How to Properly Eat Lobster Served Whole

Jun 18
13:26

2009

Bryan Romanow

Bryan Romanow

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Imagine it; your significant other has surprised you with an extravagant cooked lobster meal for your birthday. With great pride they place a beautiful, whole, bright red lobster in front of you. Your smile freezes on your face. How on earth do you eat it without looking like some sort of caveman or cannibal? No worries. Properly eating a lobster served whole is much easier than you think.

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Legs are next.  You can strip off the meat in the same way as the claws with the spatula or you can use a toothpick to loosen the meat and then suck it out of the leg shell.  With the lobster boy upside down, pull the shell of the tail open and pull the tail meat out in one big piece.  The majority of the meat in a lobster is found in the tail and the claws so you just did most of the hard work.

Finally the body shell can be pulled open and you can use the spatula to pick out any white meat that you find.  This is also where the brains and intestine are found.  They are edible, but you may choose not to eat them if you wish.  Squeezing lemon over the cooked lobster increases its flavor or you may wish to soak each piece of meat you extract in drawn butter.  Any way you eat it, Maine lobsteris a mouth-watering delicacy.  Bon appétit!

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