The Decline of Red Lobster Is the Decline of the Middle Class

[dionysus]

113. my dad comes from "Down East" Maine... lobster was so readily available it was often used as

fertilizer for home gardens at the time... grandpa ran a lobster boat before becoming a captain in the merchant marines during WW2 (he said at times during the night, sailing around south America, I think, you didn't need to plot a course, you could navigate by the light of burning and sinking ships), and ate so much lobster, eventually he grew sick of it.

I wish I had the opportunity to eat so much lobster that I became sick of it
I usually bring back a few in the cooler twice a year when I return from Maine back to NY... still $4-5\lb right at the tank at Shaw's (yeah I could go down to the coast and maybe save a few bucks but I'm too lazy).

If I'm desperate, they sell for $10lb out of the tank in the grocery store here....

for some reason, I'd rather eat lobster prepared by me than by a restaurant, even at home; I usually go for some combo of haddock and scallops and clams when I eat out back in ME.