If you're one that likes to suck that slimy green stuff out of a lobster, maybe you deserve to get just a little sick.

FTFA:

Health officials for years have advised against eating the tomalley, the lobster liver some regard as a delicacy.

I would think that the extraneous legs and mutant cockroach-like appearance would keep people from eating lobster.

LaChanz: If you're one that likes to suck that slimy green stuff out of a lobster, maybe you deserve to get just a little sick.

I see you're in Maine... my aunt used to live in Portland, and we ended up at DeMillo's on more than one occasion. I don't care how much garlic and butter they put on it, could never bring myself to eat lobster, even the esteemed Maine lobster. Slimy greenstuff, giant insectness... steak, please.

Peaceboy: steak, please

While I don't hate the taste of lobster, I don't find it all that great. I can't bring myself to order it when I'm out either. I'd much prefer the steak. Actually, I'd rather have a Big Mac.

ecmoRandomNumbers: mutant cockroach-like appearance

Dude, they are the cockroach of the sea. No -like needed.

So WHAT if they look like big bugs?
They're TASTY, you big silly lugs!
See, I'M not a nutter.
So, bring on the butter!
I swear, you guys MUST be on drugs.

Kinda wonder what these taste like.



/Kill it with fire steam

"and that fist stone-age connoisseur who looked at it and said 'I'ma eat that'"

/obscure?

Lobster's OK, but I ain't eatin' that slimy green goo.

OnmyojiOmn, it has a hamburger attached to its ass!

Coronach: "and that fist stone-age connoisseur who looked at it and said 'I'ma eat that'"

/obscure?

The meat of the lobster is rich.
Removing it? There lies the hitch.
The first guy to spy it,
And guess he should try it
Was one hungry son-of-a-biatch.

Wow, lots of lobster haters here. Lobster is great, but I've never heard of eating any green stuff.

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MMMM....

I've never seen tomalley eaten outside of the NE US. My grandfather would eat it if he caught the lobster, then again he would eat pretty much anything.

Omm: coconut crabs, which you can eat. I saw one once...freaking looking SOB that can crack open a coconut.

I've always heard eating the green goo was not necessarily the most healthy of decisions...but the meat - that's tasty.

Last guy I dated always told me the green goo was all you were supposed to eat. He was such a gentleman; always nice enough to eat the rest of the crap. What a nice man. I wonder whatever happened to him...

I can understand not wanting to try the green arse goo, but lobster flesh? Come on people. It's delicious. So what if it's a sea going insect? If cockroaches tasted that good covered in garlic butter then I'd have a crack at them too. Not sure if I'd pay £15 a kilo for them though.

I eat the tomalley. That's just how I roll.

whereisian Holy mother that is vile...

I've never had that part of a lobster before but where I come from, you eat pretty much all of the animal. Especially brain, which I've never been able to develop an appetite for.

If these were ever outlawed, I think my father and many other Turks would boycott food altogether.

Whilst on sabbatical near Truro, Mass I stuffed Myself with lobbies after getting drunk all day in the june Cape Cod sun. About 7 that evening I vomited a lobster/bile melange for a couple hours.
Since then I prefer king crab.

It was worth it though. We had a great time {before the vomit, that is}

Chances are if you eat lobster bisque, sauce or soup then you've eaten your fair share of tomalley. I don't know any chefs that'd remove it. Like so much in life it looks vile, but it's really rather tasty.
Cockroach liver and pancreas. Om nom nom.

Cool, is this turning into a macho food thread? coco ebert Is the first one some kind of tripe broth? I remember having some kind of chargrilled lamb's balls in pide when I was in Istanbul. Fantastic.

wldncrzy14: OnmyojiOmn, it has a hamburger attached to its ass!

damn, you owe me a keyboard.

/It does look like a burger tho

Love lobster and love tomally. And I'm sure that Iron Chef Scottish is right; lobster bisque wouldn't be as flavorful without a little lobster bile added to the broth.

myalias1845 Try it. You'll like it.

myalias1845: Last guy I dated always told me the green goo was all you were supposed to eat. He was such a gentleman; always nice enough to eat the rest of the crap. What a nice man. I wonder whatever happened to him...

Just a tip -- split and roasted on the grill or baked with butter, the tomalley turns red, just like the shell. That said, I'll usually just pass. Most of the meat is in the tail, anyway. It's okay, once and a while, 'tho.

Lobster is pretty tasty, but it's a lot of work getting that little bit of meat out of that shell.

The green Goo is actually its Poo....and its delicious

whereisian Try it. You'll like it. Isn't that what people always say just before the victim dies some horrible death? No thanks Darwin.

/ps saw your profile: Hockey rocks
//Go Sharks...and Kings...working on converting since the move to LA...

Yankees Team Gynecologist

Is it really you? I knew you were just playing hard-to-get with the restraining order...they always do...

Iron Chef Scottish: Cool, is this turning into a macho food thread? coco ebert Is the first one some kind of tripe broth? I remember having some kind of chargrilled lamb's balls in pide when I was in Istanbul. Fantastic.

You got it! :) The tripe soup (ishkembe) is usually eaten after a night of partying with a healthy dose of grape vinegar added for good measure. The second picture is kokorech, which is made of lamb's "intestines" and is outlawed in the EU. They say that Greeks come over just to eat it. See, we can all get along!

myalias1845: Is it really you? I knew you were just playing hard-to-get with the restraining order...they always do...

You can breach my 100-foot radius anytime.

Lobster is best eaten light-years away, where the least similarity to human forms is eagerly grasped. Perhaps you are in the clutches of an alien race and offered the dish as part of a good-cop routine.

Otherwise why the fark would you eat that?

coco ebert: I've never had that part of a lobster before but where I come from, you eat pretty much all of the animal. Especially brain, which I've never been able to develop an appetite for.

If these were ever outlawed, I think my father and many other Turks would boycott food altogether.

When my sister and I were kids our dad took us to one of those malls in Richmond (BC) full of Asian stores (my mom is rather an origami addict). We went to get lunch and he ordered what he thought the cook said was beef strips... it was beef tripe. Neither of us tried it, although I think he ate some of it.

Probably still wouldn't try it today, honestly, although I'm glad you seem to enjoy it. ;D

Lobsters are awesome. Will eat tomalley too.

myalias1845: Yankees Team Gynecologist

Is it really you? I knew you were just playing hard-to-get with the restraining order...they always do...

"I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! Whyyyy didn't you believe me?!"

PINCHY!!!!

LaChanz: I can't bring myself to order it when I'm out either.

I just won't pay the price for one.

My Dad tells me tales of his days in the Guard, when they could go to just about any dock in Maine and pick up "damaged" lobsters (ones missing claws, or too big, that won't go to the restaurant contracts...) and buy them for fark nothing because they were garbage.

That was over twenty years ago, though, and we've long since lost all our contacts in that area, so I have no idea if that's still the case. I'd imagine it isn't. Though if it was, I'd be taking a little vacation and coming back with a moving truck full of tails and claws on ice. =D~


Chicken wings were considered the "garbage" off the bird then, too. Butchers used to give big bags of them out to the poor because nobody else would eat them. Now they're the most expensive part of the chicken. Ah... marketing.

In 1997, I went on vacation with my future wife. We had been dating for about two months, and her parents took me to Cape Cod. I thought I'd be the big fancy-pants and take her out for lobster. The kitchen staff all laughed at me because I didn't know how to eat it, and then I ended up throwing up from food poisoning all night. Haven't eaten lobster since.


wldncrzy14: OnmyojiOmn, it has a hamburger attached to its ass!

That's uncanny. Sesame seeds and everything.

JonnyBGoode
Well if we're going there...


"No sir, I don't like it"....green sh*t that is...

I'm from 207 so i'm getting a kick out of these replies.

MMMMMMmmmm PCBs

As a life-long lobster fiend (and from coastal New England), I don't dig on the tomalley myself.

get 2-pounders (more edible meat per pound) with big-ass tails
don't name them
nutcracker and a fork

nom nom nom, ocean bugs

@Arkcon: Just a tip -- split and roasted on the grill or baked with butter, the tomalley turns red, just like the shell.

Pretty sure that's the coral, or lobster roe. It's greenish-black when the lobster is raw, then turns red when cooked.

@Coco Ebert: The second picture is kokorech, which is made of lamb's "intestines" and is outlawed in the EU. They say that Greeks come over just to eat it. See, we can all get along!

My in-laws are Greek and we have kokoretsi grilled on the spit every Easter. Delicious! Never had it in sandwich form - looks like the Mother of All Steak Sandwiches.

Slimy?

Okra innerds are slimy. Tomalley is more mushy, slightly gritty.

Actually, I'd rather have a Big Mac.
Slimy greenstuff, giant insectness... steak, please.

Lots of gourmets in here I see.

the tomalle is the 2nd best part, after the eggs on the females. its about taste, not texture. and true lobster eaters eat it cold, without any butter or whatever crap is put on it.

wldncrzy14: OnmyojiOmn, it has a hamburger attached to its ass!

HAHAHAHAHAH AWESOME!!

I've seen that pic a hundred times and never noticed that. Good jerb!

/unless some pixels have been shooped