Maybe that should be moron red? No,never mind pardon the poor attempt at a pun.
Lobsters in the ocean, or live in a tank are not red but brown,rarely there are blue and yellow lobsters though they don't last long in their natural habitat due to their color making them more noticeable to predators. Today lobster is considered a delicacy,but that wasn't always true. In colonial North America lobster was mostly fed to pigs,cows,and goats,the shells were ground up and spread on the ground as fertilizer. The Indians would use them to bait their hooks and only ate lobster when they caught nothing else. Irish immigrants ate lobster as it was affordable. Lobster was commonly fed to the servants with little else. One group of servants brought their masters to court and were awarded a judgement protecting them from eating it no more than three times a week.
At this point I became curious how times had changed so drastically in relation to the desirability of lobster...clever advertising? No,it comes more under supply and demand. The abundance of lobster made it unwanted. They could be caught by children with no more than a fishhook tied to a stick. It wasn't until the late 1800's that lobster began its climb to popularity,mostly because it was getting harder to come by. Kind of hard to picture considering today's lobster prices,isn't it?
Lobsters in the ocean, or live in a tank are not red but brown,rarely there are blue and yellow lobsters though they don't last long in their natural habitat due to their color making them more noticeable to predators. Today lobster is considered a delicacy,but that wasn't always true. In colonial North America lobster was mostly fed to pigs,cows,and goats,the shells were ground up and spread on the ground as fertilizer. The Indians would use them to bait their hooks and only ate lobster when they caught nothing else. Irish immigrants ate lobster as it was affordable. Lobster was commonly fed to the servants with little else. One group of servants brought their masters to court and were awarded a judgement protecting them from eating it no more than three times a week.
At this point I became curious how times had changed so drastically in relation to the desirability of lobster...clever advertising? No,it comes more under supply and demand. The abundance of lobster made it unwanted. They could be caught by children with no more than a fishhook tied to a stick. It wasn't until the late 1800's that lobster began its climb to popularity,mostly because it was getting harder to come by. Kind of hard to picture considering today's lobster prices,isn't it?
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