Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 14, 2019

Lobsters now are a delicacy. In colonial times, they were considered barely better than trash- and indentured servants who were bound to their master for a service length of certain years were getting it written into their contracts of servitude that they could not be forced to eat lobster more then three times a week.

This same pattern is true of many foods- a Korean friend tells me that ox tail soup was once considered peasant food and is ‘a delicacy’ now as well.

Especially broccoli.

No, with Broccoli you need melted cheese.

And Tabasco.

I’ll eat Alaskan crab, but you couldn’t give me lobster. It’s tastes too metallic for me. :P

I once went to a friend’s house for dinner. I was too embarrassed to tell him I couldn’t stand broccoli. Luckily there was plenty of cheese sauce to cover the broccoli ‘taste’.

Strange, I, my daughters, and my wife all like broccoli.The kids like eating their “trees”.

I like broccoli, I don’t like lobster

Lobster and crab are fine as long as someone else does the work of getting the good stuff out of the shells. I also prefer my fish filleted, and my steaks and poultry cuts boneless. Sloth and gluttony go hand in hand.

Never could understand why anyone would ruin lobster with butter.

It’s like putting A-1® on a good, perfectly cooked steak.

If butter doesn’t make broccoli eatable, try bacon. That should do the trick.

A few weeks back that last line would have read: not kale. How times change.

If food tastes so good, why do we use herbs and spices?

Add lemon juice to that butter. Great on any seafood.

Is this thread a dig at Bush 41?

As with Brussels sprouts, the trick is not to over cook them. If you boil or steam them for about 10 minutes, they are quite tasty. I have, however, tasted sprouts and broccoli that made me wanted to flog the cook and make him eat every last morsel of his “preparation”

Just drink the butter.

Lobster has no flavor to me. It’s just a mouthful of buttery meh.

Hey! Some of us LIKE broccoli!

In the Great Lakes which surround Mallett’s mitten, some folks are wringing their hands about the impending invasion of the Asian Carp. Others are calling it “silverfin” and figuring out how to charge $30 a plate for it at Chez Pretense. (See also: “Patagonian Toothfish.”)

oh and lobsters in same family as scorpions

This explains the appeal of escargot to the French.

She and Dave Barry would get along well.

Lobsters are crustaceans. Bugs are insects of the order Hemiptera. Both are arthropods, however.

Lobster is great as is. But I’ve used this argument about butter+garlic to explain the delicacy of escargot.

Lobsters are not bugs, they’re crustaceans, very crusty crustaceans.

Again, I am (obviously by this comment) not a fan of shellfish. But, insects, lobster, shrimp, etc have a great deal of similarities in terms of body “flesh” that can be consumed. A boiled and peeled giant cockroach would have the same appearance and texture as a shrimp, which is similar in texture to lobster. The preference or repulsion a person may display to one or another is, in reality rather subjective.

I would never begrudge anyone from eating as much lobster as they like and can afford (nor would I begrudge anyone eating their fill of shrimp, cockroaches, etc). But, for me…. I would much rather eat a bathtub sized portion of broccoli, rather than any shellfish. :)

And, I have eaten lobster twice in my younger days when I was a poor graduate student at a catered meeting I was attending…. I thought I had to at least try it the first time, and even though it was not to my liking, I ate it all because I would have felt more self-conscious NOT eating it when all the folks around me were experiencing various levels of joy and rapture while consuming theirs.

I grew up about 15 miles from the coast in New England (Still do), and my grandfather had a fishing boat. We had lobster/clam bakes what seemed like every other weekend. I’ve gotten sick on bad clams, and lobster and now have no appetite for either. I still enjoy fish, squid and octopus, but I pass on the rest of the seafood. When my sister comes back home, I usually host a bake for her, and she brings back a Bison steak, or some nice lamb for me to enjoy. As far as veggies, I haven’t found a real one I didn’t like, except for tofu, tempeh, and “meat substitutes.”

Put enough ketchup on grits and they taste just like steak with too much ketchup.

Actually, at first, white men used lobsters to fertilize their crops.

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Engineers have probably been saying that since the Wright Brothers turned their attention to their lesser known project, the flying tool box, but I think it was the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom, a.k.a. The Lead Sled, that really popularized the notion. It had all the glide characteristics of, well, anything that was already going 300 knots, but it could go more than twice the speed of sound. So I guess now we’ll never know what fuel disappearing that fast sounds like.

Anyway, now that we’ve got that cleared up, we can go ahead with the equation, where lobster is to F-4 as butter is to jet fuel, an emergency crustacean with no dairy fats is not to be attempted.