Palm Beach area peeps: Maine Lobster....

spinfreak

Cod & Capers seafood just off 95 and PGA Blvd has live lobster for $5.99/lb. Hardshells...no culls, semi-soft, or rejects. 1 to 1 1/2 lb average. Just picked up 3. Mmmmm

captinmitch

Ummm, is that on your new diet?

spinfreak

Seafood diet. Or see food. whatever. Yep.

Floyd

That's a good price. I just returned from Maine and the roadside prices were about the same as that price. Lobsters are abnormally plentiful around Stonington in downeast Maine, and that may be driving prices down. I have a friend who has a son that is an active lobsterman there and recently had a 10-day period during which he collected over 12,000 pounds of lobsters from his 800 traps. I was thrilled to get a big container of crab claws from him. The crabs are a bycatch and make good crabcakes or whatever.

captinmitch

I thought when we had Spin week in the middle of the 5 Pupraiser weeks, you were going on a diet. Sorry.

spinfreak

Floyd wrote: »

That's a good price. I just returned from Maine and the roadside prices were about the same as that price. Lobsters are abnormally plentiful around Stonington in downeast Maine, and that may be driving prices down. I have a friend who has a son that is an active lobsterman there and recently had a 10-day period during which he collected over 12,000 pounds of lobsters from his 800 traps. I was thrilled to get a big container of crab claws from him. The crabs are a bycatch and make good crabcakes or whatever.

When I lived in NJ, we'd head up to RI, MA, and ME often to go codfishing. Used to love buying lobs right off the boats. Used to be $4 for a cull and $5 for a "regular". Weight wasn't measured...most went about 1.5 lbs. The crabs (I believe they're Jonah crabs or something like that) used to be 25¢ with 1 claw, or 50¢ with 2 claws. Then a lot of supermarkets and seafood markets started carrying them, and prices went up to about 2 bucks a piece. This was about 10 years ago, so not sure what they are now. Lobster have gotten more plentiful now, so the lobstermen might not even mess with the crabs anymore?

captinmitch wrote: »

I thought when we had Spin week in the middle of the 5 Pupraiser weeks, you were going on a diet. Sorry.

Oh...you must have taken 1387 different opinions from others about what I should or should not be doing, and mistaken it for me saying it

captinmitch

Oh...you must have taken 1387 different opinions from others about what I should or should not be doing, and mistaken it for me saying it

That must be it. Anyways, Bon Apetit'

LitiGATOR

spinfreak wrote: »

Oh...you must have taken 1387 different opinions from others about what I should or should not be doing, and mistaken it for me saying it

So after all that advice, most of which was very good, you are disregarding it all and continuing in your normal ways?

Regarding the lobsters, that's a good price, I am actually at a client's office right now in Palm Beach and not too far from PGA. Did they have a lot of them?

spinfreak

LitiGATOR wrote: »

So after all that advice, most of which was very good, you are disregarding it all and continuing in your normal ways?

Didn't say I am or am not...just that I never said any of my own intentions on that thread

LitiGATOR wrote: »

Regarding the lobsters, that's a good price, I am actually at a client's office right now in Palm Beach and not too far from PGA. Did they have a lot of them?

Maybe a dozen or so left. Not sure if they might have a tank in the back or not

King_Me

They fly them in daily -


Live Maine Lobsters
(1 - 1-1/2 lb Avg.)
Flown in Daily - While They Last!
Steamed for Free - Call Ahead.
$5.99/lb.



Cod and Capers
Address:
4128 P.G.A. BLVD
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

Telephone:
561-622-0963

Team Sabatage

This is what happens when you have a well regulated fishery.

hewes18

That's a **** good deal! Going to have to ride down there. I bought 2 lobsters a few weeks ago they were 4lbs total and it was over $50!!!

jad1097

Wish I could find a deal like that in the Tampa area.

Team Sabatage

Don't buy the big ones, they're tough. 2lbs is about as big as you want, 2.5 at the most.

Permit Rat

Team Sabatage wrote: »

Don't buy the big ones, they're tough. 2lbs is about as big as you want, 2.5 at the most.

That's a bunch of moose muffins, but anyway....WATCH OUT BUYING LOBSTER this time of year. Very often you find low prices and this is because there are a lot of "shedders"......lobsters that have recently shed their shells and are full of water instead of meat. They do this differently than a Fla. lobster....I think it takes longer because the water is so much colder, but don't know for sure. OP said there were none of these, but it is really hard to tell sometimes.

Team Sabatage

Not hard to tell at all. If you can't tell a hard shell from a soft shell, keep your hands out of the tank.
They shed different because of the 2 large appendeges sticking out in front of them that have to split and molt too. Twice as much to molt takes twice as long.

Moose muffins? You don't know lobster.

spinfreak

Tough or not, there's a restaurant not to far from me that has a 10lb lobster for $80 (well, at least they used to...haven't checked in a while). Always wanted to go there for my bday, but haven't made it yet. Maybe this year is the year. I tend to like my lobster on the chewier side anyway

As far as softies, none at Cods & Capers. I always make it a point to check before buying lobs, because I hate paying a ton of money for a water filled shell.

Permit Rat

Team Sabatage wrote: »

Not hard to tell at all. If you can't tell a hard shell from a soft shell, keep your hands out of the tank.
They shed different because of the 2 large appendeges sticking out in front of them that have to split and molt too. Twice as much to molt takes twice as long.

Moose muffins? You don't know lobster.

Bubba, I was born and raised in New England. And lobster claws DO NOT split when it molts. They only split where the carapace meets the tail (just like a Fla. lobster) and the soft claws back out of the old shell. Trust me on this....I have sat in front of an aquarium and watched the whole process.....both species.

The time difference I am talking about, comes when the new shell fills up with meat. If you have never opened a lobster (hard shell) with much less meat than normal, and a lot of water inside, then I respectfully suggest that YOU do not know lobster. I believe that Maine lobsters do not shed as often as the Fla. variety. So when they pump up the new shell with water before it hardens, they might make it a little bigger, to allow for growth. THIS I don't know about for sure, but I HAVE eaten plenty of lobsters in the month of August that were hard, but seemingly only like half full of meat.

JaxNole

Permit Rat wrote: »

Bubba, I was born and raised in New England. And lobster claws DO NOT split when it molts. They only split where the carapace meets the tail (just like a Fla. lobster) and the soft claws back out of the old shell. Trust me on this....I have sat in front of an aquarium and watched the whole process.....both species.

The time difference I am talking about, comes when the new shell fills up with meat. If you have never opened a lobster (hard shell) with much less meat than normal, and a lot of water inside, then I respectfully suggest that YOU do not know lobster. I believe that Maine lobsters do not shed as often as the Fla. variety. So when they pump up the new shell with water before it hardens, they might make it a little bigger, to allow for growth. THIS I don't know about for sure, but I HAVE eaten plenty of lobsters in the month of August that were hard, but seemingly only like half full of meat.

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Chuddybuckrivet

JaxNole wrote: »

Yankee fight!

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spinfreak

Haha

jad1097

JaxNole wrote: »

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