A Box of Lobster
Prior to last week, if anyone had asked me if there was a marked difference between a fresh shipped lobster and those sad little creatures living in an aquarium at your local fish monger, I’d have said probably not… ‘Cause shipped lobsters are a little on the pricey side and 99.999% of the people out there over-cook them – and if you’re just going to stew the giblets out of ’em… why bother. To be fair, I really don’t have a tremendous amount of experience with them (aside from that one night at Holiday Inn University where I ate 12.. yeah 12…) I usually buy them frozen because I’m going to make a salad with them or stuff it in a ravioli. So, last Friday I get this message From Lobsteranywhere.com asking if I would like to try a couple of lobsters. Now… the ever-present cynic in me thought, “hmm… maybe they’re burn off from a large order”… “or a cancellation”… “or any number of _______ reasons”. And, ever since the fiasco with that disgusting …