I'd like to preface this whole thing by stating that I don't even like seafood. I tolerate a crab when my uncle makes them for a family get together, or when my family has fish sticks. Other than that, I couldn't care less about seafood. It's not my bag.
I'd also like to point out that I have a friend who will not eat lobsters, despite the fact that she lives in Maine, just because she cannot tolerate how they're killed/prepared. Until today, I honestly thought she was just being picky. I was horribly, horribly wrong.
My mother and I went to Red Lobster today. I promise you, I only agreed to go for the cheddar biscuits. The Caesar salad was actually pretty decent as well. Anyway, I got fried flounder and it was HORRIBLE, my mother got some sort of lobster pasta thing and it not only looked disgusting, but she was nauseous for the rest of the day.
AS IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH.
We were leaving the restaurant and my mother had to use the ladies room. I decided to wait in the front of the establishment for her... right next to the lobster tank. What I saw was absolutely horrifying. You all know that when you were little kids the lobster tank at a fancy seafood restaurant was the coolest thing to look at (not really calling Red Lobster "fancy," but you know what I mean.) Today, however, I found the lobster tank horribly upsetting. I was looking in at the lobsters, and one was sitting by himself in the corner of the tank. I swear to God he looked up at me. I'm not even kidding. I was staring back into the soul of a lobster. It then dawned on me that all my new found friends were in a tank... waiting to be boiled alive and eaten. Obviously, I have no real personal connection with a lobster, but in that moment I was struck with extreme sadness. It was then that I began to cry in the waiting area of Red Lobster. I blamed it on hormones and lied about having my period. I swear, it was the worst feeling I've felt in weeks.
I guess the real point of all this is that I won't be eating lobster for a long time, and if you love me, you won't either... or at least you don't tell me about it.
Chicken's ok though. Chickens are gross, and I'm a hypocrite with an apparent soft spot for crustaceans.
Oh my fucking shit. I can't even... like there are no words. 1) She cannot "tolerate" the way crabs are killed/prepared. Are u fucking kidding me. Tell me. What's the humane way to euthanize a crab or arthropod? Some species of crab and lobster have poison glands that will kill every crab around them when they die. So stabbing them and disk getting ppl sick is not worth it. And death by boiling is quick, besides the fact that they CAN'T FEEL PAIN. 2) I'm going to boil a lobster in celebration of your blog tonight.
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