This story is about how I wanted a pet lobster. I wanted to buy him live from the grocery store and keep him in the bathtub and give him food and toys and watch him grow.
But instead, I ate him. Tyler, my friend in the middle of the picture with his arms crossed, said he would gladly share in this adventure and then told me how a friend of his put a lobster in the bathtub and it died because the water wasn't just right. So, maybe we should just eat them.
"Can we take the elastic bands off and play with it on the kitchen floor before we kill and eat it?" That thought seemed repugnant to him. "No. I mean, you can with yours but I'm not going to with mine."
"And by the way, if you take their bands off and you play with them they are strong enough to cut your finger off. They use those claws to crack open clam shells."
And as Tyler put it, and I agree with him "This is tangible proof that there is a heaven." Mmmm.
"And by the way, if you take their bands off and you play with them they are strong enough to cut your finger off. They use those claws to crack open clam shells."I didn't play with the lobster after all. I ate it like a grown-up with melted garlic butter.
And as Tyler put it, and I agree with him "This is tangible proof that there is a heaven." Mmmm.
2 comments:
Thank you so much for sharing that story. I was dying to know how the lobster fest went. It's too bad that you didn't get to play with it before you ate it, but I think it was a very good idea to keep the rubberbands on its claws considering. I love the pictures by the way. You are awfully brave. Now you'll have to teach me how to cook lobster (and eat it) since I've never done it before. It sure looks like fun though!
Okay, I'll teach you. You get a big pot of boiling water. Then you drop the lobster in. Tyler recommended we drop it in head first which I liked because I believe it died instantly. They turn red instantly and stop moving so I think it was very humane. Then you wait until you can pull the antenae off - that means it is cooked through. We used pliers to crack it open. Then you just pull out the juicy lobster goodness. You can eat it like that or dip it in butter or anything. So each of our lobsters cost $35. And all that had meat were the claws and the mostly the tail. Later we were shopping in Safeway and we saw 4 lobster tails for $17. Hmmm. We looked at each other and silently agreed that next time we want lobster we're going to Safeway.
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