Submitted by Bigchungus-vore t3_10e3lqw in Maine
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illevirjd t1_j4qb1e3 wrote
They also ground the whole thing up with the shell and all the guts, can’t imagine that being too appetizing
RealMainer t1_j4qcnqw wrote
Sounds gross but with the right cook that could make a delightful bisque!
I've only been to jail once (failure to show up in court over a fine I forgot about) but I had some really good food while there. Just depends who's on kitchen duty.
terminally_cool t1_j4qnvas wrote
Time changes everything. We used to have lobsters washed up on the shore and now we have used syringes on the shore.
liyochka t1_j4q4yg4 wrote
And if you have to eat it plain.
Shilo788 t1_j4shcl3 wrote
They used to use them as fertilizer too, I read.
terminally_cool t1_j4qnwzi wrote
Time changes everything. We used to have lobsters washed up on the shore and now we have used syringes on the shore.
Menckenlover t1_j4rf18y wrote
I'm not trying to troll anyone, but I have seen conflicting reports and I'm genuinely curious how this evolved. The contrary reports all say that there is no primary source material.
If you Google it, there are plenty of sites supporting the idea. Does anyone know what the deal is?
RealMainer t1_j4ri8lz wrote
That's certainly some food for thought, however the fact is that lobster was very plentiful at one point and now it's considered an expensive food. If early colonists were indeed subsisting off lobsters for a time as the article suggests, then that would certainly give credence to it being such a readily available food that people would get sick of it, and eventually only the people who couldn't afford an alternative might eat it, however even that doesn't make much sense, because if they could get lobster then they would also have access to crab, tons of shellfish as well as regular fish which even now are quite easy to gather or catch year round.
On a side note I have always been a bit perplexed at how many people died in the early colonies from starvation. It's the middle of January right now and I can easily go the coast and gather mussels, fish for Pollock and even grabs still are plentiful (which would have been even more plentiful back then). I suppose they just didn't have the knowledge of readily available food back then.
geneticswag t1_j4q7om0 wrote
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Good_Human_Bot_v2 t1_j4q7prg wrote
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PNWMunky t1_j4p42p5 wrote
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steelymouthtrout t1_j4qcus2 wrote
Old time Mainers that live on the coast typically absolutely despise lobster because they ate so much of it as children because it was plentiful and cheap.
My friend's mom in Jonesport cooked me up some scallops back in the '90s that were absolutely enormous and right off the boat.
I don't remember her having any of them.
terminally_cool t1_j4qo3lk wrote
Jonesport is great, I used to buy lobsters off of a one armed lobsterman there.
Tronbronson t1_j4ptp1a wrote
Finally. Maine memes that hit.
Freeman0032 t1_j4r180s wrote
I dont understand what this meme is communicating,
DidDunMegasploded t1_j4s424c wrote
It's a common meme format. Gonna try and word it in a way that I'm familiar with.
Basically, a person (a sojak-type character or wojak or whatever the fuck it's called) says to something, "Thank you for changing my life," stating that they enjoy the object or character in question.
The object or character then responds with some form of "I'm literally X". For example, Spongebob would respond with "I'm literally a sponge", and so on. Because y'know, it's ridiculous to love a sponge and Spongebob doesn't see anything fantastical about a person thinking he changed their life.
OP got the meme here half-right, but reworked the second half so it's not just "I'm literally a lobster". The lobster responds with "They used to serve me to prisoners" so the state would probably think "...oh".
Hopefully this clears things up some.
MuForceShoelace t1_j4qqla2 wrote
It's not like they were eating fine lobsters in prisons.
You know how you go in the supermarket and literally every food is like, dead and cut up and in a package? Vegetable, meat, fish, bread, whatever? Then there is just this one weird tank of living lobsters you buy?
Supermarkets don't just run an aquarium because it's fun or something, they spend the money to do it because lobster rots basically instantly when it dies. Within an hour it goes rancid. You have to buy it live and kill it right before eating. Usually minutes.
Prisoner weren't getting carefully preserved lobsters carefully hand delivered from the sea in climate controlled tanks, prisoners were fed garbage soup that smelled like an asshole from lobstermeat that quickly liquifies into putrid bacterial mush.
RealMainer t1_j4q4f3s wrote
Because it was cheap, not because it was bad. Lobsters used to be so plentiful they would wash up on the shore and you could fill a bucket just by walking the beach in the morning.
Of course even lobster will start to taste bad if you have to eat it every other meal.