Everyone loves lobster, especially Jumbo Lobster Tails. It goes as well with candlelight and champagne as it does with sunshine and beer. But have you ever wondered about the secret lives of these tasty crustaceans? These lobster facts are just as fascinating as lobster is delicious.
Lobster Fact #1: Prisoners and Goats
Lobsters weren’t always the luxury food they are today. In colonial times, Lobsters were so plentiful along the New England coast that they would wash ashore in piles and were gathered by hand and fed to prisoners, servants and goats. Lobster did not begin to be treated as a luxury food until the advent of train travel. Train workers realized that they could serve lobster to passengers because it was plentiful and cheap. Midwesterners, unaware of the negative stigma attached to these crustaceans, believed they were eating a decadent food and began requesting lobster even when they weren’t on the train. Now lobster has gone from a prison food so despised that it was considered cruel to serve more than three times per week, to the most requested meal on death row.
Lobster Fact #2: Shell Shockers
Here's another interesting fact about lobsters: Though most lobsters are either blue-black or greenish-brown, genetic and environmental factors can create some showstopping color variations. These include: blue (1 in 2 million lobsters); bright red (1 in 10 million); yellow (1 in 30 million); two-colored (1 in 50 million); and albino, aka “crystal lobsters” (1 in 100 million).
Lobster Fact #3: All Mixed Up
A lobster’s brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its heart on its back, its teeth in its stomach, and its kidneys in its head. And if all that is not weird enough, Lobsters pee out of their faces—specifically, from glands located right under their eyes. Squirting urine at each other is part of both lobster combat and courtship.
Lobster Fact #4: Size Matters
Lobsters will keep growing till they die. It isn't unusual to find lobsters of 15-20 pounds! The largest lobster on record weighed in at 44 pounds but scientists have no idea how big they can get.
Bonus Fact: Lobster Golf
Fore real! Lobster shells form the core of some golf balls. Since this type of ball is biodegradable it is used on cruise ships and courses near oceans and lakes. So now that summer is just around the corner, dust off that grill and fire some Wild Maine Lobster Tails. And crack a cold one, naturally.
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