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• Yipppeee! Lobster is on sale in time for Christmas.
  • Ouch, who would pay that much for lobster?
    • Wow! Even at Christmas? $4.00 a pound? At a supermarket or from the guys at the dock?
      • At a local shop...
        • WOW! Don't buy from these guys in Maine!!! $ 27.00 a pound for little guys
          • What are those claw things?
            • Those things are not as tasty... real lobster comes from COLD water. Prawns are okay, but they're Prawns Mate.
              • a barrel of crawfish and a keg of beer are pretty tasty too.
                • Not all of us can down that as you can at one sitting Jerry....
                  • you invite some friends
                    • Burp!
            • I've always heard those called "rock shrimp"...at least till they grow big enough to a tail bigger than one bite
              • Trucking them more than overnight i guess becomes an issue. They're all trucked in here and theres a number of seafood
        • 4/ pound retail today, those folks must be starving.
          • Tom, I'm seeing alot of new shiny pick-up trucks...
            • I agree, guys in my harbor say it's a pretty good season this year.
              • Boat price locally is under $4 a pound..
              • I'm paying about $30 per pound for my lobster
    • Bigger question is...
      • We like it in omlettes
      • the only eating lobster outdoors rule
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      • What! Lobster is big for Xmas. We always have some.
        • We had them once for New Year's Eve dinner.
          • New Years is the other big day for fish markets.
            • Scallops are in too...season opened Sat....
              • I had some last night, Sushi, and some local whelks, even my first "uni"
            • The French prefer lobster for Christmas or New Years dinner. Guess you guys call them "Freedom Crustaceans" down there.
      • When you are tamed someday Gail, maybe they'll let you inside the house to eat.
      • Keep the butter from freezing..
    • LOL! You don't get lobster everyday, Todd.
      • We seldom buy it
        • Todd, if you're short 10 bucks for a pair of bugs for you and the wife, I'm sure we can take up a X-Mas fund for ya!
          • We don't buy lobster much because it is a pain to cook it
            • that why I give them an extra $1/lobster @ Cuttyhunk
    • Aren't the powers that be in Maine banning the import of Canadian lobsters to their processing plants?
  • We've been paying around 6/ pound lately.
  • Mostly we get lobster tails from Australia 'round here at ten to twenty bucks a pound.....
    • Somewhat analogous to that is Dungeness Crab, the best there is.
      • Ah yes, Dungeness crabs...
        • Yes.....bring on the Dungeness Crab
          • Looks like the full pelt of a Nauga on the wall?