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Lobsters Are Cannibals - The Lobster Feast



Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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Dice your potatoes and start chopping the onions. Because your lobster for the chowder has entered the kitchen. Even if it hasn’t been brought home from the dock or fish market yet!

The catching of lobsters for America’s thriving seafood market, takes place though the use of lobster “pots” or traps. Lobstermen, who harvest the tasty crustaceans, call the first chamber of the trap the “kitchen” and the rear part where they are unable to escape, the “bedroom”. But you’d never want one in the bedroom at home.

Lobsters are cannibals. The reason you see their claws banded in restaurant tanks, is because in close quarters they will attack each other, and have been known to sever the finger of a careless lobsterman. To prevent them from dining on themselves, bands are placed over each claw with a plier-like device, keeping fingers safe, and claws, closed.

Many people prefer to buy their lobsters already cooked, because of the old tale that lobsters scream when put into boiling water. That however, is a wive’s tale, as well as a lobster tale. Any sound results from shells scraping against the pot, or steam/air escaping from under the shell. Lobsters have no vocal chords, and only the most primitive of cerebral cortex systems. It is theorized that this is how they are able to lose a claw or antennae to a predator, or drop them autonomously, and survive to re-grow another later.

Of course, the quickest way to make a delicious pot of steaming chowder is with canned or frozen lobster meat, often the only kind available to land-locked states. The addition of colorful lobster theme ceramic tableware, table linens and lobster bibs completes the seafood feast.

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