December 9, 2013
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Tank Food
So… I really want to buy a live lobster from the local grocery store. (And by local, I mean ‘Texan’ and no where else). I want to cook it and eat it and it will be happy.
To prepare for my happiness I wanted to look up the cost of the lobsters online. So I googled the store name and then live lobsters. The third or fourth option down the list was titled the following: ”Stop the Selling of Live Lobsters! – The Petition Site.”
I thought to myself: “There is possibly a good reason as to why this person would want my lovely grocery store to stop selling live lobsters,” so I clicked the link and read the petition.
Some people are so dumb.
I do realize that it is fashionable to state the protection of animal rights and I do not believe in testing makeup on rabbits. But, really, said person has never considered where their food came from before writing this singular petition.
But then again, maybe it’s the Chinese in me, where we get all our live market meats in crates the size of shoe boxes and piles upon piles of eatable critters stacked on more piles of eatable critters. The Lobsters in the tanks at the grocery store can swim around, wave their rubberbanded claws, and comment about all the dumb people at the supermarket store that they live their last days in.
The tanks are not in-humane….
Anyway, the petition was set to expire in 2008. It has gleaned 85/2500 signatures. I think it’s safe to say that the lobsters in those tanks won’t be going away any times oon.
okay, yeah, score another point for the pointless blogs.
I went ahead and bought the Lobster anyway. The guy at the grocery store called him Larry and he was about three pounds. I realized when I got home that I didn’t have any lobster hammers or other fun things like that, but I went ahead to cook him anyway.
Would have gone off without a hitch if my lobster buddy didn’t decide to do handstands inside my not-as-big-as-I-thought soup pot. So his tail was sticking out most of the dying portion of the cooking experience. I flipped him over and cooked it the other way around after ward. But as a result, may have over cooked it slightly. It was still tender and juicy. And anyway, I like my shellfish a little tough.
now, the question is: What to do with lobster butter….
