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He saved taxpayer money on that, all from the day-old menu!
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We do lobsters occasionally at home (when they are on sale for $8-9 a Lb). Unfortunately the place we were staying at in Maine didn’t have anything to cook on. I love it, made the best thing this summer. Bought two previously steamed lobsters for about $18 at stop and shop, drizzled some sourdough with good olive oil and some salt and pepper, grilled the bread and served the chilled lobster salad on that.Just saw this after I posted. Lobster rolls are for tourists. Just stop at any grocery store and pick up a couple of lobsters for 20-25 dollars and make like 9 lobster rolls.
I lived on lobster one summer, it seemed. I worked on a friends lobster boat and he's give me as much lobster as I could handle. I kind of got sick of it. That was a pretty good job.
The salads being there is bit hilarious like it offsets the cholesterol a little bit ha.
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He also inadvertently helped the economy by advertising for mcdonalds.Hey!
He saved taxpayer money on that, all from the day-old menu!
It isn't, but to be fair it wasn't served to foreign dignitaries. IIRC it was lunch for some visiting sports team.This is a shoop right?
Biden having a ritzy dinner while crushing workers over 15 days of sick leave is the biggest "let them eat cake moment".
Why do we accept this?
apparently it was just lying around:Yeah, but it's kind of a mystery why it was ever cheap shit. It's not like it was just something laying around or the throwaway parts of another animal, any seafood takes some effort to pull it out of the ocean and bring it in.
This is an official state dinner. Therefore, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone regarding the expense or extravagance of the meal.
Trump's McDonald's run was for college football players during a government shutdown. To compare the two meals is disingenuous.
I'd like to hear more than just a tweet from that Maine congressman. What regulations is he mentioning? Lobstering off the coast of Maine is one of the most self regulated industries out there. Due to lobstering being a multigenerational family business, they have created more unwritten rules than major league baseball.
Gotta ask.
What's a lobster roll?
Obviously we get lobster here in the UK but I've only ever had it as "lobster" at a restaurant.just the crustacean.
Also, I've just realised 'Lobster' sounds like a nickname of a bloke who's surname starts with Lob.
The salads being there is bit hilarious like it offsets the cholesterol a little bit ha.
You cook the lobster, shell it and collect all the meat and juice, add a pinch of seasoning, a little mayo, a little finely diced shallot or celery, and a bit of lemon juice. That's usually it. Take that salad and put it into a buttery, soft bread roll. There is a traditional style of bread used for it.
There are of course other variation in this recipe, but this is pretty much the base of it. It really should be with the absolute freshest lobster, just caught and cooked, and with good, light bread.
It's an upper east coast staple that has moved around the country quite a bit.
Just a matter of a shifting baseline of what 'normal' ecology looks like prior to heavy fishing pressure. Early in the European history of North America, lobsters could be pulled out of tide pools without getting wet. Cod were thick right up to the shore, when John Cabot showed up they were lifting fish out of the water with a weighted basket. In the caribbean, sailors said they could navigate at night to natural harbours by a clunking noise, green sea turtles were so abundant that their shells were banging into each other constantly. Oyster around New York were a literal foot long and thick, one European observer said eating an American oyster was like eating a baby.Yeah, but it's kind of a mystery why it was ever cheap shit. It's not like it was just something laying around or the throwaway parts of another animal, any seafood takes some effort to pull it out of the ocean and bring it in.
Sounds banging