Traveling in long
lines myth. This myth came from the behavior of the Caribbean Spiny
Lobster that seem to get along quite well together. I have found them
in groups hiding under large rocks in the Caribbean waiting for night.
They do walk along the bottom at night like a conga dance line. Our
real Maine lobsters don't dance. They don't form conga lines. They do however
travel sometimes over several hundred miles in their life. Maine lobster crawl all the way out to the continental shelf in a
thousand feet of water. They can be pulled up from that depth rapidly
with no harm to them because they have no air bladder and are
insensitive to the change of pressure. A huge off shore Maine lobster fishery
exists in New England and the quality is as good as in shore often
better because they don't shed as often.
Dead lobsters are
poisonous myth. I have heard this myth many times. It says that if a
Maine
lobster dies, it instantly becomes poisonous because a
poisonous chemical is released from it's brain and poisons the
meat. Not true, there is no poison. If it were true Maine would be more
sparsely populated than it already is. It only seems that way. I have
cooked and eaten many a dead lobster that perished during the trip down
from Nova Scotia. I'm still here and I have never heard of any one
dying
from a lobster. Rule of thumb is if the lobster has always been
refrigerated and perished with in the last few hours, is hard shelled,
isn't falling apart and doesn't smell; you can cook it
just like you cook a live lobster to see if you can save it. Cook it
for the same amount of time not more. If
it cooks up firm like the others and it tastes good; it's fine to eat.
If it is room temperature, mushy; throw it away. If it passes the cold
test but cooks up
mushy it's because it was a recent shedder and was weak causing it to
die in the first place. Toss it out, they are not worth eating. Use
your judgment, if it is cold and hard shelled, try cooking it. Your
nose will know! This wont happen if you order from NEPCO. Four years
record without a complaint. It's because we switched to only Grade A+
Nova Scotian caught lobsters, years ago. The continuing battle of Maine Lobster vs Canadian Lobster quality has been going on recently. There is truth to the difference depending on the season.
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