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Thread: Lobster
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10-16-2019, 10:36 AM #76
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10-16-2019, 10:37 AM #77
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10-16-2019, 10:37 AM #78
Do they put butter and walnuts on lobster in London?
I still call it The Jake.
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10-16-2019, 11:17 AM #79Registered User
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I had abalone once. Heard about it in glowing terms all my life so I was all stoked to give it a try. It was tough, and I wasn’t that impressed. Maybe it was just cooked wrong, but it was a pretty good restaurant otherwise.
I’m glad they are taking steps to save them, though.
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10-16-2019, 11:21 AM #80Registered User
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I think the Jews and Seventh Day Adventists have it right on this one.
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10-16-2019, 11:22 AM #81
Yeah, sharkyness. Some spots the jaws theme got pretty loud inside your head. But every year the kelp killed more guys than sharks.
And to tell the truth, the climb up and down the cliffs were more dangerous than sharks. Harder the spot is to get into, bigger the Abs.
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10-16-2019, 11:25 AM #82
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10-16-2019, 11:36 AM #83
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10-16-2019, 12:17 PM #84
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10-16-2019, 12:26 PM #85
I've been eating Lobster Mac n Cheese at Spur 2x week. Should only be a sometimes treat but its fucking addicting!
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10-16-2019, 12:49 PM #86
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10-16-2019, 01:28 PM #87Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
This is like hanging yourself but the rope breaks. - DTM
Dude Listen to mtm. He's a marriage counselor at burning man. - subtle plague
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10-16-2019, 01:41 PM #88Funky But Chic
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Well spices and grease is a good combo you have to admit.
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10-16-2019, 02:22 PM #89Registered User
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10-16-2019, 02:51 PM #90
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10-16-2019, 03:19 PM #91
Not sure how a restaurant could fuck it up. They must have under pounded it or over cooked it. Done right, abalone is divine.
Obviously, good, live Maine lobsters are a little pricey out here, so I can't say I've ever had that. Anytime I've had it, it's been frozen tails.
I used to stay on my uncle's boat when he would anchor off Catalina Island, right in front of the Casino. The crazy hippy would scuba up and drop into the marine sanctuary there. He'd come up with abs, spiny lobster, speared fish etc... After a trip to the Safeway dumpster to round out the meal, we'd head to the public park, fire up the BBQ and have a feast!
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10-16-2019, 04:31 PM #92
Lobster is delicious. Note that even if you eat live lobster in the fly over states or west it often doesn’t taste the same as fresh in the NE. They are often pretty starved by the time you eat them so the meat is tougher, less flavor, etc. second the comments on many lobster rolls in NE being from frozen and almost all outside NE being frozen and inferior.
Diving for lobsters in Mass was fun, on a good day we’d come home with 10-15 between two of us. We’d eat lobster until we were stuffed then shuck the rest for lobster omelettes.
I never got stone crab, expensive as fuck and it’s good but I’d take dungeonnous crab over stone. Maryland blues are damn good too.
Spiny over Maine, no way. Do you prefer fake maple syrup too?
Fresh Seafood is almost always delicious. Too bad so many fisheries are in danger. Luckily lobster is one of the most healthy fisheries out there. Partly because many lobsters climb out of the pots before they get hauled in. Partly thanks to really good regulation; slot limits, no keeping egg bearing females, and identification of the good breeders (marked with a v-notch in their tail and forbidden to keep).
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10-16-2019, 05:46 PM #93Registered User
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These are the kind of comments that made me shell out the big bucks to order the abalone. I do wish I enjoyed it more, but I was definitely unimpressed.
It was at Scomas in SF. It’s probably a bit of a tourist trap, but I generally like the food I’ve gotten there otherwise over the years. Could be the cook just had a bad night with that dish. I probably should have ordered it again somewhere else, but the fuckers are (or were) expensive. Ah, well.
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10-16-2019, 07:03 PM #94
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10-16-2019, 08:38 PM #96
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10-17-2019, 06:46 AM #97Registered User
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I think that if you don't like lobster it's because you haven't had it really fresh and steamed or grilled. The effort it takes to get the good stuff out of the shell is totally worth it, you just have to have good cold beer with it. Who said no more left around LI was right, I read recently that they're gone from the Sound and up to the traditionally strong RI fishing areas. It's kinda weird that they're strong off NJ and Mass but skip the middle.
Holy crap
Dungee is where it's at! When I was in AK that was the choice over pretty much all other shellfish.
Boil? Hell no! Steam or grill. ONLY. You're right about the Sam Adams though.
No abalone yet for me either but mmmmmmm scallops. Them and shrimp are the only shellfish my wife will eat so we have scallops pretty often.
Just a wee bit o' butter is all that's needed. If it's really fresh it pretty much doesn't even need that.
He gets a lot of things wrong.
Lobster rolls? Meh...
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10-17-2019, 06:47 AM #98Registered User
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I think that if you don't like lobster it's because you haven't had it really fresh and steamed or grilled. The effort it takes to get the good stuff out of the shell is totally worth it, you just have to have good cold beer with it. Who said no more left around LI was right, I read recently that they're gone from the Sound and up to the traditionally strong RI fishing areas. It's kinda weird that they're strong off NJ and Mass but skip the middle.
Holy crap
Dungee is where it's at! When I was in AK that was the choice over pretty much all other shellfish.
Boil? Hell no! Steam or grill. ONLY. You're right about the Sam Adams though.
No abalone yet for me either but mmmmmmm scallops. Them and shrimp are the only shellfish my wife will eat so we have scallops pretty often.
Just a wee bit o' butter is all that's needed. If it's really fresh it pretty much doesn't even need that.
He gets a lot of things wrong.
Lobster rolls? Meh... especially when they have mayo in the mix.
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10-17-2019, 07:51 AM #99Funky But Chic
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The biggest factor (warming water in the Sound is definitely a factor and is probably delaying/preventing a comeback) seems to be nailed down to NY State spraying for mosquitoes on Long Island during the West Nile disease outbreak in 1999-2000.
The pesticide they used (to get rid of a sickness that's generally described as being about as bad as a cold) was an insect larvicide. And as we know, lobsters are bugs. No larvae, no lobsters. There went from over 200 active lobster fishermen to basically zero in the Sound in the space of about 2-3 years. They're starting to make a bit of a comeback towards the eastern end of the Sound, I've read.
edit: forgot to include link: https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/a...ed-3849925.phpLast edited by iceman; 10-17-2019 at 08:23 AM.
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10-17-2019, 08:01 AM #100
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