On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:53:46 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:37:40 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:58:57 -0500, Rob wrote:

NowWhat wrote:

Kids (and some adults) get it in their heads that they don't like
something that they've never tried. My uncle was like that. Never ate a
shrimp in his life. Why? He was an old potato farmer, and said he wasn't
eating anything that looked like a potato grub!


That's too bad. He missed a lot!


Not sure. Never had lobster, but I'm not missing it a bit.
I sure like shrimp. But the shrimp you get now doesn't seem as good
as the shrimp of a few decades back. Farm shrimp?
Seems both texture and taste is different.

--Vic




You've never had lobster?? Gasp...

Been a choice on the menu plenty of times at "events."
Always chose steak. Probably always will take a good steak over
lobster.
And I certainly wouldn't pay the crazy prices they want for it.
Isn't lobster dipped in butter to make it palatable?
I've had snails once, called escargot on the menu of course.
All garlic-ed up to make them taste other than slime.
Don't want a steak that needs steak sauce either.
I put a little A1 on it once in a great while anyway, because I just
want to taste some A1.
Cracking crab legs is nonsense too. More calories lost than gained.
Unless you dip it in butter. That'll fatten it up.
I do like crabcakes - when somebody else gets the meat from the crab.
But I admit crab and lobster have more snob value than a good steak.
Nothing against lobster, mind you. Golfers probably eat a lot of it.
You know, guys like O.J. Simpson, Tiger Woods, etc.

--Vic

Well, you oughta try one, just for the hell of it. I'd never buy one
in a restaurant, unless my wife wanted it, but when in Maine there are
roadside stands that sell it. Not a bad price then, and those folks
know what they're doing. Butter isn't necessary. Lobster's pretty good
without it.
--

John H