Is lobster that big of a deal? I've been east coast all my life and for the past two years worked in Maine...

Is lobster that big of a deal? I've been east coast all my life and for the past two years worked in Maine. We hold an annual twin lobster dinner and what is a ghost town after labor day turns into fucking hell when we host our annual lobster dinner. $15 for two lobsters, sides and whatever the fuck anyone brings. People fucking lose it. You'll have grown ass adults(mostly 50+) actually shove people aside and bug the fuck out because they wanted more butter.
Last year I had my first full lobster. Had no idea how to eat it and i was tired after serving fucking butter for 8 hours nonstop so i just smashed it apart with a soup can. I don't even work in the food industry. We just do shitty hamburgers and ice cream on weekends then we have this hell. People don't even buy trays. They bring pizza boxes, the tops of bins, etc. Which I think is funny, really. But every year seems to turn into an almost riot. We had to split tomorrow into two dinners, one at 3pm and another at 5pm. We had this months in advance and people are still losing it since we are sold out of the 5pm one. It's been a ghost town since labor day and now it feels like 4th of July.

Why the fuck do people care about lobster this much? Apparently our prices is awesome but this is Maine. It's not the only chance for you to get it.

To clarify more I work maintenance. I clean up dead woodland creatures, right wasps, cut down trees, fix electricity, pick up trash and will fill it at the busy office and whatnot. Also have worked McDonald's as a teenager and two waitering jobs. I've had my rush hour busy days for fast-food and casual restaurant days but I really can't wrap my head about this lobster buisness. Most of our people live 2 or so hours away but even the ones a town over lose it. I guess I can understand Midwest people from what little I've been told about how they don't really get seafood.

It can be really good done well, I've had some excellent lobster dishes in restaurants. Its all about the experience, if the first time I was exposed to shrimp it was head on, shell on and unveined perhaps I wouldn't be as much of a fan of it if my first experience wasn't a very nice shrimp cocktail

Daily reminder that lobster used to be considered garbage food, literally not suitable for prisoners.

Daily reminder that because the most delicious lobsters are thin shelled, and because the thin shelled ones can't survive transport, the lobster you get from some small restaurant next to the ocean is far better than the fancy place hundreds of miles from water.

>Daily reminder that lobster used to be considered garbage food, literally not suitable for prisoners.
>ground whole lobster boiled to shit and unseasoned

thin shelled ones can survive transport to some degree just not something on an airplane or anything like that

Where in Maine are you?

It's not, it's honestly a hype thing
Lobster is overrated as all hell

but then again im a weirdo who prefers "fishy" fish over "clean" fish and loves eating blue crabs

Mainefag here - where are you dogg

Here's the thing about lobster, especially Maine lobsters: I read somewhere that they start their lives around Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island or something and then the current brings them down here - so what's the deal? That one time that Ramsey yelled at a guy for selling Canadian "Maine" lobster really made me think.

That being said lobster rolls are tasty but too expensive and stupid, honesty getting a whole lobster seems a lot more economical and tasty. But folks love it, I personally don't get it. It's good but is it worth getting in a big line like it's the Great Fuckin Depression? I don't think so

Pic related, every day in the summer yuppies and fossils wait for twenty years to get a sandwich

Lobsters are largely a pain in the ass to eat besides the usual tail and claws. And the claws aren't even that great.

Not really hard to do the pre-work for your guests. I made a lovely lobster thermidor which required little effort from the diner

Is that in Kittery?
Portsmouth fag reporting

Nah Kennebunkport, but I sometimes hang out at the Press Room on jazz nights (Tuesdays) - shout outs to Friendly Toast for having dank meals

In the midwest, it is an expensive delicacy.

I like it the lobster roll.

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I've lived on the east coast for all my life and I've never even had lobster. It's a meme food on par with bacon. Poor people think it's a delicacy.

You came here from /b/ too soon.

Around Biddeford.

>i just smashed it apart with a soup can

holy shit did your handler take the day off or something?

To some extent I'd feel for him if he worked somewhere that just didn't have nutcrackers.
My mother used to be a casino hostess, she had comp tickets out the ass and I'd usually eat at the buffet once a week. They did lobster on Fridays and they didn't have nutcrackers, and it was a fucking riot to watch people try to eat lobster without an easy way to crack them open. They'd pry them open, bite them open, smash them open, try and fish out bits of meat with knives and forks, all kinds of shit.

I was super fucking drunk and had been on my feet for 17 hours.
We had nut crackers but at that point everything already got locked up, locked myself out of the building so I just staggered home with a lobster in each hand putting on some sort of wasted puppet show to myself.

>$15 for two lobsters
So if they are minimum regulation sized, you are basically selling the meat alone at less than 1/2 of the market value. It's a free for all for the free food after that. Raise the prices, name a charity as the source of the profit, and your customers will be more civil.
>no plates
You need a entire tabletop coated with paper to feast it up, so I'm not surprised people are improvising if you aren't selling something more realistic than a paper plate. There are restaurants that serve BBQ feasts in the lid of a metal garbage can as the platter too.

You had no idea how to eat it? Watch a video, or heck, watch the oldest people in your crowd eat it. People who don't like lobster probably don't eat much seafood day to day really, or it's not fresh lobster that was cooked live. The fatigue you had probably played a part, but the "fun" of lobster eating, crab eating, crawfish eating is akin to shucking boiled peanuts or picking a whole pig....it does take hours...and therefore increases drinking hours and social time. It's kind of fun to work for your food and slow down.

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>>Daily reminder that lobster used to be considered garbage food, literally not suitable for prisoners.
>>ground whole lobster boiled to shit and unseasoned
He's talking about a single moment in history. Food availability and its freshness (it wasn't), not lack of seasoning, however, made lobster the daily food at an institution to the point where it was tortuous to eat the same damn thing all the time. You could say the same thing about clams. There are whole mountains made out of clam shells after shucking as it was the de facto easy food for early americans.
It took a very long time in technology for food to be canned in an acceptable freshness, as well as refrigerated transport, frozen at sea, or else served immediately off the boat, a daily boat, not one that has been days out. It's just better now.

>o what's the deal? That one time that Ramsey yelled at a guy for selling Canadian "Maine" lobster really made me think.
Maine has a coalition of sustainable practices, and tagging a lobster being from Maine means the fishermen who work in that industry participated in ethical and sustainable practices, something that costs them profit. The whole system they operate under was at great cost overall.
Though there are some ethical canadian fisherman I'm sure, the native peoples have a dominion over their country that allows them to ignore common sense, and they do not have to abide by those laws, and so there is a lot of very destructive practices, out of season fishing, fishing beyond your own sustaining tribe and families, and really it's modern day poaching.
The added problem is that the practices affect market value as well as the environment but exponential degrees.

Last year in Nova Scotia, I ate at Stanley's Lobster Pound, in Yarmouth, the only customer there. He sells 100% of his catch from al the Yarmouth boats, the moment it's weighed to S. Korea and there are asians who are stationed to be there 24/7 as buyers, and want more and more. Millions of dollars a week at one processing plant, none of it staying to be consumed anywhere near where it's fished. Great you say, it's a business, but think of the ramifications when the rest of the world has wrecked their industries without regulations and come to get what's left in the world. Then think about supporting the people who are doing it responsibly and it's stamped Maine. Shop with your dollar.

Huh, weird. Bar Harbor area fag reporting in, it's not even close to a ghost town yet...

I don't want to be too specific since I'm a spazz about being recognized. Here practically half the town closes after summer and the place I work at we had a good maybe 40 people out of the usual 400+ in a day after labor day since everyone left.

Take a shower and maybe they will be back.

>eating giant bugs that eat literal shit off the sea floor

It's like scotch, poors need something to show they know what nice things are, but it's inherently unable to live up to its reputation as a poorfag status symbol

Lobster is something I'll eat if it's there, but I certainly have never had a craving for it. It's basically shitty overgrown shrimp

I don't see what all the hype about lobsters are about. They taste bland compared to crabs or shrimp and you don't get that much meat from a lobster.

Boiled or steamed?

Boiled. We have 600 of them right now.

This thread is just making me want to move to Maine even more now fucking hell

I tried lobster for the first time last summer at some place in Portland and now I hate myself for not trying it earlier in my life

Cracking open a gravid lobster is better than Christmas morning. Set the eggs and tomalley aside and eat them with a spoon after the rest of the lobster is eaten.