Seriously, People, Don't Trust Cafeteria Lobster
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 4:11PM
Hungry Sam in America, experiences, rants, seafood, shellfish, teaching moments
Lobster Bib.

I'm going to try hard to get through this post without cursing.

Seriously, people, don't trust cafeteria lobster.

Just...don't. So, for example, if you show up to the cafeteria at the National Education Association and see they're serving a lobster lunch for $12.95, just walk away.

They ARE pretty puny lobsters.

Don't be enticed by the delicious scent of steamed shellfish, or distracted by the sunlight glinting off the drawn butter. Don't mull over the inevitable side dishes of warm, crusty bread rolls and tangy cole slaw. Don't think of lobster feasts past, your youth in Maine, or learning to pick a lobster clean from your grandfather.

 

Instead, ask yourself the following questions: 

Here's what you should do:

Yes, I know it's fuzzy. But so am I, a bit.

FINAL THOUGHT: They were giving people CRAB MALLETS with the lobsters. PEOPLE.

 

Seriously, PEOPLE.

I cannot be more emphatic.

You do NOT -- I repeat, you do NOT -- use CRAB MALLETS for LOBSTERS.

You use your hands, like an American. Or, you use a lobster cracker.

But not a crab mallet.

This message brought to you by America and that eagle, which is not a bald eagle, which is weird.

 

 

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