So, I go to the Keys every year to catch live lobster. We rip their heads off and then freeze them. It sucks either way, but its better then boiling them live.
Plus, lobster is better grilled anyways.
.... yes! Well, I don't rip their heads off, I can't do it - but DH & my Dad do.
eta: Oh, we lobster in the bahamas, where you can spear them - so they are usually already dead when their heads are ripped off.. although I'm sure getting speared isn't all that pleasant either.
I am extremely allergic to shellfish so I've never cooked them, but I have a pet lobster, named Turtle, who is awesome. But he's kind of a dick because he ate all my expensive fish so now I can only buy cheap feeder goldfish and minnows. He is bloodthirsty! That's all I wanted to add. I don't get to talk about him much.
I hope he dispatched your expensive fish in a gentle way before eating them.
He likes to chew through their torso until he gets to their heart. Then moves on to their eyes/brain/et cetera.
So basically he makes you people look like saints.
Do you people go through and systematically smash all of the bugs that will die the next time the exterminator comes? So they don't die slightly more slowly from poison?
Because we're talking about a similar brain function level here.
I've never made lobsters live. I just buy lobster tail. I like someone else do to the killing.
Also, because I picture a scenario where the lobster escapes from its packaging as I drive home and cuts me in the jugular and I die on the road. LOBSTER REVENGE.
I am extremely allergic to shellfish so I've never cooked them, but I have a pet lobster, named Turtle, who is awesome. But he's kind of a dick because he ate all my expensive fish so now I can only buy cheap feeder goldfish and minnows. He is bloodthirsty! That's all I wanted to add. I don't get to talk about him much.
I put the water to boil, and while I'm waiting for it I set the lobsters on the counter and put a little pairing knife on one of their claws attached with a rubber band and face them towards each other and pretend they are about to duel, and once the water is boiling I tell them to put their toys away and in a little whiney voice I make them say, "Oh come on! Just five more minutes?!" and then I say "No." and plunk them into the water.
I am extremely allergic to shellfish so I've never cooked them, but I have a pet lobster, named Turtle, who is awesome. But he's kind of a dick because he ate all my expensive fish so now I can only buy cheap feeder goldfish and minnows. He is bloodthirsty! That's all I wanted to add. I don't get to talk about him much.
PIP
Here's one of him being just generally badass, and one of him eating a fish. He lives in the big ship behind him like a fucking awesome pirate. I love him. He really is my favorite pet!
Oh also- I just googled out of curiosity and apparently he's a crayfish, not a lobster. Woops. Do people care about how they kill them too or do my posts have even less to do with the topic at hand than I originally though?
I feel like the lobster / beef comparison is a poor one.
How do we feel about boiling lobsters vs. swatting mosquitoes?
Do you smash a mosquito between two hands? Use a plastic flyswatter against a hard surface? Is the electric tennis racket more or less humane?
I don't know. I would kill a mosquito because it could potentially bite me/my loved ones and spread some bullshit triple e or whatever. Lobsters aren't going to rush my yard in summer and try to bite us. So I'm having a bit of a hard time with that comparison as well.
All I can add is I hate lobster , my h and his family are so into it I have a hard time eating at the same table as them when eating it. All the cracking and water and green stuff (barf). And it grosses me out they pay so much $ for bottom feeders.
But whatever, I understand all the food was once alive. I wish it were different and I would probably be a vegetarian if I didn't have a big meat eating husband and son and growing toddlers who are underweight and picky, so I can't cut meat from their diets .
I feel like the lobster / beef comparison is a poor one.
How do we feel about boiling lobsters vs. swatting mosquitoes?
Do you smash a mosquito between two hands? Use a plastic flyswatter against a hard surface? Is the electric tennis racket more or less humane?
I don't know. I would kill a mosquito because it could potentially bite me/my loved ones and spread some bullshit triple e or whatever. Lobsters aren't going to rush my yard in summer and try to bite us. So I'm having a bit of a hard time with that comparison as well.
All I can add is I hate lobster , my h and his family are so into it I have a hard time eating at the same table as them when eating it. All the cracking and water and green stuff (barf). And it grosses me out they pay so much $ for bottom feeders.
But whatever, I understand all the food was once alive. I wish it were different and I would probably be a vegetarian if I didn't have a big meat eating husband and son and growing toddlers who are underweight and picky, so I can't cut meat from their diets .
OMG lobsters rushing into your yard to bite you. It's like a scary movie.
Maybe a better comparison would be to roaches or millipedes? They're not actually hurting anything, other than being gross.
Like Lila said, in New England lobsters are called sea bugs. Unlike the brain of a chicken or a cow, a lobster's brain doesn't have any higher functioning. It just controls movement. They thrash around when you pick them up, but I think any bug would do the same. It's not like they're thinking "oh my god, NOOOOOOO" as you lower them toward the boiling water.
Maybe a better comparison would be to roaches or millipedes? They're not actually hurting anything, other than being gross.
Like Lila said, in New England lobsters are called sea bugs. Unlike the brain of a chicken or a cow, a lobster's brain doesn't have any higher functioning. It just controls movement. They thrash around when you pick them up, but I think any bug would do the same. It's not like they're thinking "oh my god, NOOOOOOO" as you lower them toward the boiling water.
Really? Ive lived in New England all my life (Ma) and this post is the first time I've heard the term sea bug. I mean, I agree with the term, I just didn't realize they were called that here. Good, I can mock dh next time by telling him he's bug eating