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Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 10:53AM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It's amazing that anyone can buy a lobster and just boil the thing at their own will
dumb
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 10:56AM - in reply to aqwaawfawqqfw Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?
blahhhhhh
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 10:59AM - in reply to dumb Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

dumb wrote:

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?


Why do you care how other people care how people kill and eat it?
aqwaawfawqqfw
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 10:59AM - in reply to dumb Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

dumb wrote:

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?


I don't anymore after reading your post. carry on
Yatha Sidrha
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:00AM - in reply to aqwaawfawqqfw Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It's quite easy. And in case you forgot, boiling humans has been quite popular through the ages, but did anybody cry for them.

This does remind me of the brilliant David Foster Wallace essay that Gourmet magazine commissioned him to write about a lobster festival. Gourmet paid him to hype the event. Instead, Wallace eviscerates the practice of boiling lobster in his own inimitable style. I would have love to have been a fly on a wall when the editor saw the finished piece and said, 'what is this sh*t'!

Anyway, it's classic and a great read. It's a pity the author is gone. Still trying to get through his 'Infinite Jest' though.

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster
Not too shabby
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:14AM - in reply to Yatha Sidrha Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Come on guys...Consider the lobster!
Took me a while
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:15AM - in reply to Yatha Sidrha Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Yatha Sidrha wrote:

Still trying to get through his 'Infinite Jest' though.




Good luck...seriously. It's a toughy
hks321
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:46AM - in reply to aqwaawfawqqfw Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
You can halve it and grill it on BBQ with some flavored butter. Yummy! Great pre-race meal!
rocklobster
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:49AM - in reply to aqwaawfawqqfw Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water
dontflushwhileyousit
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:52AM - in reply to Yatha Sidrha Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Yatha Sidrha wrote:

It's quite easy. And in case you forgot, boiling humans has been quite popular through the ages, but did anybody cry for them.

This does remind me of the brilliant David Foster Wallace essay that Gourmet magazine commissioned him to write about a lobster festival. Gourmet paid him to hype the event. Instead, Wallace eviscerates the practice of boiling lobster in his own inimitable style. I would have love to have been a fly on a wall when the editor saw the finished piece and said, 'what is this sh*t'!

Anyway, it's classic and a great read. It's a pity the author is gone. Still trying to get through his 'Infinite Jest' though.

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster


Thanks for the link. This essay is brilliant (although maybe a tad long)
Alice Liddell
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 11:57AM - in reply to aqwaawfawqqfw Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
'Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare
"You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair."
As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose
Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark;
But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,
His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.

I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie:
The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon;
While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
And concluded the banquet by ---
Bubo
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:03PM - in reply to Alice Liddell Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
--- EATING THE OWL?!?!?!

That's horrible and inhumane!!!!!
25 sitting on 25 mil
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:11PM - in reply to dumb Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It is illegal to boil lobsters in some places like Reggio Emilia, Italy



dumb wrote:

it's an arthropod with nothing that resembles a centralized brain. why do you care how people kill and eat it?
Mr. Obvious
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:14PM - in reply to rocklobster Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

rocklobster wrote:

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water


You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?
Same Difference
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:15PM - in reply to 25 sitting on 25 mil Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
It's illegal to eat Parmesan cheese in Maine.
dumb
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:34PM - in reply to Mr. Obvious Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Mr. Obvious wrote:
You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?


+1
Answerer of Questions
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:35PM - in reply to Mr. Obvious Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Mr. Obvious wrote:

[quote]rocklobster wrote:

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water


You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?[/quote]

Just a guess, but I'd guess he thinks it is OK no matter how you do it and that this whole thread is just plain silly.
skwilli
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:43PM - in reply to aqwaawfawqqfw Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Insects of the Seas.
No Way
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:44PM - in reply to Answerer of Questions Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Any animal that you eat gets killed at some point. What's the difference? I used to have a lot of trouble letting the fish I caught suffocate. Boiling seems pretty humane compared to that.
LacrossePlayer
RE: Boiling live lobster: how are people legally allowed to do this? 4/23/2012 12:45PM - in reply to Mr. Obvious Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Mr. Obvious wrote:

[quote]rocklobster wrote:

I always let them sit in wine for awhile before transfering to the boiling water


You think getting it drunk first makes it OK?[/quote]

It consented. If the lobster didn't want to be eaten, it wouldn't have been so tasty. It deserved to be eaten walking around that deliciously.
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