# Most humane way of cooking lobster?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 15, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-humane-way-of-cooking-lobster/331200 "2005-11-15T19:23:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-humane-way-of-cooking-lobster/331200/41 "2005-11-19T16:31:17Z")

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> [@JustAnotherGeek](#):
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> Yup; it’s in the thorax, btw. Tamale. Nope. Not me, but some people consider it a delicacy.
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> Ya really want to know what Tamale is? (Spoiler box for the squeemish)
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> organs, like liver, spleen, etc. if you’re lucky, and you like that sort of thing, eggs.  
> In case you were wondering, my dad took _a lot_ of comparative anatomy in his college years.

Nitpick: it’s pronounced like tamale, but it’s spelled [tomalley.](http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/entry?id=4960)

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**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-humane-way-of-cooking-lobster/331200/42 "2005-11-19T21:09:51Z")

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> [@Myron Van Horowitzski](#):
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> Nitpick: it’s pronounced like tamale, but it’s spelled tomalley.

Nah. It’s pronounced “ick.” I just can’t spel. 😃

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-humane-way-of-cooking-lobster/331200/43 "2005-11-20T21:22:35Z")

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> [@Snickers](#):
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> Hee. In Australia, they’re sold on restaurant menus as bugs. Not lobsters - you want a lobster in Australia, you order a bug. I hear the Moreton Bay Bugs are very good indeed.

They’ve been called \*lobsters \* on the menus in all of the restaurants that I’ve been to recently.

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