Lobster Meal

**Durgan** · 12-07-2008, 04:46 PM

http://www.durgan.org/ShortURL/?NPUAU 7 December 2008 Lobster Meal

Lobster season is now active off the coast of Nova Scotia. The lobster fishermen are getting about $3.00 per pound and lobster retail is $11.99 in my area. In previous years lobster fishermen would get over $5.00 per pound and the price retail was about $9.00. It appears the retailers are ripping people off judging by historical prices. The lower wholesale cost is not being passed on.

It is still a great opportunity to assist the fishermen by having one meal at least of fresh lobster, assuming one like lobster.

Now and then it is a good idea to have a treat, and get away from grits and black-eyed peas.

**Darlene** · 12-07-2008, 07:36 PM

I like the way you think. Yum!

**baronmom** · 12-07-2008, 08:23 PM

Lobster is one of my favorite foods. I just wish that I could afford it more often.

**pinetree** · 12-07-2008, 09:18 PM

Wow, that price is amazing, here they sell a 3oz. for $11.00. thats just the tail, which is about 3 bites. I'm drooling thinking about it. Enjoy your treat!

**monkeywrangler71** · 12-08-2008, 12:32 PM

Don't forget to put the shells in your garden.

**rosey7415** · 12-08-2008, 01:28 PM

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.........lobsta.mmmmmmmmmm one of my favorite things. my son also lobsters as well as clams, quohogs, conchs, fish, squid, etc. he has his own boat and own little business. it is a hard living, the prices always up and down, etc. the regulations......when it rains they close the bay.....etc. etc..

**Palooka** · 12-09-2008, 12:09 AM

Durgan, I thought you was a vegetarian. I could be wrong though. I wish I never looked at those pics.

Oh well, to each his own.

**Contrary Housewife** · 12-09-2008, 12:25 AM

Lobster is going for $39-$59 per pound in this area. Frozen. It is cheaper to order a lobster dinner "to go" from a restaurant than to try and buy a couple tails to cook at home.

Makes me long for my college days in New England when chicks sold for $3 during the summers, and being cheaper than chicken at the time, I ate more of them than I wanted to.

**Durgan** · 12-09-2008, 07:01 AM

Originally Posted by Palooka

Durgan, I thought you was a vegetarian. I could be wrong though. I wish I never looked at those pics.

Oh well, to each his own.

I tend to eat as much plant food as possible, but am not dogmatic about it. My eating of food is pragmatic, and seeking to get sufficient, and adequate nutrition with minimal effort. Don't forget food has a social function attached after the want requirements are met. It goes back to sharing the proceeds of the hunt, when our ancestors were swinging from tree to tree-not too long past by the actions of many today.

**corpsefeet** · 12-09-2008, 07:06 AM

We do not eat Lobster. Too fancy for our taste. Lobster seems so... excessive, so pompous, so..pretentious. We are really not the type- I could think of much more that I could buy with the amount of money one lobster would cost.

**Missy** · 12-09-2008, 11:03 AM

My uncle is a a lobsterman. So I get them now and again for my hubby. He ships it to me. Not often. But now and then. I can't eat it, allergic to shellfish.

**nandmsmom** · 12-09-2008, 11:12 AM

Lately we can get lobsters for 4.99 a pound. We have a treat every now and again for that price.

**rosey7415** · 12-09-2008, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by corpsefeet

We do not eat Lobster. Too fancy for our taste. Lobster seems so... excessive, so pompous, so..pretentious. We are really not the type- I could think of much more that I could buy with the amount of money one lobster would cost.

not trying to start a war or debate here, but.........i feel that saying pompous and pretentious is really out of line!

my son gives them to me for free. sometimes here in new england we get them for 4.99 a pound. hell, we were eating this stuff since childhood. i grew up on all kinds of seafood!!! even if they are expensive, what is wrong with getting them on an anniversary, birthday, special occasion? no worse than treating yourself out to a good steak once in a while.

**fixer** · 12-09-2008, 03:55 PM

DW grew up in New England with an uncle who was a lobster man. She ate lobster many times when they went unsold. I, on the other hand, grew up on a beef farm. When we did not have much money, there was always steak to eat. It just depends on where you come from.