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Iirc that's mostly because they spoiled so quickly. That's part of why it was inhumane to feed them to prisoners (the other part was they just ground up the entire lobster).

In fact, many religious food restrictions are based on foods that could easily make you sick, like pork.

My great grandmother grew up rough during the depression and lived near enough you could fish for lobster.

Her family would bury the lobster shells instead of putting them in the trash because they were ashamed the trash collectors might see they were eating sea bugs.

She still definitely enjoyed lobster. When it was in season it was tradition to have a family reunion for lobster dinner, and she boiled a mean sea bug. But she never could fathom even going to a restaurant to order a lobster - and that some people thought it was fancy would make her head explode

Iirc lobsters can become much much larger than the ones we eat which are lil babies (comparatively speaking). The 2 or so lb lobsters we see are like 5yo but lobsters can live to be 100+ and 15lbs or sumsuch. Maybe the old crotchety ones folks ate back didn't taste as good?

same with quinoa, price went up so much that people started cultivating it outside of its native south America and then the price plummeted so bad that it caused financial devastation among farmers

Have you watched the new Time Bandits show on Apple TV? It's based on the old movie. There's a whole episode where they fall into a 1700s French socialite party where the Earl of Sandwich--or whatever his name is--has rented a pineapple in order to have a pineapple viewing party. The episode was one of the funniest ones this season, highly recommend it.

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Correct, it’s the garbage they store inside their flesh that’s the trash!

Imagine opening up a water filter and giving all that goodness inside a good taste

For real, that big salty lugee is great! Did you know they're actually alive when you eat them? They also don't have pain receptors IIRC so they're a very ethical source of protein. - actual oyster enjoyer

I am not a big fan of raw oysters, but if you bake them in the oven with breadcrumbs, cheese and a sauce, they are delicious

So common, NYC streets were often paved with a mix of oyster shells.

They used to be a really common snack for rich and poor in coastal areas.

The modern equivalent would be a rolling hot dog stand.

Into the brothel makes sense because they have been considered an aphrodisiac.

Granted lobster was considered poor person food because it spoils fast, and in the days of no refrigerators that was a big deal.

I still cry for good ten cent wings back in the early nineties :(

In the 1970s, then-president of Mexico Luis Echeverría visited the remote fishing village of Huatulco, slated for touristic development soon after that.

The people of the village prepared a dinner for the president, in an apologetic tone for being so humble and poor, all they had to offer him was lobster.