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Poncey deli has opened nearby and it's selling live lobster

94 replies

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 22/08/2009 17:38

FGS. It's a lovely shopping street and there are some really nice shops along there. Some are getting a bit bunting cupcake though and this deli is particularly so.

I rather think there's no need for it. The live lobster. The staff in silly poncey uniforms. The "trying to hard to be twee" decor and all that Farrow & Ball green paint. You know the shade.

Grumble, grumble...

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VulgarAchesButCanRun5k · 22/08/2009 19:55

I'm a sucker for those packets of things in natural brown cardboard.

they could sell me any old crap and I'd think it was great.

i feel sad for the lobster tho'.

chichichien · 22/08/2009 19:57

lol @ nothing wsorse than people selling dead crabs.

Heavnes, it happens all the time

LynetteScavo · 22/08/2009 20:33

Mary, are you near the Sea?

OrangeFish · 22/08/2009 20:39

Alive lobster on ice??? aren't they suppose to have them in water tanks?

LynetteScavo · 22/08/2009 20:54

They have them on ice with rubber bands on their claws.

Does anyone actually cook thier own lobster?

Surely if you have fresh lobster you also have staff to buy it and cook it?

Or maybe you have a large bike with a wicker basket on the front to cycle to the high street in your wax jacket and headscarf to select the finest lobster, in the style or Mrs Forbes - Hamilton?

southeastastra · 22/08/2009 20:57

aw go and buy him and set him free in the local duck pond

LynetteScavo · 22/08/2009 21:07

Can you keep a lobster as a pet?

I do so love lobsers, and insist on visiting the lobster hatchery at Padstow every year, much to DH's bemusement.

SomeGuy · 22/08/2009 21:32

the lobster would die in the duck pond, as they need salt water.

LovelyTinOfSpam · 22/08/2009 21:36

I cooked a crab which I bought live in france on a group holiday last year.

We put it in a bucket of salt water until cooking time. The children were v interested, we all went to see if it was still alive and breathing and stuff. I felt like I was doing a "where food comes from" type service .

It was delicious, the kids loved it, and no-one got food poisoning (phew).

The vegetarian mummy in our midst was not amused.

southeastastra · 22/08/2009 21:38

your local seaside resort then

SomeGuy · 22/08/2009 21:42

best way to keep shellfish at home is on ice, it keeps them alive for longer as they are cold. Fresh water drowns them

Original poster
MaryMotherOfCheeses · 22/08/2009 21:42

Lynnette, sort of but I don't think our bit of the Bristol Channel really qualifies as sea. Lobster must have been caught elsewhere and is perhaps trying to pass itself off as local.

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LovelyTinOfSpam · 22/08/2009 21:43

lynette larry the lobster, a happy tale

And yes apparently they make good pets

vixma · 22/08/2009 21:46

Depends, live lobster thing, in our local fish restaurant the lobsters pincers are taped and sitting on a shelf....did not like that, a) I am a vegetarian b) it is not fresh as it looked like it had been there for a while. I don't eat meat/fish but when you go to Europe the Lobsters are in an aquarium, other veggies would batter me for saying this but that is better than a shelf. I do not eat fish (defences up). But I am not gonna plough in and be a pain in the ass, even though I have strong beliefs. Oh, crumbs, hope I havent said anything to P anyone off.

LovelyTinOfSpam · 22/08/2009 21:46

I just stuff my mussels in the fridge. After all they are out of the water for some hours while the tide is out so it's fine.

Also got stacks of mussels in france and got the kiddies to debeard them for me. 5 kilos. Man I love shellfish

southeastastra · 22/08/2009 21:49

aw he will join larry and dale

they can live up to 80 years old! i think we should try not to eat too many of them

southeastastra · 22/08/2009 21:50

that article is from 2003 i wonder if he's still there

Ninks · 22/08/2009 21:51

HALT!

AIBU Police!

Fascinating stuff but can you fashion the outrageous ponciness into a question?

We want to be all judgy. Well I do anyway...

LovelyTinOfSpam · 22/08/2009 21:53

As with all seafood, only take the bigger ones, give the poor blighters a chance to reproduce.

It made me so sad when in Greece tiny little octopi (sp?) and things were put on the plates as a garnish almost.

Ditto whitebait. Leave it alone it's just little baby fishes apparently, not a special small fish called whitebait. Also avoid eel wherever possible, apparently. I know how difficult that can be though !

LovelyTinOfSpam · 22/08/2009 21:55

SEA course he is, he'll get his telegram from teh queen soon!

Goblinchild · 22/08/2009 21:56

Didn't Oscar Wilde have a pet lobster that he took for walks in the High Street when he was at Oxford?
They're a much prettier colour when they're alive.

southeastastra · 22/08/2009 21:57

aw spam i hope so.

it's so sad how we fish to extreme

Ninks · 22/08/2009 21:59

Agreed r.e poor whitebait.

I would avoid eel anyway, it is beyond grim.

LovelyTinOfSpam · 22/08/2009 22:06

Are sprats and whitebait the same thing?

I used to like sprats...

LynetteScavo · 22/08/2009 22:10

Oscar Wilde took a lobster for a walk? It moust have taken ages, I can't imagine a lobster can walk very fast!