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Lobsters are cheap nowadays?

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
a local restaurant is offering TWO 1lb lobsters for $19.95.

makes me wanna goto my seafood market and get a live lobster.

throw it into boiling water for a few min + drawn butter = easy dinner
 
It has been cheap for several years now. I usually buy like 20 of the chicken lobsters and eat til I get sick of it. But some restaurants still haven't got the memo and still try to overcharge like it's premium item. The other night I was at dinner and the asking price of 2lb Caribbean lobster was little over $300. $150 a pound for lobster is absurd anywhere.
 
Eating things that have an exoskeleton is weird.

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That being said... Damn, now I want lobster.
 
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2013/08/26/130826ta_talk_surowiecki

For more than a decade, we’ve been living through a commodity price boom. From oil to wheat and beef, the general rule has been that if you farmed it, caught it, or took it out of the ground you were probably going to make money selling it. But there has been a strange exception: lobster. In 2005, Maine lobster was selling for almost six dollars a pound wholesale. By 2009, it cost just half that, and, in the past couple of summers, huge lobster harvests, believed by some to be a result of global warming, have glutted the market, sending prices tumbling further. This month, lobster off the boat is selling for as low as $2.20 a pound.
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It's a bit more expensive to buy sea cockroaches here in IL, but that's because we are far from the oceans. we can get the Lake Michigan cockroaches pretty cheap though....
 
mmntech said:
Yep. I hate seafood. Lobster, shrimp, shellfish. You're just eating sea bugs. They taste gross too. :thumbsdown:
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Wrong!

1) they taste amazing. 2) I don't care if they are bugs. If cockroaches tasted as good as shrimp, I'd have heard about it and been eating them a long time ago.
 
ponyo said:
It has been cheap for several years now. I usually buy like 20 of the chicken lobsters and eat til I get sick of it. But some restaurants still haven't got the memo and still try to overcharge like it's premium item. The other night I was at dinner and the asking price of 2lb Caribbean lobster was little over $300. $150 a pound for lobster is absurd anywhere.
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It's not that they didnt' get the memo, it's that they pretty much need to keep prices high as consumers regard them as a luxury item. COnsumers would likely abandon lobster in greater numbers than otherwise if the prices started to reflect actual market value.

Also, restaurants are putting lobster into cheaper dishes that they had not offered previously

....Oh, i see KnightBreed posted the article.
 
mmntech said:
Yep. I hate seafood. Lobster, shrimp, shellfish. You're just eating sea bugs. They taste gross too. :thumbsdown:
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It must suck to have never fully developed your taste buds and only enjoy eating hamburgers and hotdogs from the children's menu.
 
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mmntech said:
Yep. I hate seafood. Lobster, shrimp, shellfish. You're just eating sea bugs. They taste gross too. :thumbsdown:
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my sister seems to feel this way, but i love some shellfish

now if only oysters were as cheap as lobsters. damn oysters cost a small fortune around here now
 
xSauronx said:
my sister seems to feel this way, but i love some shellfish

now if only oysters were as cheap as lobsters. damn oysters cost a small fortune around here now
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5 gallon bucket full is only a 2+ mile kayak paddle away for us. Bucket of clams, bucket of oysters, and some much needed exercise.
 
ponyo said:
It must suck to have never fully developed your taste buds and only enjoy eating hamburgers and hotdogs from the children's menu.
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Or he lives in an area where ts hard to get good lobster, like where I am.
Lobster should never have a fishy taste, same with shrimp. 🙁
 
Where is this two lobsters for $19.95 deal? I heard that someone is doing something similar for Connecticut Restaurant Week around where I live, but I didn't catch the name.
 
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