Lobster Facts
What is the nickname for soft shell lobsters?
Shedders
How do you prepare lobster at home?
Toss into boiling water while alive.
The Maine Lobster Festival has the world's largest what?
The World's Largest Lobster Cooker.
What is a soft shell lobster?
A lobster that has recently molted.
Where is it popular to cut the lobster completely in half while it is alive.
Europe
How much do you need to pay in order to get a folding chair for the headliner show?
$20
What is the Main Lobster's speicies name?
Homarus Americanus.
What parts of the lobster are kept in the European style of cooking?
The claws and the tail.
How much lobster is caught in antcipation for the festival?
Over 25,000 pounds of Maine lobster?
A lobster's sense of touch is activtated through what?
Hundreds of thousands of tiny hairs.
Why does he consider the knife method to not be better than the boil method?
The lobster nervous system is not completely shut down by the knife.
What was the winner of the Amateur Cooking Competition making?
Saffron Lobster Ramekins.
Why was it considered cruel and unsusual punishment to serve lobster multiple times a week in the 1800s?
How do you cook a lobster in a microwave?
Puncture the lobster shell and then cook them alive.
What does David Foster Wallace compare the festival's infliction of suffering to?
A Roman circus or medieval torture-fest.