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(16,379 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)dameatball
(7,411 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,043 posts)I don't know what happened to everyone else's lobster tail
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)geardaddy
(24,936 posts)I love lobstah!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)DFW
(54,527 posts)And I'll be in a rented house at the end of a bumpy, secluded road near the outer tip of Cape Cod.
Mature lobsters weighing 1 kilo or more would be well advised to keep their distance.
DFW
(54,527 posts)We then pull the cork on the budget, and buy up a few pounds of fresh scallops, giant shrimp and lobster tail meat, and I make up a big Indian curry with Major Grey mango chutney. My wife prepares the rice and the salad(s) and when we are all gorged, out comes the fresh fruit and about 6 flavors of local ice cream.
Anyone on a diet is advised not to cross the Sagamore Bridge.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)DFW
(54,527 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)DFW
(54,527 posts)You can smell the curry all the way to Bourne........
elleng
(131,460 posts)Wouldn't those mature lobsters be a bit 'chewy?' Let us know, please!
DFW
(54,527 posts)It doesn't work with crustaceans the same way it works with mammals. In the local shops, you can always find a few ten or twelve pound lobsters someone has caught, and they seem to taste just as good as the smaller ones.
We are HOPING we can make our annual escape. My wife's mom is in poor health, and the care she was give at her local hospital was close to third world. A week ago, my wife heard her breathing and it sounded wrong. She asked if her mother might not have pneumonia. The doctor said no way. My wife insisted on a test. The finally did a test, and sure enough, her mom was very ill with pneumonia. Her infection was so widespread, she had practically fallen into delirium. Her mom was moved to intensive care with a whole new set of doctors, and seems better, but is now wrestling with kidney failure. She is 91, and he eyesight is just about gone. She said she does not want dialysis. She just wants to see her grandchildren one more time (she was just here ten days ago) and hold her great-grandchild (my daughter is planning to go up there in a few days so she can). She is then content to let nature take its course. If she gets better, then so be it, and if not, she says half a life is worse than one. She has survived a lot, lost her husband to Parkinson's twenty years ago, and lost her only son, my wife's brother, to cancer. She has seen her own grandchildren grow up into three fabulous young women. Her daughter, my wife, is still considered a marvel by her town when she visits (I can confirm that).
Anyway, we are hoping she is well enough so that we both can leave for Boston with a clear conscience!
elleng
(131,460 posts)Must say I'm surprised about the care she was given, and glad your wife was able to diagnose and have her moved.
DFW
(54,527 posts)This is out in the country, and the medical staff in the main wing has a lot of disinterested staff and doctors who are nowhere to be found except for ten seconds of consultation during required rounds, which they consider, along with their patients, to be more of a nuisance than their calling.
Even here in or near the big city, my wife once gave an earful to a Polish nurse who came to give her some pills during a hospital stay. My wife asked what the pills were for, and the nurse replied that she didn't need to know what they were for, just take them. As misdiagnoses happen everywhere, my wife blew up at the nurse, and told her she wasn't taking any pills unless she knew what they were for.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)Love that place.
DFW
(54,527 posts)In a secluded house at the end of a nasty unpaved road, overlooking the water.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)On the water. I spent every summer there from birth to my teens. Have lots of fun and food.
DFW
(54,527 posts)Beach point is north of where we are. We are down at the end of an obscure road just past the big pizzeria and quilt shop. I tried to put the address into my wife's ESTA renewal, and Homeland "Security's" website rejected the application due to there being "no such address."
Trump opponents take notice--good place to hide out if the government thinks the address doesn't even exist! Beware, though--if Pruitt stays on at EPA too much longer, there will indeed be no more such address, as it will be under water!
LeftInTX
(25,832 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am on a train on my way up to Maine right now! Looking forward to some lobster this weekend! I can't get enough seafood! I wish it wasn't so expensive.
DFW
(54,527 posts)Global overfishing, warming of the oceans and plastic pollution of the seas is going to make eating fish a near luxury in 30 years, maybe sooner. Enjoy it while you can!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)My sister and her husband have some friends who own a restaurant and they can usually hook them up with some pretty good deals. It's such a ripoff to order it in a restaurant. Especially in tourist areas.
sheshe2
(84,102 posts)I refused to do it myself. I also will not eat them in a restaurant. When I have lobster I am in it up to my elbows. There is nothing left but shells.
Ummm
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)that make it cheaper for us in the long run until enough lobster fisherman go bankrupt
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)to hear what trump supporters who harvest/sell lobster are saying among themselves right now.
Canadian fisherman are probably pretty gleeful!
ETA: Susan Collins is very concerned.
Xolodno
(6,415 posts)...they think it will turn out alright in the end and will even be better for them. They just have to deal with some "temporary" pain. That is, until they find themselves unemployed/out of business/bankrupt.
Nothing brings people to their senses when they can't provide and find out the safety nets to help along have been gutted because of the very people they voted in.
MuseRider
(34,142 posts)This never fails to crack me up.
zanana1
(6,140 posts)I don't care for lobster; I just don't think it tastes like much of anything. It's alot like shrimp to me. Maybe there's something wrong with my taste buds. I also think of them as giant bugs.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I don't remember much about it except it was at a restaurant.
I always went for crawdads, the "poor man's lobster", which we recently discussed here
I think if I lived where fresh lobster was readily available, I would give it a whirl!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)YOU were still alive?! Humans are barbaric!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)at all costs; your life depends on it!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)How many crustaceans must die before justice is served?!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)LSFL
(1,110 posts)I am in!
Fun fact.
Lobster used to be considered garbage and was commonly fed to slaves.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Lobster is delicious!
NBachers
(17,192 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)csziggy
(34,141 posts)Yum!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)Duppers
(28,134 posts)For the last 10 yrs. He's a workaholic who is finally retiring this August at the age of 75. I'm holding him to that trip.
Oh, it's just for the "cheap" lobster. Guess we've missed that boat. Overfishing and global warming have taken their toll.
I LOVE lobster.
❤
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,762 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It is a beautiful state. Especially the coast. I was just there this weekend visiting my sister. I hope you finally get your trip!
Duppers
(28,134 posts)We'll fly (or drive from the Hampton Roads area of Va) to Portland and then from there drive up the coast to Bar Harbor. Hubs has been to conferences there before.
I hope to stuff myself full of fresh lobster.
Where is your sis?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)My sister is in Kennebunk. It's less than 2 hours from Boston so it's pretty convenient.
DFW
(54,527 posts)Mt. Desert Island, Bar Harbor. Beautiful place!
Duppers
(28,134 posts)My mother told me about those some years ago and how much she enjoyed the area. "You must go," she said.
(Those were her travel/pre-dementia years. She's 93 now.)
DFW
(54,527 posts)I wish I remembered my pre-dementia years, but I'm afraid there haven't been any. That's why I keep traveling.
Duppers
(28,134 posts)I'm the one with brain fog.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I really can't stand the taste of lobster. You guys enjoy it though. You can have my portion.