I must say dinner last night was full of laughs. I grew up eating lobster. Even my daughters eat lobster. I did have a cousin who feared lobsters so much that he would run and hide whenever my mom made them.
But I have been eating them for as long as I could remember. Steamed. In an amazing tomato sauce that my mom makes. Grilled. Chilled. You name it. I am always wary about ordering them out at restaurants while because I don’t always like how places clean them. I can’t see any green or it grossed me out. So normally I just eat it at home whole.
Luckily we know how to eat a whole lobster. So last night one of our girlfriends decided to order a whole one for the first time. She’s had parts of it. Lobster rolls etc...but never the whole deal. The other two girls always order it in the Cape. It’s their go to.
We then spent the time explaining how to open it. What meat to eat. Where to get the meat. How to crack the areas to pull out the meat and then...lots of laughs and fun.
Then the bus boy comes up to us.
He’s like you ladies did a great job. But you’re missing one part of the lobster to get the meat from.
He now had our attention...
He grabs the shell of the tail. Pulls off the end flaps and squeezes out the meat from the telcons- the little flaps on the end of the tail. We are all in shock. We had no idea. Now the amount of meat you get isn’t much. It’s like the legs of the lobster. But so fun to eat.
I had to take a video and send it to my mom. The lady who eats whole lobster straight out of the fridge for breakfast had no idea that she was missing some meat. But all jokes aside how many of you knew this?
