Lobster cheaper than a pack of hotdogs

[seanm123]

History sometimes rhymes.

Lobster prices hit their first peak in the 1920s. When the Depression set in, the luxury lobster market took a dive. Nobody could afford the dish in restaurants, so the once luxury lobster was demoted back to provide a cheap protein for the Military.


http://www.app.com/article/20081209/...0343/1001/NEWS

[Rajiv]

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This reminds me of a satirical play in Hindi by Bharatendu Harishchandra - "Dark City, Bankrupt King" (Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja) written in 1881 -- It was written during the "Long Depression" -- and boy! On rereading it, the play describes today's condition brilliantly including the Bankrupt King, and Homeland Security!

Unfortunately, I can't find an English translation, but I am hoping to get it translated by my father in the not too distant future!

[c1ue]

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Full circle?

http://www.state.me.us/dmr/lobsteringguide.htm

Historically, lobsters were so plentiful that Native Americans used them to fertilize their fields and to bait their hooks for fishing. The first official Maine lobster landings were reported by James Rosier, a member of Captain George Weymouth’s crew. In an account of a voyage to Maine in 1605, Rosier wrote: "And towards night we drew with a small net of twenty fathoms very nigh the shore; we got about thirty very good and great lobsters.... which I omit not to report, because it sheweth how great a profit fishing would be..."
In a sense, the Maine lobster fishery began with Rosier’s account, and it is therefore probably the oldest, continuously operated industry on the North American continent. Actual development of the fishery, of course, did not take place until many years later. In colonial times, lobsters were considered "poverty food." They were harvested by hand along the shoreline and served to prisoners and indentured servants, who exchanged their passage to America for seven years of service to their sponsors. In Massachusetts, some of the servants finally rebelled. They had their contracts state that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than three times a week.

[BiscayneSunrise]

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Full circle?

http://www.state.me.us/dmr/lobsteringguide.htm

Exactly. Just like caviar. Nasty, slimy fish eggs. Yuck. Supreme marketing trickery to serve them with a silver spoon and make the elites bid the price up.

[Jeff]

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Here in Maine, there's a huge push for people to buy and eat lobsters. A few weeks back, this town of about 3,000 year round residents bought 7,000 lobsters on a Saturday at $5 each. They set it up at the HS and you could get cooked or live, same price. I can't remember prices like these since the 70's.

[rj1]

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Well, considering I love almost all seafood, it sounds like a good time for me to go out and buy some lobster.

[c1ue]

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Yes, definitely we all need to berate EJ for failing to predict the deflation in lobster prices.

Obviously all those banksters and their minions would stop eating as much of these ocean-going cockroaches as during the golden years.

Had I been warned to expect a lobster glut, I would have gone out and bought those 2 extra freezers and the extra aquarium...

:eek:

[petertribo]

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Holy Tuna Fish, is nothing sacred?: If Ratings Agencies can rate TRILLION$$$ of Toxics AAA, then why is anything else above fraud:

Seafood fraud is a problem.

And one of the reasons fraud can occur at any point in the seafood supply chain is that the federal agencies that oversee seafood don't work together, says a newly released report from the Government Accountability Office.

Sometimes excessive amounts of water, ice or breading are added to increase weight, sometimes seafood is shipped through an intermediate country to avoid customs duties, and sometimes packages are labeled as containing more seafood than they actually do, called short-weighting, the GAO report says. It was released this month.

The Food and Drug Administration is hearing about species substitution — selling cheap fish, often in fillet form, as more expensive species — "with increasing frequency," says spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek.

"It's an industry-wide issue," says Gavin Gibbons of the industry's National Fisheries Institute.

The report notes that seafood companies routinely receive written solicitations to buy fraudulent products. But the report says that when the National Fisheries Institute forwarded several solicitations to the FDA last year, the agency took no action.

Consumers who called the FDA after buying mislabeled seafood also got nowhere. One consumer complained about frozen shrimp labeled as a product of Mexico that had a second label underneath indicating it was a product of Thailand.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...terstitialskip

I heard a chef the other day say the reason Blackened Fish is so popular is that you can disguise most any kind of Bottom Feeder by blackening and seasoning it.

Who do you Trust on anything you buy nowadays in this age of get it any way you can? The shorter the transaction and the closer you are to the other party is my motto. Works for drywall too!

GAO has no report on what may be inadvertently going into those hot dogs. Don't TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME.

[flintlock]

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Lobster= Cockroach of the sea. People have wised up!

[cjppjc]

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Lobster= Cockroach of the sea. People have wised up!

Ouch. That's not a pretty picture.

[KGW]

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One of the best neighbors I've had was a young Coast Guard fellow. He was a kayak fisherman, and used to set lobster traps off Dana Point in Southern California: he said it was way too expensive to buy, and since he loved going out in his kayak anywho. . .



He shared his catch with me on occasions when it was abundant! Thank you, Pablo!