# "Umm 'scuze me, but we's used to eatin' stake and lobstar. Kin we have that, pwease?" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848 "2007-07-31T18:15:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [August 1, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/121 "2007-08-01T14:18:35Z")
I stand corrected. The OP returned and confirmed, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he’s an idiot more than a troll. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/122 "2007-08-01T14:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] Kids that young shouldn’t even KNOW what lobster is. [/QUOTE] Yeah, because only spoiled rich kids would occasionally eat at _chi chi_ restaurants like Red Lobster or Long John Silver’s, or watch SpongeBob SquarePants, or go with their parents to the supermarket and see a tank full of lobsters. I’ve never eaten lobster, but I loved watching the things when I was that age. And steak? Come on. Little kids eating foie gras regularly might be spoiled, but a five-year-old who is given a bite of what’s on dad’s plate isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/123 "2007-08-01T14:33:09Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] The one good outcome of this is that it pushed me to finally made an appointment to get a vasectomy! [/QUOTE] Christmas comes early - for the world! ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/124 "2007-08-01T14:33:56Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Hell no, those taste like vagina. [/QUOTE] You don’t like vagina **lieu**? As for the rest of it, my parents were public school teachers (therefore, nowhere in the same continental land mass as “wealthy”) and _I_ certainly knew what steak and lobster were by the time I hit school. I knew I liked steak, and I’d never had lobster. This was less because lobster was expensive, and more because I grew up in rural Alaska, and lobster was _totally unavailable_ (although I did develop a deep and abiding love of king crab). Does **VCO3** not think kids watch TV? Or go to the grocery store (where both steak and lobster are generally on display, at least in most grocery stores in the continental US - Hell, sometimes I suspect the ginormous lobster tanks are as much for child entertainment purposes as sales tool. Lord knows there’s generally a few small children clustered around the one in my grocery store engrossed in watching the lobsters)? Or watch movies? Kids are part of popular culture, too - maybe the biggest part. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/125 "2007-08-01T14:38:46Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] > [@Autolycus](#): > > > [@VCO3](#): > > > > . . .lobster is. . . > > . . . get a vasectomy! > > I’m sorry but those two words were uncomfortably close. Actually, I think that’s a great idea for him. I’ll even buy the lobster. [/QUOTE] If he wants to save some money, I’d be happy to do the job with a stake. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/126 "2007-08-01T14:40:07Z")
Is it okay for a second-grader to know what lobster is if hir dad is a lobster fisherman and **that’s what they can afford**? Way back in the day, turkey used to be poor-people food too. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/127 "2007-08-01T14:41:11Z")
[QUOTE=Aangelica] Does **VCO3** not think kids watch TV? Or go to the grocery store (where both steak and lobster are generally on display, at least in most grocery stores in the continental US)? Or watch movies? Kids are part of popular culture, too - maybe the biggest part. [/QUOTE] I guess about 15 of us have said this now, but **VCO3** has made one of those classic idiot mistakes: assuming everyone else is as dumb as he is. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/128 "2007-08-01T14:42:50Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Faux Gras… probably best served with a delicate, white grape Juicy Juice. [/QUOTE] I understand that schools are now replacing faux grass and returning to natural grass as the fake stuff was linked to increased injuries at the play yard. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/129 "2007-08-01T17:07:03Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] I understand that schools are now replacing faux grass and returning to natural grass as the fake stuff was linked to increased injuries at the play yard. [/QUOTE] Astro-Smurf…? Rut-roh… ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/130 "2007-08-01T17:27:54Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] Just out of morbid curiousity, VCO3, what is the meaning of your username? I was thinking Very Complete Overreaction but can’t figure out what the 3 was for. [/QUOTE] Cubed. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/131 "2007-08-01T18:00:41Z")
[QUOTE=RogueRacer] Cubed. [/QUOTE] Appropriate for a block head. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/132 "2007-08-01T18:10:03Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] Kids that young shouldn’t even KNOW what lobster is. [/QUOTE] I thought we were against ignorance here… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/133 "2007-08-01T18:10:29Z")
[QUOTE=storyteller0910] **Autolycus** : where did you get the chance to eat whale meat? [/QUOTE] Japan, particularly Shizuoka. It was paired with a garlic-soy sauce and it was soooooo scrumptious. Like I said before, a mixture of beef and tuna. I had it at a friend’s house, and I remember purchasing it at the supermarket. Mm… now I’m hungry… ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/134 "2007-08-01T18:27:05Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] Just out of morbid curiousity, VCO3, what is the meaning of your username? I was thinking Very Complete Overreaction but can’t figure out what the 3 was for. [/QUOTE] It stands for “voltage controlled oscillator 3.” On an analogue synthesizer, the sounds are generated by any number of VCOs, that create various waveforms (sine, square, saw, etc). The voltage into the oscillator determines the pitch. A synth with 3 VCOs is pretty beefy. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/135 "2007-08-01T18:33:49Z")
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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/136 "2007-08-01T18:39:01Z")
If the kids are wedding guests, is it OK for them to expect stake and lobster, if that’s what they’re used to? ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/137 "2007-08-01T18:47:07Z")
What if the kids were born in Maine, on a cattle ranch? _Then_ are they allowed to know about steak and lobster? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/138 "2007-08-01T19:08:26Z")
What about if they were born in Texas, on a lobster ranch? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/139 "2007-08-01T19:09:17Z")
[inevitable]What if they were born in Nevada, at the Chicken Ranch? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848/140 "2007-08-01T19:22:26Z")
What if they were lightly braised, and served with ranch dip? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/umm-scuze-me-but-wes-used-to-eatin-stake-and-lobstar-kin-we-have-that-pwease/413848.md?page=8)