Consider the Lobster

[bec_87rb]

On Sunday morning, we went to Wegman's Grocery and as I tooled up the seafood aisle we passed a display of live lobster on ice. I hate that thing. The thought of lobsters slowly and painfully drying out, asphyxiating perhaps, makes me feel a little hysterical sometimes, as if I am witness to a major historical atrocity, and I do nothing. Only I

Comments

[ellisbell]

I feel sorry for them too. I love your descriptions.

[bec_87rb]

Oh, thank you. I should have taken a picture to share. Poor beast. I'm finding I can't eat lobster, and not out of some high-minded principle, I just see them live awaiting execution, and it puts me off the idea.

[chhinnamasta]

Fiery orange? Are you sure it was alive? They turn that color when cooked, with the occasional rare exception:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/07/05/quebec-rare-orange-lobster.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050214/full/news050214-4.html

They are greenish brown otherwise.

[bec_87rb]

Yes, he had brown on him, and he had to be living, unless he was a very clever animatronic lobster for display purposes. Like this! only with more fiery orange around the edges, and more attitude

[bec_87rb]

REALLY? I did not know. So they just get bigger and bigger and ... wow. So, theoretically, they could live to be like, man-sized? Or do they stop molting at some age?