Totally! This makes me absolutely convinced that the first poor bastard to ever attempt to eat one must have been mighty damned hungry! However, it was brilliant!
I would happily eat cockroaches if they were filled with lobster meat.
Genetic engineers: get on that! Make 'em lobster sized, and grow on trees, too.
I would totally welcome a roach infestation then.
I do actually have that exact thought every time I eat lobster/shrimp, but it’s so good I manage to get it down anyway. I think about my love of seafood every time I see someone eat bugs/grubs whatever on tv and get grossed out - a little voice says “you eat seafood and that’s just giant bugs”
I had some Lobster in Maine this summer. Steamed and served on a plain white hotdog bun with french fries and a lemon. No salt, no pepper. Overall, it was pretty good, but nothing I’d pay $20 for again.
Nope, you’re not the only Mainer on SDMB, I’m a Mainer too
as far as lobstah goes, I LOVE it, I wonder if the people who dislike it have ever had one fresh off the boat, minutes out of the ocean, lobster does not travel well
If you want the best lobster experience possible, find a small coastal resturant that gets their critters daily, fresh off the boat is the only way to truly enjoy them
I’ve had lobster fresh off the boat, and some from the megaconglomerate grocer, there IS a difference, lobster shipped in from a central vendor is bland and slightly rubbery, fresh off the boat, it has a flakier consistency and delicate sweetness
Lobster = cockroach
Shrimp = silverfish
Oysters/Clams = water filters
Crabs = well, crabs… duh.
Is there any truth to the idea that “Interestingly enough, lobster used to be poor person food” ?
Is Chilean seabass really just pattagonia toothfish remarketed?
I heard that in the early days of the American colonies Lobster was considered a common man’s food. No cite on that though.
I don’t like it. Love shrimp, find Lobster kind of dull.
When I lived in San Diego, I had a friend with a boat. He said you could sail down to Mexico and a fisherman would come up and trade you fresh lobster for a carton of Marlboros or something. Living on a boat and trading things to fisherman for fresh lobster became my vision of heaven.
I would agree that it requires seasoning but if done right is wonderful. If I just was drowning it in butter I would rank king crab higher but Lobster is still great.
Did you know that Puerto Nuevo was once just a couple of houses where you ate in their dining rooms?
Anyway, there’s another place in the area that offers all kinds of seafood for a good price, and it isn’t trampled by tourists. You have to take a long dirt road from the highway, and I’m not even sure if the place has a name.
I love lobster. Last summer, I was introduce to it Bay of Fundy style – cold with just a little bit of butter. Amazing.
Of course, it helps that they caught it earlier that day.
When I was a kid, our birthday treat was a lobster dinner. Only the birthday boy could have it, though; the other two of us had to watch enviously. 
I <3 lobster. But I agree it’s usually way overpriced.
You teabag lobster? 
I like lobster, but not that much.
I realize this was meant in jest, but my inner pedant cannot let it go.
The subphyla into which lobsters and roaches are classed (crustacea and hexapoda, respectively) are within the same phylum (arthropoda). The system is admittedly imperfect but it is used by biologists and paleontologists all over the world, so it’s what we’ve got.
So, it is roughly equivalent to say, in a discussion about eating elephants: “You realize you are eating giant, terrestrial tunicates, right?”. Phylum chordata, subphylum craniata and urochordata, respectively. Less preposterously, you could say elephants and rats (order mammalia).
Dang it! Mammalia is a class, not an order.
When I was a kid I was expected to eat what was in front of me.
One night we had lobster, and I didn’t like it. I was six years old and it tasted too rich and buttery and totally gagged me.
My parents were like, stay at the table til you eat it.
So I sat at the table for a long time, probably an hour or more after dinner. I really didn’t WANT to eat that lobster.
Finally I did eat it. By the time I did it was ice cold and rubbery and clotted with cold congealed butter, but I ate it because I knew I’d spend the night sitting up at the table if I didn’t.
Later that night I threw it up all over my bedroom.
I haven’t been able to eat it since, except once, many years later, when an old boyfriend made lobster. It still wasn’t good. Thank God he was a cheap-ass and had bought small ones.
Well, lobsters are closer to cockroaches than pretty much any other (North American) human food (aside from crabs, shrimp and the occasional novelty chocolate-covered mealworm). Plus, the comparison is also based on the idea that lobsters are, like roaches, scavenging bottom-feeders eating whatever rotting stuff they stumble across (partially true, though lobsters also prey on live shellfish and anything else they can catch). Though in practice, a significant amount of lobster diet in the NE comes from bait in lobster traps (I was told by a researcher that the mass of bait put into traps each year is a little more than the mass of lobsters caught). So maybe free-range farmed pigs are the better comparison.
On lobsters being poor food of old, the – completely unverified-- story I heard was of families in financial reverses a generation or so ago carefully making sure the shells weren’t visible in their garbage, so they could avoid the shame of having their neighbors know that the family was reduced to eating lobster.
I heard that giant tarantulas taste like crab. I’d eat one, but I’m nuts.
You’re not talking about that old hotel in San Quintin, are you? Delicious crab claws and margaritas! Is this place somewhere near Rosarito?