011-09-08T21:26:33Z")
> [@Teufelblitz](#): > > Also, Ambulatory Potato seems like it would be a great put down. Band name! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maine-lobster-vs-canadian-lobster/595557.md?page=1)