Maine Lobster vs. Canadian Lobster

[D_Odds]

@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.

[Tom_Scud]

@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:

@Wikipedia. It must be true

… lobsters as we know them today 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…

[aruvqan]

@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.

[tdn]

@D_Odds

potatoes don’t swim like sea creatures

Another childhood belief crushed.

[Chimera]

@Teufelblitz

Also, Ambulatory Potato seems like it would be a great put down.

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