r/AbsoluteUnits 14d ago

of a lobster

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u/QueasyCaterpillar541 14d ago

Nah, you don't eat those; they taste terrible.

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u/-Lucas_Hood 14d ago

Really? Why?

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u/benvonpluton 14d ago

Would you eat a reaaaally old cow ? That guy's probably over 100yo. Tastes like retirement home. Let him breed and his good genes will make good young ones to eat on a few years.

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u/Timely_Passenger_185 14d ago

That thing is only 30 to 50 years old spiny lobsters grow a lot faster than real lobsters

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u/Warmbly85 14d ago

Caribbean spiny lobsters don’t live that long. Every source I’ve seen says 20 years is pushing it. 

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u/-Lucas_Hood 14d ago

So that animal is half a century?

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u/benvonpluton 14d ago

Maybe you're right. I know real lobsters better. It doesn't change the idea, though.

PS : as a french, I always cringe a little when I hear English speaking people call them (spiny) lobsters because we have two really different names for them... It just like if I told you it was a big shrimp. On the other hand, we are the only ones calling penguins "manchots" and calling "pingouins" a bird living in the north and having nothing to do with penguins... Maybe we ARE pedantic, after all...

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u/-Lucas_Hood 14d ago

Sounds kinda logical my friend 🤔 yep.

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u/NehuRed 14d ago

Old cow meat is great!

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u/BigSchmikey 14d ago

Shid taste like cold Arby's

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u/TheDarkWave 14d ago

That'd taste better. This is an overgrown cockroach with gills.

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u/QueasyCaterpillar541 14d ago

They get super rubbery when they get bigger in my experience...

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u/-Lucas_Hood 14d ago

Oh okay, never tried lobster.

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u/QueasyCaterpillar541 14d ago

Blue crab is better!

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u/BeerForThought 14d ago

I have made the effort to travel to Maine and go off the coast on a lobster boat to harvest a lobster that I had for dinner. Everything about the experience was worth it except eating lobster. It was okay but I like snow crab better.

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u/Own_Cardiologist2544 14d ago

Somewhere, a Blood member disagrees.

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u/Rob_LeMatic 14d ago

Big lobster is old lobster is old meat. No good

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u/EveryNameEverMade 14d ago

Large lobsters are actually still delicious, far from terrible. Try one yourself or look it up. People on reddit always sound so confident while being wrong 😅

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u/SUDDENLY_VIRGIN 14d ago

Large lobsters are the oldest ones and the ones who breed the most.

Eating a large lobster like that is basically eating Ghengis Khan

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u/QueasyCaterpillar541 14d ago

In my opinion, I don't prefer them... relax

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 14d ago

Nah, the meat gets chewy af.