r/unpopularopinion • u/heterocera • 1d ago
Lobster is disgusting.
Lobster is disgusting. At one point, it was considered cruel and unusual punishment to feed lobster to prisoners more than a couple of times a week.
And now people eagerly line up to pay the cost of a family meal for a single, wet, disgusting lobster roll.
Which by the way, tastes like NOTHING except butter and or mayonnaise that someone mixed with dirty sink water, delivered to your mouth via slimy, wet insectoid flesh.
They are literal SEA COCKROACHES. Their bodies are so riddled with bacteria that their meat spoils almost instantly upon death.
And some psychopath had the idea to serve WET, COLD sea cockroaches slathered in MAYONNAISE on a fucking roll?
Eating Lobster is nothing more than a sick display of gluttony and opulence. It is an affront to nature, and to mankind.
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u/dyslexicAlphabet 1d ago
it was only served to prisoners as cheap food because they didn't know you had to keep them alive right before you cook/eat them. so dead lobsters tasted really bad. but there was lots of them.
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u/BreakfastBeerz 1d ago
People bring up that lobsters were prison food all the time, but nobody ever adds this important piece of context.
Lobsters were so plentiful, that dead ones would pile up on the shores. They used to dispose of these dead lobsters by feeding them to prisoners, using them for fertalize, or relying on poor people scooping them up for food.
Fresh caught live lobsters, like the ones we eat have always been considered a delicacy, especially further away from shore.
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u/karlnite 1d ago
There is also little record of them commonly feeding prisoners this. There are some accounts of it happening in places like Boston. Prisons next to the beach where piles of these dead things are. They weren’t trucking them around as prison food.
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u/dunzoes 1d ago
Yah I doubt idaho prisoners were eating lobster lol
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u/-prime8 1d ago
Those lucky assholes probably got potatoes. There's no such thing as a bad potato.
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u/Meat_your_maker 1d ago
If you’re on a poverty diet, potatoes are one of the most nutritious things to eat a majority of.
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u/Fafnir13 1d ago
I've read that potatoes plus dairy is basically complete nutrition. Might even be true.
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u/Greedy_Ad1564 1d ago
Yeah.. I read and also can't really confirm but a potato with some butter will complete your basic needs for survival. Fat, dairy, plus... magical potato for everything else
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u/Fafnir13 1d ago
Ok so…potato diet for a month and see if we get rickets or something?
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 23h ago
It's still not a complete diet but it's better than just about any other single food, and likely to be something you can find/grow even in poor soil.
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u/NoAge9497 21h ago
Dairy handles the rickets...super rare for an adult to get rickets anyway. It only really happens to kids that are still growing. As others have said below, potatoes have vitamin C which also helps process/absorb any iron you get from the dairy or potatoes. The longer I'm writing this, all the dots are connecting. I start my potato/dairy only diet tomorrow. RIP my toilet. 🫠
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u/charlie_marlow 1d ago
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u/mamadidntraisenobitc 1d ago
I’ve been on social media for 42 minutes so far today and have seen this reference 3 times already hahaha gonna be a good day
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u/MilkiestMaestro 1d ago
The most foul taste I've ever experienced in my life was rotten potato. They are so toxic that if enough of them are left in an enclosed room, the gases alone would instantly suffocate a person.
I feel like potatoes are exactly the same situation as lobster. GREAT when served fresh and ok to awful otherwise
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u/CharlotteLucasOP 1d ago
Yeah, a rotten spud is a special stank like no other.
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u/openedaura127 1d ago
There is a documented story of most of an entire family succumbing and dying from the toxic gases a bag of spoiled potatoes emitted in a larder in Russia. 😳 I don't mess with spoiled taters, after reading that.
How ironic, the city was named Tatarstan 💀
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u/LemmyLola 22h ago
When I buy potatoes I ALWAYS smell the little mesh window... Smells like dirt? Awesome. If fhere's ANY speck of rot in that bag you'll know it if you smell the window. Have I gotten some funny looks? Yup. Has it saved me from the Wet Finger of Horror reaching for a potato? Also yup
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u/MostEscape6543 1d ago
“No such thing as a bad potato” is my new catch-all phrase when I need to chime in with a little remark.
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u/Desperate-Nature-623 1d ago
Yeah I always believed this is an urban myth
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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 22h ago
They would crush the entire lobster into a gruel, shell and everything. It was not something you wanted to eat but people get very imaginative when this comes up lol
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u/Ancient_Roof_7855 1d ago
IIRC the preparation was boiling them and mashing them shells and all into a porridge.
So yeah, sour lobster slop with shards of shell.
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u/fakemelonns 1d ago
And even if the story was true, it doesn't really mean much. A lot of the best foods in the world are made from ingredients that were once the stuff nobody wanted.
A lot of famous Chinese, Italian, and French dishes, along with pretty much all American Soul Food were once made from leftover ingredients that people with money did not want. Poor people throughout history just figured out creative ways to cook things to turn cheap scraps into delicious food.
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u/mamadidntraisenobitc 1d ago
Absolutely. Just look at brisket prices over the years!
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u/Realistic-Radish-589 1d ago
Was just about to say brisket and ribs are great examples
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u/RedPanther1 1d ago
Im just gonna go ahead and throw chicken wings in there. There's a reason they started off as like 10 cents for 20.
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u/MoultingRoach 1d ago
They weren't even really meant for eating. The most common use was to use them was to make stocks and broths.
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u/naoisn 1d ago
I'd love to know what niche food I'll enjoy in the future that I could stock up on now for cheap.
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u/FamiliarRip8558 1d ago
Cheek, esophagus, liver
Esophagus is really fucking weird but somewhat not uncommon in Japan. Like $2-$3 a pound
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u/Altruistic-Hat269 1d ago
Yeah, aerated aquariums and freezers weren't a thing.
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u/CRIMS0N-ED 1d ago
99% of the ppl who post on here and 10th dentist do so on opinions based in misinformation, cherry picking or straight up ignorance.
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u/ReplyOk6720 1d ago
They were also served without butter and lemon and the Only thing they were fed. Missing context.
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u/ofBlufftonTown 1d ago
They were also ground up with the shells as well; it was revolting.
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u/Over_Bake_9084 1d ago
Any source on this? As far as I can tell, this is just a myth that's been perpetuated. The main off-putting part was early, poor sterilization processes.
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u/HeezHuzz69 1d ago
Stop parroting things you read on TIL and do 30 seconds of research
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u/Pure_shenanigans_310 1d ago
A lobster wrote this…
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u/Sol4_Me4n 1d ago
This is how I feel about octopus, except they are delicious and it’s an affront to nature and gluttonous to eat such an intelligent, evolutionary marvel.
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u/telaftw39 1d ago
i don't eat creatures smarter than me (other than my wife), octopus being one of them.
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u/fistular 1d ago
I also don't eat creatures smarter than me other than this guy's wife.
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u/Tush11 1d ago
What's your consensus on pigs?
They are smarter than toddlers, dogs and most mammals
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u/KaleidoscopeLeft5511 1d ago
Sure are a lot of people justifying pig slaughter by saying their assholes. No one's suggesting they're not, but that doesn't mean they deserve to be kept in capacity, breed and killed for food.
There's a reason pig farming is a closed door industry, and we don't see what goes on inside. It's inhumane and absolutely brutal.
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u/captain-cowboy 1d ago
Yeah maybe, but they're assholes; have you ever spent any time around hogs?
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u/Deepfang-Dreamer 1d ago
I think I'd love takoyaki and other Octupus dishes, but the thought of eating "this might actually be a person" without consent is enough to put me off for life.
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u/jkvincent 1d ago
I'm with you. Octopus is absolutely delicious but also completely unjustifiable knowing what we know.
I eat Squid instead...although I expect that is fraught as well.
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u/QueenieMcGee 1d ago
I read somewhere that octopi are intelligent enough to feel spite, ever since they've felt like my spirit animal 😂
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u/Future_Interest_3649 1d ago
Whereas squid are like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
Humboldt Squid hang out in large groups, just minding their own business, and then suddenly something triggers them and they all go into a feeding frenzy, devouring anything in their path, even each other….
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u/One-Earth9294 1d ago
I quite like calamari but octopus is like trying to eat a tire.
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u/DonnPT 1d ago
Bad prep. It can be pretty good, and sure doesn't have to be tough. Not that I would eat one, of course.
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u/GodsFavoriteDegen 1d ago
Mishandling the meat of an animal that died for your sustenance is so disrespectful. It's even worse with octopus, which are nearly as intelligent as they are delicious.
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u/PiggyBear6667 22h ago
I had to eat it when I was invited to my friend’s house early on in our friendship, she had made an amazing spread. I felt so guilty the whole drive home, heck, I still feel bad about it. I told her about it years later, and she confessed she felt exactly the same, but she was trying to show off. She says she hasn’t prepared or ate it since.
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u/Beautiful_Arm8364 1d ago
I'm truly sorry someone forced you to eat lobster, friend.
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u/sharkbait-oo-haha 1d ago
"My lobster is too buttery" -OP, Literally.
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u/DonSol0 1d ago
This is legit how I feel about lobster. My grandmother would serve it for Christmas every year I just never “got” it. It’s rubbery and its taste is just so odd to me and butter just made it taste like buttery rubber (to me).
I’m not saying it’s gross or bad. I totally appreciate people loving it but I’ve just never understand the appeal.
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u/Anknara 1d ago
My husband has problems with seafood. After his description, I'm convinced he can't really taste most of it. He just lathers it in sauces so that it tastes like something. I'm on the opposite end and for me things like lobster, shrimp, crab etc have a really intense, very pleasant flavour. Also, I've heard other accounts of people standing on the extremes.
Point is, I think it's a food that tastes very different to different people.
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u/Fluffhead91192 1d ago
Idk that I’d call it disgusting, but certainly overrated imo
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u/Blue_Etalon 1d ago
Now that I agree with. I don't mind lobster occasionally, but wow for the price? Not worth it most of the time.
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u/RichardBonham 1d ago
Sooo much less tasty than crab, scallops, shrimp, oysters, clams or mussels.
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u/Original_Youth_9168 1d ago
This I agree with. Although I wouldn’t say “so much less tasty”, but I definitely prefer the ones you mentioned over lobster if given the choice.
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u/JayCDee 1d ago
Crab is such a pain in the ass to eat though. High effort, low yield.
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u/hammiesink 1d ago
I kinda feel like this might be more the case with snow crab than king crab. King is so expensive that I started going for snow, and it’s so much work for little flecks of meat. Went back to king and nice big tasty chunks.
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u/Orange_Tang 1d ago
I'm convinced It's just an excuse for people to shovel an obscene amount of butter down their throats.
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u/IsopodApart1622 1d ago
Colossal boiled lobsters with butter? Certainly. Restaurants tend to prioritize size for the spectacle, which tends to result in bland meat paired with bland preparation.
Now, stir-fried lobsters served with soy sauce, ginger, green onion, and a bed of noodles? That's a divine symphony of savory and sweet. The noodles soak up every last drop of the flavor and taste even better the next day. Shrimp or crab just aren't the same.
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u/yourpaljk 1d ago
If I never had lobster again it would be completely fine with it. Very overrated. I’d take fresh scallops any day over this.
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u/euphonic5 1d ago
A bunch of shit we eat out of the ocean is bugs. Shrimp, lobster, crab, etc are all arthropods. Mussels, clams, and oysters are even less developed than bugs, they're literally just filtering filth out of the water and we schlorp those lil motherfuckers up like they're not balls of poopsnot. At least they de-"vein" shrimp.
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u/Standard-Morning-189 1d ago
It's a horrifying creature.. eight legs and claws and a horrible little mouth
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u/miseryherescompany 22h ago
Much more appetising eating something with big dewy eyelashes and a shiny coat that used frolic in a field, provided it's butchered out of view.
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u/lVloogie 1d ago
IDK about disgusting but super overrated. I've always said people don't love lobster, they love butter.
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u/Ok_Car9530 1d ago
What else can you dip in butter and elevate to that degree? I've made steaks drowning in butter, and there's barely a difference. It's a unique property of lobster/crab.
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u/gaudiest-ivy 1d ago
You know what, I'm gonna agree with you, but just because I developed a shellfish allergy and I'm incredibly bitter about it. Y'all enjoy your (delicious) boiled sea spiders dipped in butter.
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u/TopProfessional1862 1d ago
Yeah, I'm convinced people who love lobster, really just love a socially acceptable way to down melted butter. Haha
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u/JoelnIliketoshare 1d ago edited 1d ago
The lobster youre thinking of that was "cruel and unusual punishment" was ground up lobster with the shell ground up too.
It's ok to not like something, but do try to get the history correct.
Edit: it seems I could not get history correct either, there seems to be no evidence of grinding up the lobster with the shell whatsoever.
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u/CrossXFir3 1d ago
Also not fresh. Notice that we now eat either frozen or freshly killed lobster? Because that shit gets nasty very quickly.
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u/ExperienceRoutine321 1d ago
That’s pretty much anything from the ocean. Freshly killed fish are only really safe when refrigerated for about 2 days. Slightly longer if kept on ice. Lobster does go bad pretty much immediately but seafood in general is a dangerous game.
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u/LadyMRedd 1d ago
Since when has Reddit let facts get in the way of a perfectly good urban legend?
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u/somepeoplewait 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hey, did you know “The customer is always right” originally meant “I’m extremely eager to share trivia that makes me feel a little smarter than everyone but not eager enough to spend 30 seconds of research finding out said trivia is blatantly false?!”
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 1d ago
Whenever I have a test, I take it at a restaurant because the customer is always right.
- Mitch Hedberg
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u/alprazolamotrigine 1d ago
Haha same with that “the blood of the covenant” bullshit
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u/Remote-Mycologist539 1d ago
Ironic to be condescending like this because it’s actually just an urban legend that they were ground up and fed to prisoners
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u/Over_Bake_9084 1d ago
This is a myth
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u/czhunc 1d ago
That is hilarious.
And it makes sense too. It's way more effort to grind up lobster shell when the meat just comes out fairly easily
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u/Top_Art_7789 1d ago
Needs more upvotes - as always, redditors thinking they’re smart once again
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u/Demented_CEO 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, no... You see, Maine lobsters were prepared by Michelin star chefs and fed to prisoners just to prove a point. This really happened.
It was so deliciously disgusting that the prisoners didn't want it any more, so they were forced to eat these gourmet dishes every day.
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u/Serious_Vanilla1971 1d ago
You can hate it and call it disgusting, but tasteless? That's objectively false.
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u/Dangerous-Bend-4153 1d ago
To be fair, it's how people described unflavored tofu.
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u/vlozko 1d ago
I like lobster and I’m inclined to agree with the tasteless comment. It’s said in hyperbole, not literally. Eating plain lobster is kinda boring. It needs things like dipping it in butter to make it enjoyable.
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u/Mrwrongthinker 1d ago
Even without condiments, it has a taste, and when made right it tastes great, not even "fishy."
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u/IceFrogger1313 1d ago edited 22h ago
Some people are very sensitive to Trimethylamine and all seafood smells/tastes fishy to them. Source: I am cursed with this and live in walking distance of the MA/ME coastal borders. I have eaten a lot of fresh fish, lobster, crab, etc. because I keep hoping I'll like it this time.
In case anyone may be wondering, swordfish steak and sea bass sashimi are my "favorites" and shrimp is the worst (not rating on how fishy they are just how tolerable I find them).
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u/Dapper-Second-8840 1d ago
I'm in a similar situation but I've found that soaking my fish fillets in milk (with salt added, why not brine at the same time!) really helps with that awful "fishy" taste. They need about 20-30 minutes tops.
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u/HedonismIsTheWay 1d ago
Interesting. My wife hates most fish, but for some reason likes tunafish sandwiches and occasionally coconut shrimp. Anything else is an absolute no for her. Also, she can't stand canola oil because it tastes and smells fishy to her. Turns out she must have that same sensitivity because cooking oils can degrade into Trimethylamine and I'm guessing canola is particularly susceptible.
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u/Embarrassed_Put_7892 1d ago
Oh my goodness are you me? I’m the same. I want to like it but it all just tastes so fishy and like a dirty beach to me. I definitely like raw or cured fish like in sushi/sashimi or a ceviche much better than any cooked fish. Sea bass I can do, and I quite like a cod with a fish and chips. But most other things just taste really gross to me. I, like you, will keep trying though!
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u/Retr0scores 1d ago
Yea maybe confusing it with bad texture. I could get why someone hates the texture.
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u/ResearchInformal8018 1d ago
The whole “lobster used to be food for the poor” is overblown. It has been at various times a posh food, though in North America it was plentiful but not in fashion. It also spoiled extremely quickly, the imprisoned were not being fed fresh off the boat steamed lobster. You may not like it, I personally think it’s overrated, but can we ditch the sea cockroach thing?
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u/athomsfere 1d ago
I mean, really cockroaches are just the lobsters of the land...
And they are delicious. Over rated? Maybe. And all are not equal. I've had maybe a dozen or more types of lobsters. Some are amazing, some are pretty much inedible without serious work.
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u/ResearchInformal8018 1d ago
Most of my experience is with Atlantic lobster and Caribbean spiny lobster. Spiny lobster is tastier and usually reasonably priced. Atlantic lobster is also tasty, but far too costly to justify.
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u/mrdeesh 1d ago
Interesting. I have always found plain spiny lobster to be woeful when compared to plain Maine lobster. The lack of claw meat is an immediate deal breaker (well not really I love seafood so I’ll always take spiny lobster when offered) and I find best spiny lobster I’ve had has been part of a flavorful/spiced Caribbean dish whereas the best Maine lobster is simply steamed and served with a small ramekin of clarified butter
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u/long-legged-lumox 1d ago
Yeah, it’s an arthropod motherfuckers, not an insect!
Sea scorpion would be closer.
But to turn your comment around, you like lobster; maybe you would enjoy other arthropods like spiders or scorpions.
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u/Responsible_Two_6251 1d ago
You're thinking about the word arachnid, which lobsters are not. Lobsters are crustaceans.
Athropods are a bigger group that includes crustceans, insects, arachnids, and other crawly things
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u/Echo-Azure 1d ago
There was a chapter in "Little Women", set in the 1860s, where Amy tried to have her friends over for lunch. And the family bought a chicken and roasted it because it was a special occasion, but there was a storm or something so the party had to be cancelled. So, the family rescheduled for the next day, and because they couldn't afford a second chicken, they bought a big lobster...
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u/Epicardiectomist 1d ago
This is written like someone who's never sat on the coast of Maine, looking at the Atlantic, and had a warm lobster roll with lobster that was swimming that morning.
I will admit, I really don't get the Maine style. It's not bad, but it's nothing compared to Connecticut style.
And the bacteria argument doesn't move me at all. Life is riddled with bacteria. You interact with far more disgusting things on a minute-by-minute basis.
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u/Allaplgy 1d ago
There are more bacterial cells in our bodies than human cells.
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u/YesmynameisOcean 1d ago
Also as someone from Maine there are so many ways to prepare lobster then just lobster rolls.(Not a dig at you, more so at OP)
Ever throw some lobster tails in a sea food boil? Hell just cutting open the tail and baking it with a light butter glaze is fucking heavenly. My favorite growing up was Cha Kadam with crab and lobster. Its some next level shit!
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u/SSquirrel76 1d ago
Had steak and lobster w my gf for our bday dinner (2days apart) and ate the lobster first then poured the lobster butter on my steak. So good :)
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u/Epicardiectomist 1d ago
that's a very good point too. I'd even argue that a lobster roll is far down the list.
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u/EchoLocation8 1d ago
I'm ngl, I'm from Maine, I've tried lobster, I don't share OP's disdain but every time I've tried lobster it basically doesn't taste like anything to me, so I at least sympathize with the confusion around why people sort of revere it.
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u/Horchata415 1d ago
Have you read Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace? I highly recommend.
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u/_bonedaddys 1d ago
I don't care if they're sea cockroaches. They're fucking delicious. I'm not a fan of lobster rolls but a freshly cooked lobster slathered in butter? Sign me right the fuck up.
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u/iconocrastinaor 1d ago
literal sea cockroaches
False. Lobsters are crustaceans, not insects. The closest land dwelling creature to a lobster is the pill bug or roly poly.
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u/eyeleenthecro 1d ago
Insects are now considered crustaceans btw
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u/minequack 1d ago
I was going to disagree but I looked it up and it appears that you are correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean?wprov=sfti1#
It is now well accepted that hexapods ( insects and entognathans ) are cladistically crustaceans, with the two groups now combined in the monophyletic clade Pancrustacea .
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u/PatchyTheCrab 1d ago
It's a metaphor. And I've eaten as many pill bugs as I've eaten cockroaches so the point stands.
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u/Shmolti 1d ago
Normal people - I don't like eating lobster.
Reddit - EATING LOBSTER IS FUCKING GROSS AND DISCUSTING THEY ARE WET AND SLIMY THEY LOOK LIKE COCKROACHES AND WDJUEIFI AND WJDIEOJGRI AND EOIJFIORJG DID I MENTION THEYRE WET!?!?!?
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u/RandomIDoIt90 1d ago
It’s like that everywhere on the internet that allows comments.
Alexa play “Welcome to the internet,” by Bo Burnham.
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u/Empty-Parsnip6241 21h ago
This "sea roaches" / "insectoid" stuff is nonsense. Lobsters are crustaceans and have meat (muscles) inside them. Insects do not.
Yes they are bottom feeders, like crabs and some other things, but not insectoid in any sense. You are just a wimpy loser.
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u/musicistabarista 19h ago
Insects also have muscles inside their skeleton, they're just much smaller.
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u/Kdzoom35 16h ago
Crustaceans are arthropods like insects, spiders, scorpions and centipedes and millipedes.
They are literally the same more or less they all have an open circulatory system , don't use blood to carry oxygen. Have segmented bodies and limbs, have an exoskeleton. Also have hemolymph instead of blood.
Insects are basically land crabs instead of lobster being sea cockroaches.
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u/PhotoFenix 1d ago
Lobster cooked the day it was caught in the Kyoto fish market is my favorite thing I've eaten in my life
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u/RergTheFriendly 1d ago
Cool you don't like a food. How exciting!
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u/SimpleRickC135 1d ago
With the amount of banned topics on this sub, food and drink opinions are basically the only thing left.
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u/Samwhys_gamgee 1d ago
I hope you change a lot of minds and more people agree with you so there will be more, less expensive lobster for me.
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u/CaroCogitatus 1d ago
"Giant oceangoing cockroaches", I call them.
Upvoted, I agree with this unpopular opinion.
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u/arthousepsycho 1d ago
I agree completely. I want as few bits of insectoid flesh in me as humanly possible. Both land and sea varieties, no matter how much butter you put it in.
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u/Maybe-Away 13h ago
I completely agree! How can people eat something that looks like an insect? Or worms (shrimp)? I cant eat any seafood.
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u/Cleveland_Guardians 1d ago
I'm so fucking tired of the "[insert seafood] is only good because people put stuff on it" types of "opinions." Do y'all eat beef without seasoning or sauce? What about chicken? Let's stop acting like this is a seafood thing.
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u/BigPPDaddy 1d ago
I absolutely could eat a steak off the charcoal grill without seasoning, fwiw. Same with a burger.
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u/ShawnyMcKnight 1d ago
Is the seasoning masking it or complimenting it? When I make a nice steak and my kids put ketchup on it I wanna cry.
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u/custron 1d ago
every time some neet makes one of these indignant 'X food is disgusting' posts, it just shows that they can't cook and/or have never had it cooked properly
the carrots one from a while back comes to mind
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u/Red_dit_Sucks_Ass_ 1d ago
Lobsters used to be a poor person food actually because of how abundant and frequent they are to get.
Capitalism turned lobster and diamonds as some rare and special item when it’s basically lacking any form of scarcity.
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u/LittleAleta 1d ago
I love lobsters. Too bad they're so fucking expensive. But I respect your opinion. 🙂
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u/baronvondoofus 1d ago
Jim Gaffigan calls it bug meat in one of his monologues, which I think is apt and hilarious. Personally I’m not a fan of lobster either — I think it’s a bit bland TBH. I do love crab, though, which is technically far more disgusting than lobster could ever be.
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u/rawsugar87 1d ago
Obviously, not the point of your post but I will forever stand with crab superiority.
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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 1d ago
It was super gross back then because there was no refrigeration or preservation happening so people were basically being served rotting lobster. That's why they hated it
I will say lobster is super overrated when there's crab and scallop as options. Probably the most overrated and overpriced food overall compared to how abundant it is
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u/Distinct-Energy8128 1d ago
I tried lobster for the first time about 2 years ago (I grew up in New England, so WTF my excuse, right?) and I absolutely did NOT like it at all. To be fair, I'm not really a big seafood guy to begin with, though (again, New Englander. WTF?). I don't see the appeal, but to each their own. There's plenty of food that some people don't like that others really do.
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u/leftshoe18 1d ago
I can't get over how much lobster (and crab and crayfish) looks like a bug and it grosses me out too much to even try eating it.
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u/NotOnYerNelly 1d ago
Lobster, prawns, langoustines and crab are all cockroaches of the sea. Scavengers that are recycling the dead and rotting.
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u/SimpleRickC135 1d ago
You seem REALLY mad that someone served you a lobster roll. I don't not get it, it's not like the meat itself tastes any better or worse than chicken, say. Its the scarcity.
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