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- Lobster went from prison food to a well-known delicacy. Seafood was left out of rationed foods during WWII, and with the advent of railway transportation, lobster became known as an exotic delicacy.
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Why Lobster Is So Expensive | So Expensive
If chicken is expensive in the future, imma tell my grandson that
I used to eat a bucket of em.
With so many vegans rising this could be a reality in the future.
Hahahahaha
Chicken that laid eggs can laid rapidly and you see a exploit of chickens
One of the reasons chicken is so cheap is because they reproduce and grow very fast and is very easy to breed.
@@n3gi_ If there are more vegans it is going to become cheaper
"Poor man's protein"
How times have changed
Well not really but we all just poor these days XD
@@edwardwong9599 XD
Chicken used to be a delicacy as well
Talia Janette now a poor man can't afford lobster.
Y’all see how “luxury” is just a facade....
I thankfully live near a fishing locality were lobster is about 20 bucks a big one, not gonna lie it is pretty delicious
Similar case here I live in New Zealand where the furthest people are from the ocean is about 1 hours drive away and lobster is normally $25-30 (~16-19 USD) and if you don’t have money you can always go for a dive and catch a couple in under an hour
Stop bragging
ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!
Wandi Ong hi sir, nobody asked
Does lobster give you a weird sensation
The prisoners 300 years ago: wtf what is this cheap lobster crap
Tbf they probably didn’t know how to properly prepare lobsters and ate it while it was mushy.
it's likely the lobsters served to prisoners were dead before cooking
Prisoners on boats rioted because they were forced to eat it.
nah i think they were more like, dont tell them its delicious tell them you want something else so they keep giving us this
There was a court case where prisoners sued over being fed lobster. They called it cruel and unusual punishment.
Back in the day, lobster and champagne with a serving of caviar was a poor man's meal...
🤣🤣 you’re so right. Caviar was the Equivalent to the peanuts they serve in a bar.
I wonder: what did the rich people eat back then?
Andrea Hernandez meat like lamb, goat..etc and the fat was the best part. The more live stock you had the richer that meant you were.
@@ChellyTheGreat thanks Chells
@N J are you really basing your modern day values and judgements solely on what people centuries ago preferred? Wouldn't it make more sense to try to view food objectively?
69 years later:
*Why Chicken is so expensive?*
Except chicken was actually a delicacy 100 years ago, until humans farmed the crap out of them and drove its price down.
HeadFlame hahahaha 😂😂😂
@@koihc wouldnit say that. More than a hundred years ago. But that was true of all meat.
@@paulthomas8262 all meat except lobster and steak.
highly likely though, as population grows, chickens might be too expensive to grow, instead we will be eating grubs for protein as a major source
Lobster used to be fed to prisoners because they were so readily available
Just wow
perception of modern life.
There were far fewer people. and they didn't need trawlers to catch them.
Caviar used to be fed to chicken by farmers back in the day, look how far we've come :/
@@revenger211 chick also used to be cheaper.
It was bad lobster though. Barely edible
Rebuild of Eva is shit watch the original instead no it was good
Poor people: *Eats normal food at the time*
Rich people: *tries normal food for the first time*
Rich people: It’s free real estate
i know you’re making a joke but that really is how it goes.
another example of food that went up in price after rich people started liking it: ribs
No joke buddy
@Atheist Nihilist Communist They drink coffee made with the coffee beans that are extracted from cat shit
Same to spice & herbs from india...
Before British price were low, but now...🙏
tank me for liking your comment
My family was so poor when my dad was a child he got sent to school with lobster sandwiches & the kids all laughed at him because they had ham or peanut butter.... but there arent very many places that you can be from & tell that story.
Same in my family. A group of missionaries came and my uncle serve them lobster and sea snail and he apologise for not be able to serve them meat. We are fhisermen.
@@emmanuelsanchezsilvente8228 =] Its a good life.
Crazy how now if you were sent to school with lobster people would look at you like you made of money
It's kinda ironic
I don't understand why people make fun of other people for what they eat
Everybody: we need to stop global warming
Lobsters: NO
American lobsters like cold water. Cold water lobster is generally preferred by consumers.
@@paulthomas8262 well...they're fucked then.
cockroaches of the sea
kirin EXACTLY there just giant sea bugs put people are to ignorant to realize that
Ocean itself: YES, IT’S CHANGING THE CHEMISTRY OF ME
**In a parallel universe**
A lobster's probably watching 'Why are humans so expensive?'
On Titan
😂😂😂😂
Mmm that's upsetting 😂😂
I cant tell if this is a vegan posting or just another high person post
Sumith Bhat so original
Funny true story...
My wife and I went to very upscale,sophisticated restaurant for an anniversary.
We were seated in a nice secluded booth,but very close to the live lobster tank.
As we sat there people watching and talking,we saw each waiter and waitress bring a couple over to the lobster tank and let each choose the living lobster they wanted for dinner.
Interestingly, we noticed that after the chosen lobster was ceremoniously removed from the tank ,placed on a flat s.steel platter,and then carried into the kitchen..
The happy couple went back to their table, and sat down.
Then, we began noticing something odd...after say five minutes or so, a waiter would carry a live lobster from the kitchen back to the lobster tank and drop it back in the tank.
After seeing this process repeated several times, my wife and I had a light bulb moment.
Ha,ha, the kitchen wasn't actually killing and cooking the live lobster.
They were probably serving frozen Lobster.
It was all for ceremony.
Reminded us of the movie with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick where rich people were told they were eating eating endangered animals at $100,000.00 per plate, but they were served turkey tettrazini.
restaurants do lot of tricky things like serving different fish in the place of another
How do you know they were the same lobsters? Ever think they were just replenishing them with ones they had in the walk in cooler? Lobsters can live out of water for a few days providing they are kept cool. I mean logically thinking the tank needs to be replenished at some point.
@@moceri55 Good point,had not considered that option...except in this case the lobsters had the same colored claw bands but maybe....
Next time I will use wife's finger nail polish and mark them.
I might get thrown out but oh well ...
@@jimhenry9936 *Hol up-*
You can't really freeze lobster though. I mean technically you can do it, but it doesn't come out right and you need to cook it first. That probably isn't what is happening. It is entirely possible picking the lobster is for show(I know Red Lobster doesn't keep track of who ordered what lobster), but the waiter probably was bringing out lobster from the back.
"Lobster were known as the cockroach of the sea and even served to prisoners"
Me: Dem prisoners were living lavish!
Actually those are the shrimps
they were still getting butt raped though so I don't consider that "lavish"
The prison cooks probably cooked the shit out of the lobster and ruined it lol.
TheIrishEnigma Not only that, I can almost guarantee they were dead on arrival and probably smelled and tasted like ammonia.
How on earth would prisoners get served lobsters like you would in a restaurant? No, they didnt use butter, minimal seasoning, and overboiled (since cooked in huge batches) til they turned to rubber. "Lavish" lol. Also just try eating anything you like three times a day for years. Even if its filet mignon it will taste bland and youll crave anything else.
Because rich people started liking them. THERE YA GO! SAVED YOU TIME
Stfu it’s an interesting video. Stop putting there work in the trash. That’s called a “main idea” and it’s an oversimplification.
shut the hell up
White p
They are overrated scavengers, many people becoming allergic to. Overhyped garbage food.
@@GoesByJ there work ^^
~Year 2569~
*Why Air Is So Expensive*
*O'hare air has joined the chat*
I didnt laugh. Try again. Not funny
sverma101 r/whooosh
We ain't gonna live until 2050
#WorldGonnaEnd
sverma101 not interested
This So Expensive series is one of my absolute favorites on any video platform. Short, straight to the point, great speaking, awesome animations, great sound score, informative, etc. i could go on and on. Great work
Lobster : opens TH-cam
Recommended : why are humans so expensive?
Somewhere in an alternate dimension lol
This is likely in the far future, when they can look back and say how humans were once the cockroach of the solar system.
Wow
Pretty Ricky i meann, bm for organ exists
I hate comments like this. It keeps saying humanity is horrible for eating animals and I don't get it.
Lobster is very expensive because everyone wants to be and live a life like Larry
Livin' like Larry!
Lobster is quite over-rated imo. It's expensive but not amazing.
Damn it Mr President you’re right
I’m starting to think this is @realdonaldtrump 😅
@@huzcer you never had good lobster then. The price is ridiculous tho at some places
Once they dipped the lobster in butter, it became gourmet.
the 80s excess
you got it blame it on butter and just a little salt
Popcorn be like: Am I a joke to you??
Fax
And richfell for it. Made it costly.
Depending on which country you are in (or even in which part of the producing country), lobster prices vary quite a bit and also depending on the season. In Eastern America, and during the in-season, Atlantic lobsters can be cheaper than many varieties of fish. Of course in Europe and especially in Asia, lobsters are outrageously priced, especially the spiny lobsters
Lies again? Loyalty Bonus
Right now in Maine it’s $3.49lb boat price, it’s cheaper to buy lobster than beef
@@jeremygourde9880 Is boat price retail or wholesale price?
@@msbrownbeast boat price is kinda like fish markets but just sold straight of the trawlers ( fishing boat) as a fresh catch...
before the fisherman sell their catch to the fisheries whon will wholesale the fish/crustaceans to chain grocery stores and restaurants
If lobsters were considered the Cockroaches of the sea does that mean the Cockroaches of the land will become a delicacy 🤔🤔
Good question
@@destroyerprime2011 Already is in china
@@AyeAnon
Right, lol!!
:0
they day we start eating cockroaches is the day I shoot my self into space
That might be the first advantage of Global warming I've heard in long time
lol.
Too bad it’s not true. Global warming is making lobsters move deeper into the ocean and is raising their susceptibility to disease.
They don’t mention shell rot which happens quicker more more acidic water.
No, the first advantage is that scientists want billions to study it. Then later they'll say, like evolution that they've never found any real evidence of and now call "natural selection." You might notice that after they couldn't find any evidence of species mutation, i.e. the missing link, they decided it must be change WITHIN the species. Of course, EVERYBODY already knew that. People in just a couple of generations have gotten bigger and taller. So now they call global warming, "climate change." They changed their minds after it started getting colder in several areas and other scientists proved it. Oh well, wrong again, give em' a few more billion and eventually they'll figure it out, if you don't go broke first.
@Atilla
Excuse me?!
It’s cause Mr Krab hoards all of the money :D
Jae but he’s a crab not a lobster
J O confirmed on stream - Mr Krab enslaves all lobsters
Run Lary rum or swim ?
Jae hes a crab 🦀 not lobster 🦞
You thinking of Larry the lobster
As someone who grew up spending summers at my grandma's in Maine, I wish they would've gone to an actual lobsterman in Maine rather than a fancy NYC restaurant. There are families there that have been lobstermen since the colonial era where they were still the cockroaches of the sea
@Sein Kim Official /Blaze Blue I grew up spending summers at my grandma’s cabin that has since passed to me, in a small harbor town in southern Maine. While I’m now vegetarian and no longer eat lobsters, many beautiful summer nights were spent on the restaurant pier where the lobstermen quite literally pull up, and unload into the kitchen. You can feel how much the industry has shaped every aspect of the early years in these towns like mine.
@@oceanesta5131 "Now a vegetarian"
Spent too much time while growing up eating very rich meats? (Rich in flavour)
I was like that with lamb and cornbeef for years
Couldnt handle the taste
Sorry im rambling
Aussie here
Deuteronomy 14:10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
@@angelacasein7059 What does it say about the lords fat again?
I'm from Maine, lobster still are cockroaches of the sea 😂 The reason they cost at much? Bc tourists will pay for it, sorry for the harshness, just being honest
You have depressed a Mainer
I feel that, I’m from Mass
i think is funny lobsters or oysters are considered fancy food around the worl i mean here in the northeast of brazil i eat it eveyday i feel like it
Finally someone spoke the truth
Tourists have great taste.. Americans dip their McDonalds burger in ketchup and get served meals in a bucket...
This the type of shit you watch at 3 AM when you can't sleep.
My spirit animal 🤣
2:47 am lmaooo checks out
Lol true 😂
2:15 am over here
Go to sleep guys
i edited this so you guys won't have any clue on why I have these likes.
"They were called the lobster of the land"
@@ZZMAU-m5t lmao 😂
*People do eat insects for protein.*
eos
Reported, this is not okay.
yummy
2010s: why is king crab so expensive......
2020s:why is toilet paper so expensive now?
@Danny it was a joke bc stores used to be selling rapidly
Use me as an "I should be sleeping instead of watching this" button
but are you gluten free tho
Lemme press you then.
It's 4:34 am oooop
Midnight
Ong
Summer In NY:
"Let's get lobster rolls".
Summer In CA:
*ground trembling*
I'd rather have a lobster roll than live with the anxiety that my house is going to collapse at any second (edit: I'm from California btw)
L.A life
I felt it yesterday tooo
You should probably feed the San Andreas fault, it's clearly hungry with all that rumbling.
@@thanosactuallymadesomevali4234 That's a no brainer.
For some reason Christianity doesn't consider fish to be meat.
That's so confusing
Because fish are friends, not food.
@@JayI ❤️
Just like how platypusses are fishes , therefore they used to eat platypus meat.
Because fish is not meat. Meat is different then fish, just like insects are different then both fish and meat.
They also don’t consider immaculate conception to be a problem and that the universe was created in 7 days.
Is not a single person going to talk about how the live lobsters in the restaurant shots are all missing a claw?
Common in crustaceans. They're able to shed limbs and they're cannibalistic.
Back when I worked at a pet shop we'd get fiddler crabs missing limbs all the time because they get hungry in transit and rip each other's limbs off for a snack. Crabs be hardcore.
They regrow, and in the case of the claws the bigger one remaining becomes the bigger one overall
@@imbatman6604 interesting!
You would think for a video about lobster, they’d have used lobsters with both claws. 🤷🏽♂️
that could also be the lobster type, some lobsters have claws and some don't have claws 🦞 all still tasty thou
me: notices poor people food becomes rich people food
Also me: don't touch my great value potato chips.
After watching this, I am reminded of how damn lucky I am. My husband is a fish merchant, and my in-laws catch lobster for a living. I don’t get that often, but when I do it’s such a treat every single time. I live on seafood!
Lobster, Dover sole, langoustines, sole, prawns, scallops. 😋 👅
Meanwhile me in a landlocked country:- "What is sea food?"
We survive on vegetables and rice.
I thought your husband was a fish for 2 seconds
Lucky you, imagine living here in Wisconsin your entire life where you don't get lobster or seafood often at all, if you do it's frozen. Last time I ate a lobster tail or lobster anything was before this video came out in 2019, it's 2022 now. I will eat some store made sushi on occasion but that's about it.
I feel like are lives are mirrored because I just ate some fish tacos from Del taco!!
@@bravomike4734 me living in landlocked country Mongolia:
“What is sea food, vegetables and rice?”
We survive on meat and dairy. And god help us for our lack of spices. Only salt.
Lesson of the Day: No matter how low valued you are now, your value will increase over time.
Nokia stock
Unless you're gay
actually with humans, the price goes down as we get older XD
@@pereiramariana35 stop
@@denniscuesta7009 Such a dumb homophobic comment. Why are gays the expection? Explain
I'm a live crab and lobster supervisor in the shellfish factory i work for.
Here in UK, female lobsters carrying eggs are legal to be sold, the Chinese don't want them but we do ship them all around Europe, there's no such thing as too big lobsters either, although they do taste much worse than let's say 600-g 1000g ones. They can only be too small in which case fishermen would release them back into the ocean, or in very few cases they would try to mix them in with the rest of the lobsters and we would be returning the small ones as we do weigh every individual lobster by hand.
When did lobsters become such a delicacy? When butter was invented!
Butter is thousands of years old though... its purely a cultural thing
When they became scarcer, when they were marketed across the country and when the rich found out about them..personally, lobster is related to a roach and I don't eat bugs or crustaceans.
@@seecanon5840 But...lobsters are actually considered a nuisance. Like diamonds they are artificially inflated.
You the type of ignorant yankee who thinks butter is invented by the French LMAO
Can you do an episode on why my wife is so expensive?
| So Expensive
College loans are more expensive
@@alejandroaragontan4397 unless you have a college loans and a wife
?
Well, damn, aren't you dissing your wife, now, arentcha
Let me have her
They're expensive because it's harder to catch and keep fresh until served. It has nothing to do with rich man or poor mans food.
Ife Awosika Apparently many people are saying that in the past it was cheaper? Was it cheaper to keep it fresh in the past? Or like how can that be.
Answer: When people like things, they try their hardest to source in large amounts despite scarcity, driving up prices.
Yeah and when things are expensive people cook the thing with good ingredients and try harder to make it delicious.
someones been taking community college economics 101 I am impressed sir
So what i‘m getting out of that is:
Only mass farm stuff that you don‘t like, so you can sell it at high prices without your actual favourite stuff getting expensive.
@@blacky_Ninja i say no, because then you'd control the supply of your favorite, allowing you to get fat on it however much you like.
$38 for a Lobster Roll (NYC prices) these people are smoking - GOOD lobster rolls with lobster fresh off the boats in RI / CT / MA are $15
There are plenty of spots in NYC that charge around 16 to 20 bucks for a lobster roll. Remember, they have to ship their lobsters from New England. 38 bucks is not the norm here either.
Ok I thought I was the only one who heard $38 for a roll.
Boy in LA we make 14.25 an hour we can afford it
I got a buddy that works at Maine Shellfish and he brought me 7 pounds for 20 bucks.
Everything is expensive in New York I though
$34.00 for a lobster roll. That’s crazy.
I’m glad I live in San Diego
scott harvell or anywhere other than NY lol
Nick G that is true. Los Angeles and San Francisco is as expensive.
San Diego still have expensive lobsters.
Jasmyn Thompson theses a few hidden gems that a lot of people don’t know about. I think when it comes to seafood anywhere it’s out out rages
I paid 22 for my most expensive lobster roll when I was in NYC
There's actually a province here in Ph in which lobster are used to be fisherman's staple food. And then business men knew of this, they've started to negotiate with local fishermen. They are buying lobsters for insanely low price from them and businessmen bring lobsters in the city and sold them expensively.
Please do more seafood episodes. I love it. I rewatch it every once in a while
Lobster is the most dirtiest thing you can eat, "it cleans the ocean".
It is basically like a pig, but in the water.
Exactly! Thanks for this info!! Always disgusted thinking why people eat crabs and lobsters snd squids!!
Really? I’ve never tried it. And I never will.
And the poor thing is boiled alive.. 😭
Wait till you hear about clams
meetings illegal to boil lobsters alive in a lot of american restaurants. And based on its position you can tell if it was boiled alive. The trick is to spike it in the brain to instantly kill it. Also squids eat fish. They dont bottom feed.
Come on down to Nova Scotia, lobster fishermen are everywhere, lobsters come in and get sold for $7 a pound (Nova Scotia is like Maine but more canadian)
More Canadian?
Canadian lobster are apparently cheaper and not as tasty as Maine lobsters, because the water is colder. Apparently Gordon Ramsey will only use them in soups.
@Camden Hanscombe yeah it still seems a bit strange to say a province that is in Canada is more Canadian than an American state though. It's logical, but awkwardly phrased.
@@iankrasnow5383 are you some sort of lobster connoisseur? well then shut up about the quality of my provinces lobsters, I eat lobster on the occasion and I obtain them at an affordable price, and they taste very good and rich in flavour. Don't talk about the taste if you have never had a lobster from Nova Scotia.
@@johnrankin7135 more apologetic
years to come rappers are going to start flexing on how expensive their lobster is.
awgexhector **
Blue lobster be filling my plate
Three hundred fifty to get this taste
Pair it with Wagyu A5 no tripping
Bottle of Blanton’s with an ice cube for sipping
I got claws and tails packing so much meat
But if you snatching my table I’ll be dropping some heat
Years to come? Go to a lyric site like Genius and search “lobster”, check out the matches 😂
It’s already been done.
Hope not. Don't listen to crap..I mean rap. oops!?
When you go to Red Lobster: "Dad, my dinner is looking at me funny."
Its expensive because jackasses keep paying too much for it.
True
Exactly
It’s actually very difficult and expensive to catch.
That can be said about a lot of things.
@@daytonwintle6051 just isn't tho
10 years later when everyone is done with lobsters
why cockroaches are so expensive
Mr.Sandhu mmmmh
@@joseaguirre744 hhhhm
Disgusting smell
I see lobsters as big roaches. They used to freak me out as a kid. Now I just can't afford them lol
@@ellisguerrero212 you mean crayfish 😂😂😂
It's so funny when lobsters stick their claws up like "AYYYY"
Lobster:
Hiroyuki Terada: good afternoon
potatomato :p ahh a man of culture I see
LOL
💀💀💀😂
potatomato :p you mean good night.
@@tea5224 you don't get it
In the future farm raised live chicken, pork, and beef will be a delicacy and expensive. The reason why, is that companies will start to make cheaper plant based copies of animal products.
chicken is already incredibly cheap due to greatly efficient factory farming. There's no reason why chicken would increase unlike lobsters which are difficult to farm and are wild caught.
Hopefully
Have you forgot about Soylent Green?
Theres more chickens in the us than the entire population of the world
Screw that, I'll never be a soy boy, also try to limit my intake of processed/chemical foods.
If anyone is ever in the Tampa Bay Area, I recommend a place called lobster haven. Amazing lobster, and a lot cheaper then some other places. They use Maine lobster, and you can actually see the live lobster in these water-filled boxes.
i like how at the end the man is just starring at nothing and then tries to say something but the video ends
I was scrolling looking for someone else who noticed it lol
6:52
me zoning out in a middle of a conversation 😂
Underrated comment
Lobster tastes great, but the way they prepare and handle them makes me not want to eat it :(
Yeah i wish we actually knew if they feel pain.
@@BrickyRiver0712 Oh I bet they do
@@stella6329 no.no they don't it was proven
Big Poopy can you link me the study
@@unky5724 OK wait
I once caught 500 lobster in one hour.
On my runescape acc.
Lol do u still play and rs3 is best o still playing
Lol I lived on an island where they come up onto the beaches in the early hours of the morning. Was pretty interesting to watch.
"Take you girlfriend to Cambodia, buy her a lobster dinner...spend more than $1" - Agent J, MIB
applejacks971 we don’t have lobsters in Asia, we have crabs 🦀
no? plane ticket to expensive.
@@ffrebello oooooo you got STDSSSS
Lobster in Cambodia is expensive!
I'm guessing (just my guess) at ed's lobster bar, you're paying for about $4 of maine co-op lobster, a bunch of shipping and a lot of ed's lobster bar overhead.
Dumb.
Live lobster is running about $7-$9/lb
it's probably stupid expensive because it's NYC
He is definitely over charging. I'd say it's around 4 to 8 dollars of lobster but the price will be higher because he's in New York. In my area a lobster roll with a half pound of meat costs about 20 to 25 dollars on average. Yes I live near where they are fished for and my friends have traps but that's the price I've always seen them for.
It’s usually more expensive when you can’t really get it fresh and locally based on the area
Lobster is 4.50-5 for sheddas and about 6.50+ for hard shell that is if you get them off a lobstaman
Lobster: Living a happy normal life.
Humans: *Giornos Theme*
Cooking lobsters alive seems inhumane to me. I’ve read that they suffer for about 20 seconds before they die.
stop scamming people ed...34 bucks for a lobster roll?
Rawest yeah even by New York standards that’s ridiculous
@@SisyphusJP i seen lobster in new york city for 20 bucks
Ikr? A red lobster by my house a lobster roll is under 20 bucks
I can get a whole lobster in a roll for 15$
I can get a lobster and a pack of Hawaiian rolls for 25 bucks...
In Massachusetts, you can buy lobsters for like $6 a pound during lobster season.
Taxachusetts?
Wtf im getting them for 40 a pound. Shit i once paid 230 for one. But its soooo good tho
In Cape Cod last week it was 5 dollars a pound and it was in a vacation town
Larrymcjones yea you guys have it good. Anything below 10 a pound is already good. The cheapest I’ve ever gotten it was 20 bucks a pound....
Here in Maine it’s even cheaper
WTF is that “expert” doing boiling lobster with the rubber bands on?
lmao imagine finding a melted rubber band in your lobster and the chef says “it’s for the flavour”
So what?
...so that the lobster wouldnt claw its way out?
they take it off lmao
that or it's probably heat resistant
(3:17) This is an excellent video on one of my favorite foods (hey, I'm from San Francisco...gotta give an honorable mention to the Dungeness crab 🦀).
Anyway, I understand why the small lobsters are thrown back, but why are the large ones also thrown back?
Because they are good reproducers and usually produce healthier & less susceptible to disease off-spring.
As a person who lives near the sea coast, Lobster is pretty cheap in our area. I don't eat it though because I'm allergic to seafoods. :
i feel you pain
I was born in Kazakhstan and when I was small my mum would force me to eat caviar as it considered to have health benefits. She would buy a 3 litre jar full of caviar and literally put a full table spoon of it on toast a tell me to eat. I never liked caviar much as a child so she used to tell me -Eat it as a medicine .
Now I love caviar but it’s soooo expensive. The same amount she used to put on my toast will cost me £120 now
$4.99-$6.99/lb in grocery stores all over New England
Wow it's maybe 12 Canadian dollars in Nova Scotia. That's maybe 8 to 10 USD
only on holidays, bud
Jeff Davis they also will steam it for you in the stores! If you’re ever in Massachusetts or New Hampshire. Find the closest Market Basket!
Dayvien PLAYZ lobster here in California costs between $12-$15 per pound
Not a Maine lobster 🦞
Lobsters taste exactly the same when you cook them after you killed em
You think so? I’ve never tried one dead and then cooked but then again who knows what I’ve eaten from some restaurants
@@joee4894 it doesn’t make a difference in taste i’m a chef myself and i’ve prepared a lot of Lobsters so you should put them out of their misery before you cook them. It’s also more humane to do it that way!!
@@miromenke Pretty sure the chef just meant "don't cook one that's already been dead for ?? how long" Yeah, if you humanely dispatch it and then straight into the pot? That's perfectly fine.
It's if they've been dead for a while. There's times when the waitors bring us a lobster and they're already dead, so we cant serve them like that. Killing them then cooking immediately after is the way to go.
I thought he was going to rip off the tail at 5:41
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38 dollars for a 4 ounce lobster roll?? Up north?? Lol what bullshit restaurant is this?? Lol oh never mind its in NYC....
There are alot of people with no value of money. People willing to throw away $38 bucks for a 4 oz Lobsta roll, are u kidding me. This restaurant is charging people, at least 4X what it costs them for a Lobsta, and making a killing. Eat up folks.
Is he close to wall st. or something where he can get away with that price?
hey if the market pays it, the market pays it
Man, I wont survive a day in NYC. Purely bourgeoisie fantasy land...
You could get a 20 ounce lobster roll for that much here!
I was in Boston back in the 80's and 2 whole lobsters/fries was $9.95. These Lobster men have a lot of investment, Overhead just to get on the water. Thank You Lobster Men for all you do.
Once when we went vacationing at Mt Dessert Island in Maine, we were eating whole steamed live caught that morning lobsters for $3-5 each! It was a "soft shell" but I couldn't tell any difference so we ate many many lobsters lol
2:38 For a better taste , chefs began cooking lobster alive ....
You cook them alive so you know they FRESH or you DIE from poisoning
Hey pumpkinhead...I've worked in the lobster industry for years, boats, pounds, packing and shipping them around the world...chef Ed is WRONG!!! We used to cook dead lobsters ALL the time and sell to the public without ANY problems whatsoever!!!!! You should twist the tail just a bit from the body, and smell the interior, if it smells bad chuck it... and NEVER COOK IT WITH THE BANDS ON THE CLAWS!!! Shame on you ed.... And ANOTHER thing, we mostly used menhaden for bait!!!!! Herring WAAAAY too expensive!!!!
Instead of herring, can’t they try chicken?
you think a lobster has evolved to prey on chicken? by the time the bait gets down there it would be swallowed up.
Kinda diff topic but when I travel to Vancouver for vacation I Always bring a little trip and captcha crabs and lobsters with dog food
C1 Ton Soup Chicken is probably more expensive than herring.
Always thought they could use fake crab meat, too. Looks enough like a meal
@@NewTony111 except that fake crab meat is much more expensive than herring
“Global warming is increasing lobster numbers” well I guess it’s time to start impulsively burning gasoline.
It’s like the ONE good thing that could possibly come out of global warming
@@samanthaweber2195 it's almost like the climate changes regardless of human impact and the world adapts to said changes like it always has
@@fate3071 I hope u r kidding...
@@fate3071 but not fast enough for most organisms to adapt to and prevent extinction
@@samanthaweber2195 it does change, but this one seems stupid.
Now I feel sad that I’m allergic to lobster and other crustacean, I tried it before my body reacted to crustacean and it tastes SO GOOD
"Served to prisoners"
Wish I was a damn prisoner..
Actually no. They actually began to hate it, they were primarily given that to eat.
@@jdamourep Because they didn't cook it properly, it was almost always boiled instead of steamed, and over cooked while boiling to boot, without any proper seasoning or sauces, such as salt and butter. That is why they got sick of it.
@javo no you don't wanna be in prison tf you mean
@@Perseverence111 I wonder too if they ate some that had been dead for a while? Mushy nasty slimy stinky stuff if they did.
I just got back from the Caribbean and paid 20 US for two 3 lb lobsters. Crazy how low the price gets when you curb regulation and let locals instead of large companies handle the distribution
probably not regulation, inland and places further from the sea have much higher prices for seafood, you are missing all the transportation costs needed to keep lobsters alive to where you live. Getting it from somewhere like the caribbean goes straight from caught to kitchen to plate, or even cheaper if you go find them yourself
becuase warm water lobsters are smaller and grow faster.
lobsters from the caribbean are trash
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TwilightFable so original dude
There is nothing gonna be expensive without your hard work
In Maritime Canada you can lobsters for $5. The McDonald's here even has McLobsters
Yeah lol I live in Québec and lobster are cheap
Actually went to ed's lobster bar 2019's Christmas. Was hella good
Why wasn’t the “observe” lobster on the paintings?!?!?
Ah, I see you're a man of culture, as well.
Living like Larry
My family knew fishemen when I was young and I took it for granted. I miss eating it all summer long :(
A friend mine that I ran with came from a very well connected family , every so often cases and cases of lobster would fall off trucks and we would find them
Those things were easy to move and we were left
With dozens of them
I ate so much lobster 🦞 1 summer I couldn’t touch it for 20 years
Was that friend tony soprano?😂
Ed looks like the older version of Damien from Smosh!
5:34 So in 2019 somehow if you eat lobster cooked dead you will "definitely gonna get sick" but somehow hundred years ago people ate it without problem until some chef decided to cook it alive for "better taste" just saying
In lobster season in eastern canada, you will pay 6-7$ cad (5$usd) per lbs in any groceries or 4$ cad at the dock. Out of the season its about 15$ cad (11.5 usd) per lbs. Also, lobster cant die from aging. Canada is the country who have the most lobster and have stricter rule regarding lobster fishing. You can also find easily lobster on the shore or scuba diving in nova scotia, new brunswick or in gaspesie,qc. Its also popular to eat in family lobster with garlic butter for mother's day
SO EXPENSIVE | how ramen became so expensive
Soon it will be why is water so expensive and this will happen after they start charging for oxygen....
79 years later: *wHy iS MiLk sO eXpEnSiVe?*
Lol. $38 for a lobster roll? I can go to the boardwalk in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia and get one for $12.
Ben McInnes because it is a Maine tourist trap
@@tkjho Clearly you've never been to Nova Scotia
Due to COVID19, since no one is going out for dinner anymore, the prices of Lobster in parts of Canada have dropped tremendously, shops offer lobsters as cheap as $10CAD for takeout.
Lobsters are a form of ocean insect ... you're eating bugs.
Delicious bugs...😍
this is wrong
Do you actually know what a bug is or are you talking our your ass mate lobsters aren’t bugs there crustaceans
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"but there was a time when they were known as cockroaches of the sea"
see?, from zero to hero.....so now have you consider doing something to cockroaches of the land?
if you go even further, then you also try cockroaches of the sky, and cockroaches of the space
no but you should try my cockroach mac n cheese! out of this world!
Video: Why are lobsters so expensive?
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4:49 Perfect timing :)😊😉👍
The breeds sounds like Harry Potter spells.
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