As our Aussie friends might say......"Ats one 'ell of a big prawn, mate....."
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OK now for my question about Prawns or Crayfish.
When I eat at a Chinese Buffet there are tons of little lobsters or what ever one calls them.
So as a Yankee I have never been raised or lived in any area these little things were ate.
How do people go about it, are they shelled or eaten shell and all.?
We do not eat the brain or head of a lobster although some Asians will eat the eyes.
Maine lobster by tradition comes with melted butter and lemon. Snow crab and King crab is treated the same way.
I have never eaten crab as they are considered vermin inside lobster pots and thrown back into the water. The blue crab we caught in VA. we sold or gave away as it took a wash tub full to get enough to feed 3 people.
We had been gone from home for some years and the first thing on my mind coming back was a Maine Lobster. Had been 7-9 years since I had eaten one, my younger kids never.
My Dad, as it was winter had pulled his traps so we had to go to a restaurant for the dinner.
My 10 year old had vague memory's of lobsters but the 7, 4, and 3 had no idea what one was.
I was all excited about the meal, I had told the kids about lobsters and how at their age I had been aboard family boat and caught them.
As the whole family of 4 generations sat at the table at a fine dining establishment the meal was brought to us.-----the 3 youngest kids freaked out. The oldest sat poking the shell with her fork and asked if she could have a hamburger.
What a mess that was, the youngest went nuts, so we had their lobsters bagged to take home and ordered them all the good old hamburger with fries.
Unfortunately that was not the end of a happy meal, as we dismantled the beasts, ripping off claws and tails the kids got even more upset when we ate the flesh. To put it mildly they became terrified of the salt water that these THINGS lived in not to mention Sharks.
Fast forward a few decades, a call for Clam and Lobster bake brings them on the run, they did adjust after months of nightmares and love the beach and swimming in the ocean. Their kids have no problem as they were raised on that food and playing in the surf.
This is so funny, one of the few places that Wolfe fish live is just 15 miles away from us in York Maine. Anyone ever see one of them brutes.? Hands down they are Fuggly Ugly, I was almost 30 years old before I saw one and thought the fish was the result of the radio active water outside the Nuke plant down river.--- Yah--Sparkeys home away from home.
