Lobster- Over Rated

It was recently my wife and mines anniversary. She bought a bunch of lobster because she thinks it taste good and likes how its fancy and all.


Me...its good and all but it aint worth the price. Its a over grown water roach.

Lol.....my favorite food.

I’m not a fan either, but my wife loves it .

I'd rather have shrimp

They just like spending our money and showing their friends.

You're in Maine. I here its pork chop cheap and even free when they wash up.

Hard to beat

As far as I know I still hold the record for most lobster eaten in one setting in Richibucto New Brunswick Canada.

Aint saying much....my father holds the kraut eating record at Kraut Fest Racine county. You willing to pay $20 a lbs for it?

Bought the lobsters right off the boat at $1 a pound.I ate 14 of them.I sure wouldn't win the kraut record as that is one of the two foods I have tried and hated.The other is cottage cheese.

Yep , overated . Dungeness crab is much better IMO


Or shrimp

100 times over!

MmMm good

Rock lobster is my favorite type of lobster.
I'd rather have shrimp.

Fun fact; lobster used to be fed to prisoners because it was considered worse than low class.

I like it all.Lobster,clams,shrimp,and scallops.When I go to a restaurant I order seafood.

Pike River, you need to be from the East coast to appreciate lobster.

lobster and steamers fried clams and scallops you can have the shrimp

I've had small lobster that was really good, and a big lobster that had a bitterness to it.
My fave is boiled peeled shrimp with cocktail sauce.

A lobster is a big bug.
They taste OK but too expensive here for what you get.

Tastes like muddy water its gross if rather eat some cod or shrimp

The bigger the better.In Canada I look around and can find them much cheaper buying them right off the boats.

If you don't like lobster, you probably haven't had it cooked correctly. All seafood can be tricky if you don't know what your doing. That being said, the best eating on the planet are King crab legs. There is no comparison.

Have had king crab legs.They are good also.

One thing about seafood is that fresh caught is by far the best.
Too far inland and its not the same.

If Blue Crabs grew as large as lobsters, there would not be a market for lobster.

When early settlers arrived in America, the lobsters could be picked up on shore in large numbers. There was a law passed to limit the number of days servants could be forced to eat lobsters.

I'm sure there's a lot of truth to that.
I've had some terrible beef steak too.

To much work for me for what little you get with blue crabs.

I went to Alaska and ate seafood everywhere I went. It was all deep fat fried. WHAT???? Best thing I had up there was prime rib. Probly from Nebraska.

But if they grew to the size of lobsters, which would you prefer?

Clams and scallops for me. Lobster is ok.

Don't know.Could never even get enough to taste them.

The lobsters in a grocery store...sitting in those tanks,have no taste. It’s a whole nuther game when you get them fresh at the coast....nice and sweet and salty.....We are having Lobstahs and STEAMAHS this weekend ....25 lobos and 10 pounds of steamers

fresh dug steamers are my favorite

Maine Lobster is awesome, rock lobster not so much...

Nice

I like lobster.
I like scallops and clams better.
We crab and I probably like blue crabs the best except for all the work to get to a tiny bit of meat.
Lobster wins the effort vs. quantity competition.

Fresh king crab is un-real. I get/catch fresh clams, scallops, dungies, shrimp, prawns, but king crab rules the day like no other.
And while I have never had Maine lobster off the boat, I have had spiny lobster off the boat, on the west coast

Interesting piece of history. During the Revolutionary War, the British held some American prisoners of war on ships. Conditions were brutal with minimal food rations. They were fed lobsters due to the fact that they were plentiful, cheap and considered "trash" food. Prisoners threatened to riot due to the large amounts of lobster they were forced to eat.

I bet there was quite a few dead pnes and very few live ones in what they fed them prisoners especially if they were picking up what drfted up on shore

You guys are crazy! Lobster is king , shrimp is good but doesn’t hold a candle to cold water lobster. I’m with Bruce on this one

John

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Alaska King crab.The real ones where each leg is over a pound.With a Ribeye to go with them.

Sounds like a terrible problem to have. Oh the humanity!!!

Went to the seafood buffet (we caught all this in about 8hrs) with another member on here we got some good grub! No lobsters tho....





















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Medium-Rare Ribeye is the best seafood going IMO.

The live lobster I have tried from the Northeast is pretty good, in small doses. King crab right from the cooker is king. Fresh spot prawns are second in my book. I will eat way too many and end up paying for it with the spots. Dungeness is third. Lobster, for me, isn’t worth the price. I might feel differently if I lived by the ocean they come from. Super fresh is where it’s at with seafood.

King crab is great, but the best seafood I've had is a tie between some big, fresh-caught Kodiak scallops, grilled, and snow crab we bought alive from a fisherman in Chignik, Alaska.

Jim

It is pricey- but the IQF (Individually quick frozen) that is processed right on the boat will surprise you.



I do to. I'm a fair hand with the fresh pork or aged beef so when I want to pay for someone else's expertise I usually pick seafood.

I’ve had some great FRESH seafood in my day. Caught lots of halibut while bear hunting in Alaska. Fresh Dungeness crab and shrimp from our traps there, dug clams while bears were watching me. Baked halibut in sour cream on the boat was fantastic. Caught lots of kings and cohos a couple years later while fishing from the same boat, they too were unforgettable.

As a kid, I’d go to Gulfport, Mississippi and shrimp with my uncle. He was a welder at the big ship yard, and had a shrimp boat he’d run on his days off. We’d gig flounder off the barrier island at night. He’d fry up shrimp or flounder that were hours old.

But I think the best seafood I’ve eaten were lobsters in Maine. I’ve been there eight times, and when I visit, I pretty much stick to lobster. I’m really fond of a good lobster roll....lots of good lobster shacks on Route 1.

Not true. Its terrific.

Biggest bug I ever et
Dennis

love lobster , but I like all sea food I've try

Love lobster and all seafood, only thing holding me back is the cost$$$

Lol.....years ago , Red Lobster had a promotion for ' Crabby Monday ' all you eat snow crab , mondays only. I went with a buddy a bunch of times. Ate a pile each time. Then after only a few months , it disappeared.
I found out much later , it was considered one of the worst marketing failures of all time. Red Lobster lost piles of money on it. Like 3-4 million dollars in just one quarter. They underestimated the amount some people could eat , plus crab prices spiked just as they started the promotion. It was said they started to lose money on the 2nd or 3rd helpings. CEO at the time resigned due to the losses incurred. I helped with that , I could eat 8 or 9 servings in one sitting........burp......

Lobster isn't overrated...it's over priced, at least in my area. Claw meat is my favorite part.

Nice pics, River Birch.

Claws are good but love the tail even more.

Travelling through the States when the kids were "Disney" age, attending all you can eat buffets and watching morbidly obese people eat themselves near to death on the featured items was actually better entertainment then Disney itself.

To each their own, but I think the claws are more tender. It's kind of like the difference between light and dark meat on a chicken or turkey. Sort of.

I’ve had ..off the boat ,5 pound lobsters. And they were just as tender...and yes the claws are the best. The tail meat is a big muscle that they use to swim with....so it’s a little tougher.

My only debate regarding lobsters is whether to go to Young's and eat them while looking over Penobscot Bay or whether to swing by Kirby's and cook them at home...

Lobster Rolls are not overated
I prefer Young’s on the bay.
Or that place in Searsport

I do miss crabbing on the Chesapeake tho. Great place to grow up

We got 6 for 24 on the dock one day in maine.

Anyone ever have a McLobster sandwich? A few years back I saw them advertised, but couldn't bring myself to try one. To me it'd be like going to Texas or St. Louis and getting a McRib

Love a good 5 pound lobster.To me I get more flavor from the tail but claws will do........in a pinch

I personally love lobster. Dip it in some melted butter, and your in heaven!

I love lobster. its the cost that is overrated.

if I lived somewhere you could catch them, if eat it every day.

$32.99/lb? I don't think so scooter.

Now you're talkin'....

Dungeness on lightly buttered sourdough , toasted to perfection with melted moz cheese , touch of horseradish and sweet pickle on the side.

Shrimp and egg salad either as is or on bread is great too.

Lobstah is ok but not my favourite .

And I thought $5 a pound was bad enough

I was up in Maine one year and seen it on a billboard. Tried it just for the heck. Poor excuse for a Lobster roll. Not that good , served on a normal hot dog roll. Would not get it again , it was cheap and tasted cheap.

To quote Crocodile Dundee, "You can eat it, but ....."

lobster - just be a delivery system for the MELTED butter-

Lobster is great! love it-but I will take King cRAB OVER LOBSTER ANYDAY!

Never have had any king crab that I can remember.
I am not sure what you guys that do not like lobsters have been getting but fresh caught lobsters are pretty darn good. Well, just about all seafood is good.

Mac