Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:38:26 UTC No. 16304791

>>16304755
I never had lobster, i had shrimp though which is said to be a bug. Why cant the elites just do shrimp farming? I'll eat the bugs then.
Lobster just seems like work. I'd try a lobster nugget or steak, but they only serve you a whole lobster with shell, claws, its disgusting, you need to do a dissection instead of just eating like one does a steak

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:09:59 UTC No. 16304884

>>16304755
I’ve had it. Crab but different is how I’ll put the taste. And by crab, I mean regular normie crab, not fucking alaskan snow crab. It takes a lot of care to keep the animal alive until it reaches the kitchen and then it must be killed immediately before cooking (or killed during cooking if savage). Hence the high cost.

When plebs ate it, they ate dead, half spoiled lobster as it spoils quickly once dead. Hence the taste was dogshit. But if prepared well it could tasted moderately good. The thing is, a good normie crab easily beats the crap out of lobster, and that’s not even talking about snow crab.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:25:38 UTC No. 16304895

>>16304755
Lobster is delicious bro

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:27:49 UTC No. 16304898

>I heard that in the past, Lobster was served as a “poor man’s food”? Is that true? Why is it now that it’s considered a “big end meat”?

Absolutely, if you lived within 20 miles of the lobstering grounds.

It’s hard to keep lobsters alive out of the water, and the meat goes bad very quickly once the lobster dies. As a result fresh lobster was a local item.

A good lobsterman could catch a lot of lobsters, enough to feed his family, trade to friends and neighbors, and sell to the cannery for cash.

Being cheap protein, a lot of local recipes using lobster were developed, such as the street food lobster roll. Boston, being within the above mentioned 20 mile limit, had a lot of lobster dishes.

In the rest of the country, canned lobster was more expensive than live lobster was locally, but still priced around the same as tuna.

Then some clever people realized there was a market for live lobsters in the high end restaurants of New York City, for people who had tasted them in Boston.

Wagons, packed with lobsters covered in seawater soaked burlap, and covered in expensive ice, could get some of the cargo to NYC alive, where they could be sold for very high prices as a a hard to get luxury item. The top end restaurants marketed them as something special.

A classic case of supply and demand. A poor family in Maine who ate lobster every day got tired of eating lobster. Supply exceeded the local demand, so the local price was low.

In Atlanta, Georgia, a few dozen lobsters might survive the trip by ship from Maine. The demand greatly exceeded the supply, and people paid outrageous sums for the few lobsters available.

By the time refrigerated rail cars, and, later, aircraft were being used to ship live lobsters, the idea was set that, at least outside the prime lobstering areas, lobster was a luxury food.

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I wonder who those 'some clever people' were...

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:30:35 UTC No. 16304903

>>16304755
Lobsters have been recognized as a delicacy since Roman times
>noooo everybody thought that lobsters were shit until about a century ago
You have been lied to. Only in some parts of America did lobsters have that bad reputation, and that is because the coastal regions of America were inhabited by Europeans who had immigrated from inland parts of Europe where they didn't have a background with sea food and therefore didn't know how to prepare lobster well.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:36:42 UTC No. 16304905

from The Count of Monte Cristo, written in 1844 during the period in which reddit would have you believe lobsters were universally reviled as a poor person's food:
> The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar’s ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic LOBSTER. Between these large dishes were smaller ones containing various dainties. The dishes were of silver, and the plates of Japanese china.
>Franz rubbed his eyes in order to assure himself that this was not a dream. Ali alone was present to wait at table, and acquitted himself so admirably, that the guest complimented his host thereupon.
What's this, a lobster being presented as an incredibly desirable and fancy food? Noooo that can't be!!!!

> One thing above all the rest heightened the respect, nay almost the veneration, of Danglars for Cavalcanti. The latter, faithful to the principle of Horace, _nil admirari_, had contented himself with showing his knowledge by declaring in what lake the best lampreys were caught. Then he had eaten some without saying a word more; Danglars, therefore, concluded that such luxuries were common at the table of the illustrious descendant of the Cavalcanti, who most likely in Lucca fed upon trout brought from Switzerland, and LOBSTERS sent from England, by the same means used by the count to bring the lampreys from Lake Fusaro, and the sterlet from the Volga.
wtf it keeps happening!!!! save me reddit!!!!!

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:45:30 UTC No. 16304912

Part of the reason for the "gotcha" crowd believing the wealthy got tricked into eat lobster is due to a prison riot in Maine where one of the demands of the prisoners was a drastic reduction in how much lobster they were fed. What is left out is that the prisoners were getting the lobsters that didn't make it to market alive. Dead lobster tastes terrible so it was sold for next to nothing to the prisons who liked that it was easy on the budget. The prisoners hated it but until they rioted, it was that or nothing on days lobster was served.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:42:39 UTC No. 16304964

>>16304791
>which is said to be a bug.
... by people who will make you eat insects?

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:48:32 UTC No. 16304972

King Charlie is a cripplecock and like all cripplecocks his circumcision dealt him an unrecoverable blow in his developmental stage which causes him all sorts of mental problems. He isn't an intelligent person with good taste, he is a divorced pedophile and everyone who is close to him seems to hate him

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:01:18 UTC No. 16304990

>>16304755
I should wine and dine my savings.
Also I've been spending more because of how much I've been livin' it up. Not because of inflation.

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:32:15 UTC No. 16305024

>>16304990
wasting your savings on moonpies and pennywhistles is not "livin' it up".
don't confuse (((livin' it up))) with "livin' it up", they're two different phrases with similar spelling but nearly opposite meanings, much like "science" and "soiyence"
leading a luxurious, successful life involves owning property and having plentiful offspring which are raised to be successful in the same fashion as well. gluttony is shilled in the media as the key to happiness, but all you're really doing is turning your hard won resources into literal shit while uselessly transferring your wealth away to people who bear you ill will. its little different from stabbing yourself in the back

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:53:39 UTC No. 16305111

>>16304898
those damned italians...

Anonymous at Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:10:00 UTC No. 16305125

>>16305111

Anonymous at Thu, 1 Aug 2024 14:35:06 UTC No. 16305872

>>16305111
nah everyone knows it was the
irish