Happy National Lobster Day! Yay or Nay?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

😏

[hedda_foil]

1. Yez, yes, YESSSSSSS!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. 😋

[dameatball]

2. Yay of course!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. 😋

[Cirque du So-What]

3. There's my plate!

I don't know what happened to everyone else's lobster tail

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. 😋😋😋😋

[geardaddy]

7. Ayuh!

I love lobstah!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. 😋

[DFW]

9. Give me exactly one month.............

And I'll be in a rented house at the end of a bumpy, secluded road near the outer tip of Cape Cod.

Mature lobsters weighing 1 kilo or more would be well advised to keep their distance.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. 😋

[DFW]

11. We always pick one night, when we have the most guests at the house

We then pull the cork on the budget, and buy up a few pounds of fresh scallops, giant shrimp and lobster tail meat, and I make up a big Indian curry with Major Grey mango chutney. My wife prepares the rice and the salad(s) and when we are all gorged, out comes the fresh fruit and about 6 flavors of local ice cream.

Anyone on a diet is advised not to cross the Sagamore Bridge.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Sagamore Bridge eh! 😏

[DFW]

13. Fair warning! n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. I'll follow my nose! 😋

[DFW]

15. Then you can't miss us, no matter how secluded we'll be

You can smell the curry all the way to Bourne........

[elleng]

19. OH RIGHT, your annual escape!

Wouldn't those mature lobsters be a bit 'chewy?' Let us know, please!

[DFW]

20. No, actually, they aren't.

It doesn't work with crustaceans the same way it works with mammals. In the local shops, you can always find a few ten or twelve pound lobsters someone has caught, and they seem to taste just as good as the smaller ones.

We are HOPING we can make our annual escape. My wife's mom is in poor health, and the care she was give at her local hospital was close to third world. A week ago, my wife heard her breathing and it sounded wrong. She asked if her mother might not have pneumonia. The doctor said no way. My wife insisted on a test. The finally did a test, and sure enough, her mom was very ill with pneumonia. Her infection was so widespread, she had practically fallen into delirium. Her mom was moved to intensive care with a whole new set of doctors, and seems better, but is now wrestling with kidney failure. She is 91, and he eyesight is just about gone. She said she does not want dialysis. She just wants to see her grandchildren one more time (she was just here ten days ago) and hold her great-grandchild (my daughter is planning to go up there in a few days so she can). She is then content to let nature take its course. If she gets better, then so be it, and if not, she says half a life is worse than one. She has survived a lot, lost her husband to Parkinson's twenty years ago, and lost her only son, my wife's brother, to cancer. She has seen her own grandchildren grow up into three fabulous young women. Her daughter, my wife, is still considered a marvel by her town when she visits (I can confirm that).

Anyway, we are hoping she is well enough so that we both can leave for Boston with a clear conscience!

[elleng]

21. Oh, I too hope she improves enough.

Must say I'm surprised about the care she was given, and glad your wife was able to diagnose and have her moved.

[DFW]

22. Not all hospitals in Germany are staffed with top medical people

This is out in the country, and the medical staff in the main wing has a lot of disinterested staff and doctors who are nowhere to be found except for ten seconds of consultation during required rounds, which they consider, along with their patients, to be more of a nuisance than their calling.

Even here in or near the big city, my wife once gave an earful to a Polish nurse who came to give her some pills during a hospital stay. My wife asked what the pills were for, and the nurse replied that she didn't need to know what they were for, just take them. As misdiagnoses happen everywhere, my wife blew up at the nurse, and told her she wasn't taking any pills unless she knew what they were for.

[sheshe2]

51. You going to be in Truro?

Love that place.

[DFW]

53. We will, indeed!

In a secluded house at the end of a nasty unpaved road, overlooking the water.

[sheshe2]

62. We had a family cottage on Beach Point.

On the water. I spent every summer there from birth to my teens. Have lots of fun and food.

[DFW]

63. Thanks, we intend to!

Beach point is north of where we are. We are down at the end of an obscure road just past the big pizzeria and quilt shop. I tried to put the address into my wife's ESTA renewal, and Homeland "Security's" website rejected the application due to there being "no such address."

Trump opponents take notice--good place to hide out if the government thinks the address doesn't even exist! Beware, though--if Pruitt stays on at EPA too much longer, there will indeed be no more such address, as it will be under water!

[LeftInTX]

16. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. 😋

[smirkymonkey]

18. YAY!!

I am on a train on my way up to Maine right now! Looking forward to some lobster this weekend! I can't get enough seafood! I wish it wasn't so expensive.

[DFW]

23. It's going to get more expensive, I've got news for you

Global overfishing, warming of the oceans and plastic pollution of the seas is going to make eating fish a near luxury in 30 years, maybe sooner. Enjoy it while you can!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. I was in Bar Harbor last May. $24.00 for a lobster roll the size of a hot dog. I took a pass!

[smirkymonkey]

25. We usually buy the lobsters and cook it at home, it's much cheaper that way.

My sister and her husband have some friends who own a restaurant and they can usually hook them up with some pretty good deals. It's such a ripoff to order it in a restaurant. Especially in tourist areas.

[sheshe2]

52. I get them from the market and they will steam them.

I refused to do it myself. I also will not eat them in a restaurant. When I have lobster I am in it up to my elbows. There is nothing left but shells.

Ummm

[beachbum bob]

26. with China tariffs going lobster imports...probably not too happy of day for US lobster fishermen

that make it cheaper for us in the long run until enough lobster fisherman go bankrupt

[Kittycow]

33. I'd like to be a fly on the wall ...

to hear what trump supporters who harvest/sell lobster are saying among themselves right now.

Canadian fisherman are probably pretty gleeful!

ETA: Susan Collins is very concerned.

[Xolodno]

46. Ten bucks says...

...they think it will turn out alright in the end and will even be better for them. They just have to deal with some "temporary" pain. That is, until they find themselves unemployed/out of business/bankrupt.

Nothing brings people to their senses when they can't provide and find out the safety nets to help along have been gutted because of the very people they voted in.

[MuseRider]

27. Veggie here so nope but I used to, mmmmmm.

This never fails to crack me up.

[zanana1]

28. Okay; I'll be the ogre.

I don't care for lobster; I just don't think it tastes like much of anything. It's alot like shrimp to me. Maybe there's something wrong with my taste buds. I also think of them as giant bugs.

[Kittycow]

30. "... think of them as giant bugs".

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Sea roaches! 😋

[Kittycow]

29. I've actually only had lobster once, forty years ago.

I don't remember much about it except it was at a restaurant.

I always went for crawdads, the "poor man's lobster", which we recently discussed here

I think if I lived where fresh lobster was readily available, I would give it a whirl!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. 😋

[democratisphere]

31. How would YOU like to be put in a pot of boiling hot water while

YOU were still alive?! Humans are barbaric!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. The lesson kids is, don't be a lobster!

[democratisphere]

40. It if you are a lobster, stay away from humans and their traps

at all costs; your life depends on it!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. You may want to repost this in the crustaceans group! 👍🏻

[democratisphere]

44. Probably more appropriate to repost in the "Law and Order: Crustacean Victims Unit" Group.

How many crustaceans must die before justice is served?!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. No Crustaceans No Peace!

[LSFL]

32. Giant sea bugs?

I am in!

Fun fact.

Lobster used to be considered garbage and was commonly fed to slaves.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. True! 😋

[smirkymonkey]

49. Yes, they don't know how good they had it!

Lobster is delicious!

[NBachers]

34. Giant water insects boiled alive & eaten. Who couldn't get behind that? How'd you like to be boiled?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. I do enjoy a hot shower followed by a massage!

[csziggy]

41. Yeah! I missed it so tomorrow I will fix lobster ravioli

Yum!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. Oh wow! 😋

[Duppers]

47. The hubs has promised me a trip to Maine

For the last 10 yrs. He's a workaholic who is finally retiring this August at the age of 75. I'm holding him to that trip.

Oh, it's just for the "cheap" lobster. Guess we've missed that boat. Overfishing and global warming have taken their toll.

I LOVE lobster.

❤

[Floyd R. Turbo]

48. 😋

[smirkymonkey]

50. Where in Maine are you planning to go?

It is a beautiful state. Especially the coast. I was just there this weekend visiting my sister. I hope you finally get your trip!

[Duppers]

56. Thank you!!

We'll fly (or drive from the Hampton Roads area of Va) to Portland and then from there drive up the coast to Bar Harbor. Hubs has been to conferences there before.

I hope to stuff myself full of fresh lobster.

Where is your sis?

[smirkymonkey]

60. Sounds like a great time!

My sister is in Kennebunk. It's less than 2 hours from Boston so it's pretty convenient.

[DFW]

54. Don't miss Acadia National Park!

Mt. Desert Island, Bar Harbor. Beautiful place!

[Duppers]

57. We won't, thanks, DFW.

My mother told me about those some years ago and how much she enjoyed the area. "You must go," she said.
(Those were her travel/pre-dementia years. She's 93 now.)

[DFW]

58. The scenery is so impressive

I wish I remembered my pre-dementia years, but I'm afraid there haven't been any. That's why I keep traveling.

[Duppers]

59. You silly guy. 😋

I'm the one with brain fog.

[IrishEyes]

55. Definitely a no for me. I guess I'm in the minority.

I really can't stand the taste of lobster. You guys enjoy it though. You can have my portion.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

61. Thank you! 😋