Lobstermen finding more odd colors in the catch

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- When a 100-pound shipment of lobsters arrived at Bill Sarro's seafood shop and restaurant last month, it contained a surprise - six orange crustaceans that have been said to be a 1-in-10-million oddity.

"My butcher was unloading them and said, `Oh, my gosh, boss, they sent us cooked dead lobsters,'" said Sarro, owner of Fresh Catch Seafood in Mansfield, Mass. "He then picked one up and it crawled up his arm."

Reports of odd-colored lobsters used to be rare in the lobster fishing grounds of New England and Atlantic Canada. Normal lobsters are a mottled greenish-brown.

But in recent years, accounts of bright blue, orange, yellow, calico, white and even split lobsters - one color on one side, another on the other - have jumped. It's now common to hear several stories a month of a lobsterman bringing one of the quirky crustaceans to shore.

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[Warpy]

1. I saw blotched orange and even blue on lobsters

40 years ago, so I don't think it's particularly new, although they might be getting more numerous. They all turned the same bright orange after cooking.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Eh, they're all pink on the inside.

And very tasty!

[ife62995se]

3. sounds nasty.