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Spiny lobsters are noticeably different from their regular restaurant counterparts and easily identified by their lack of claws - regular lobsters have claws on the first 3 sets of legs.

Much ado about nothing. It's not like he killed some dogs, had someone murdered and walked away from it, or was a gang thug that is being charged with murder. What's next, we ban people for stealing laptops, buying rims with illegal money, or shoplifting lobsters?

just got back from Maine.... someone there who has lived their whole lives in Maine says the lobsters are leaving Maine waters, moving North. things are changing

Thanks for the article. It kinda reads like an add for Jennifer Mathers' 'octopuses are smart' book. Her 2008 Consciousness and Cognition paper does a better job at laying out the most cephalopod behaviors impressive behaviors:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810006001504
. Don't get me wrong; I think cephaolopods totally awesome, but I don't see the case for them being cognitive leaps and bounds above other invertebrates. The behaviors that they are capable of are found elsewhere among inverts, yet people (often encouraged by Mathers or her coauthors on that book) seem to imply they are basically eight armed dogs of the sea:

Behavioral conditioning in the lab (which Mathers likes to call "learning") - Bees, butterflies
Moving objects to close off burrows - mantis shrimp
Carrying objects as temporary refuges - crabs
Individual recognition - wasps, lobsters?, mantis shrimp.
Complex spatial navigation - ants, bees.
Learning via observation - I'm not aware of other inverts that do this, but the cephalopod evidence is also pretty weak.

Maybe there are some more recent, and more convincing results?

Besides, the cruelty I am truly disgusted by this on a visceral level. To me lobster is a giant insect and eating it is some Fear Factor shit.

nasty-ass lobster

MMmmmmm... a few things to consider adding to a basic water/oil/savories type stock for anyone not wanting to use meat or chicken:

Tamari, Bragg's All-Purpose Seasoning, or there's this really good brand of vegetarian boullion Better Than Boullion, comes in about 5 varieties, including lobster and shrimp-You might also try some Traditional Molé, the Mexican paste used for tamales and other dishes...

This is a great basic procedural for most broth based, hearty soups-Nice one, oritteropo

Mmmmmm, loves me some Split Pea Soup now that I'm thinking about it....

Gordon Ramsay doesn't understand the meaning of "instant". You can clearly see the lobster moving until he brings the knife threw its face.

As an Atlantic Canadian, I can say I actually winced when he threw that lobster into what-could-have-been unsalted water.

For good lobster you need kosher salt.

For best lobster, you cook it in sea water. Over an open driftwood fire. On a cobblestone beach. With clams steaming open on hot rocks next to the fire.

*cue Homer hungry sound effect.

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Do people realize the whole "if a good guy owns a gun" goes both ways? I love this argument because it's so one sided and utterly blind. I'd like to call it the "dumbass argument".

Let's think for a moment: kids looking for friend suddenly have a man open fire on them, so they all pull out their firearms to protect themselves from the raving lunatic old man who opened fire on them first. Old man is dead, riddled with dozens of bullets. Good guys win. Oh . . . wait. That's not what happened. The good guys didn't have a gun. Or was the old man a good guy? I'm confused now. Who's the good guy?

We had something similar here in Florida where a man was going door to door to sell lobster. Homeowner shot him in the head as he walked away, kept shooting him, and went to reload while an officer was trying to arrest him.

The real issue is the fact this man, and the man in my example, simply thought owning a gun meant they could shoot and kill someone for almost a pathetic reason. Both were "defending my home" against the evils of lobsters and ice skating. I believe this is the movie line of "shoot first, ask questions later." This is what is referring to as the "gun culture."

Yeah, guns (unless it's a colt) don't kill people, people with guns kill people. But there's an old mentality (that's pretty much dead now) that using a gun was cheating. That using a gun wasn't personal, so they resorted to swords and fists. Now, it's so easy to kill a person that it's almost impersonal just to shoot at some brown kid who's "invading" your home by showing up in a car, knocking on the door politely, and asking "Dónde está Paul?"

So anyway, now that we're arguing on the internet . . . .

that lobster looks too big to be flavorfull. The small to medium-sized lobsters are the only ones I like.

(P.S. these are the insects of the ocean.)

OK??? I hope he's.... DELICIOUS.>> ^critical_d:

omg...I hope he's ok.