WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE "LOBSTA" TAILS???

[warmwinds]

I love PEI lobster, but it's the same as Maine lobster (I guess when they're swimming around they can't tell where the border is)...we went to PEI and had FABULOUS lobster at a church supper - along with mussels, potatoes, and rhubarb dessert - PEI has all my favorite things! As a matter of fact, that was the trip I had lobster 5 nights in a row...in Moncton, twice in PEI, St. John's and Bar Harbor...never got sick of it!

[JNLROSE]

OK, I have been avoiding this thread for over a week---the thing about the lobster is::::::

THEY'RE AWFUL!!!!! Why on earth would anyone think you could make 2000 lobster tails taste good at the same time???????????? It's culinarily impossible!!!!!

Choose something else & enjoy lobster in your hometown fave restaurant! The prime rib was great on lobster night on our last cruise!

Rosie

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[brigittetom]

But Rosie. It's free. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] Actually on the Zenith, lobster was excellent.

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Feb. 13 05

[Lois R]

hi....like Rosie, I haven't said anything on here...yet [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Holly...I tried the smoked salmon one morning with a bagel and cream cheese...it tasted fine to me...and I was raised on lox since I was just a wee girl [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

As for the lobster...try it...if you don't like it...you can always order something else [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] and if you do...order another one [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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[JNLROSE]

I'm NOT a smoked salmon pro, but I DO love it! I ate it every day on our last 11 night cruise! I thought it was very good! Great--nope, just very good! Actually, other than the lobster, the food on Summit was all VERY good!

Rosie

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[RCLforever]

All those Northeast responders are right!! Ain't nuttin' like the real thing!!
I'm from New bedford, Massachusetts, largest fishing port on the Eastern Seaboard... and my sister and family operate a Lobster seafood market and restaurant right over in Connecticut:
[url="http://www.westbrooklobster.com"]www.westbrooklobster.com[/url]

Take a peek- a good all-around family restaurant!!!!

[CGTNORMANDIE]

HI GANG!!

For those of you taking the Canadian cruises this year...I would suggest that you get off the ship and have lunch. You can order great lobster all the way up from NY. Newport, Martha's Vinyard, Boston, Portland and all of the Canadian ports have great places to try "Real Lobsta".

I heard someone on TV referring to the spiny lobster as "Rock Lobster"...how confusing!!! Spiny lobster is not Rock Lobster.

ROSS

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[seabreezer]

The lobster on the Constellation was also very bad. It was excessively salty and spongy in consistency as though it had been frozen. Everyone else at the table loved it though, and couldn't believe I didn't scarf down every bite! I very rarely order lobster in a restaurant because it's almost always overcooked.

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[warmwinds]

As I've mentioned before, to me rock lobster IS spiny lobster...I tried posting this link, but couldn't, so cut and pasted this excerpt...



NZ Seafood Business | Fishing and Aquaculture | Species

Rock Lobster
Spiny rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) or crayfish are found throughout New Zealand and Chatham Islands’ coastal waters. The commercial rock lobster fishery is New Zealand’s third biggest seafood export earner.

Spiny rock lobsters are carnivorous and live in and around reefs in depths ranging from 5 to 275 metres. They are dark red and orange above with paler yellowish bellies.

Rock lobster fishery


If you grew up calling Maine lobster rock lobster, that's fine...what did Shakespeare say? "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."

[warmwinds]

CGT: another excerpt, this from a website about Maine lobsters:



Overview of Homarus americanus: The American Lobster
Nomenclature / Anatomy & Biology / Habitat / Predators & Diet

Nomenclature

So what is a lobster do you ask? A mammal, a fish or some primitive sea creature? Well, in case you don’t know a lobster belongs to the category Invertebrata, one of the two categories making up the animal kingdom. Unlike us humans who belong to the other group, Vertebrata, invertebrates lack a vertebral column (a backbone).

This is the classification system that all scientists use to categorize animals. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Below is the classification for Homarus americanus.

Kingdom: Anamilia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Crustacea
Order: Decapoda
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Homarus
Species: americanus

Lobsters are actually closely related to insects! It’s hard to believe that these beady-eyed, clawed-clothed marine animals could be closely related to a mosquito or a grasshopper, but indeed they are. Lobsters, like insects, belong to the invertebrate phylum Arthropoda. Besides lobsters and insects, spiders and snails belong to this group as well. These animals are closely related because of two main characteristics that they share: they all have an exoskeleton (outer skeleton) and they all have joint appendages.

Lobsters are farther categorized into the class Crustacea, along with other marine organisms like crabs and shrimp. These crustaceans are distinguishable from other Arthropods with hard exoskeletons, like mussels and clams, because their shell is softer and more flexible. Because lobsters have ten legs they belong to the order Decapoda (derived from the Latin word, ten feet).

Also called the American lobster, the Atlantic lobster or the true lobster, Homarus americanus belongs to the family Nephropidae. Another kind of edible lobster found in the order Decapoda is the family Palinuridae. These lobsters are called spiny lobsters or rock lobsters. Unlike the American lobster they lack large claws, have spines all over their bodies, and live in subtropical and tropical oceans.

[richkinkade]

Lobsters are called "bugs" by divers because that's what they look like underwater.

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