# What's the deal with lobster?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-lobster/474397 "2008-11-25T06:48:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-lobster/474397/81 "2008-11-27T21:04:24Z")

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> [@Cervaise](#):
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> Fresh New England lobster, an hour out of the water, simply prepared, with tomalley intact, is a very good thing.
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> However, as far as Edible Oceangoing Bugs are concerned, lobster places a distant second to Dungeness crab, **which is a thousand simultaneous blowjobs in your mouth**.

Um. You’re doing it wrong.

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**Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-lobster/474397/82 "2008-11-28T04:33:41Z")

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Once I found out lobsters are dropped live into a pot of boiling water, and will scream and try to climb out, I lost all interest in eating them.

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**Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-lobster/474397/83 "2008-11-28T05:08:59Z")

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> [@Apocalypso](#):
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> Once I found out lobsters are dropped live into a pot of boiling water, and will scream and try to climb out, I lost all interest in eating them.

I thought the screaming thing was an UL…something about the escaping steam from the shell. Ever scream underwater? I don’t know why they would be able to do it. But trying to climb out? Prolly.

I saw a cooking program once—Julia Child, IIRC—where a particular recipe called for fresh lobster cut while it was alive. They used a very sharp knife and cut it along the length of the body, right through the shell…said it was really a quick death. How sad, I thought; and how right there I would be if they offered me some of the prepared dish.

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**Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-lobster/474397/84 "2008-11-28T15:37:46Z")

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The [Secret Life of [del]Lobsters[/del] Mosquitoes](http://secretlifeoflobsters.com/blog/2005_12_18_archive.asp)? Apparently chill, then kill is the most humane way to prep a live lobster.

I always get the “It’s a bug” thought pop into my head just before I drop a crab in. Same with just before I eat a lobster. Thankfully we get clean, frozen raw shrimp and prawns quite cheaply here. I hate having to peel and devein shrimp.

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