I think they're called "lobsters"

No claws. Not a lobster. I would like to think I would have thrown it back, being so old.

Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster

Plz pass butter/lemon. kkthx.

for my butter subby not my nightmares.

KTrout17: I think they're called "lobsters"

yeah rock lobsters.

/approves

I'll never understand why pulling a cockroach out of water suddenly makes it so much more appealing to eat.

Jones_Boy: No claws. Not a lobster. I would like to think I would have thrown it back, being so old.

That's technically true, but a lot of restaurants will sell the tails as lobster. If they're a little more honest than most, they'll call them rock lobsters.

Because you know when Fred Schneider says "LET'S ROCK!", he really means it.

I thought crayfish / crawdad was a fresh water crustacean. Isn't Queen Charlotte Sound saltwater?

Global Warming is good for some species.

Jones_Boy: No claws. Not a lobster. I would like to think I would have thrown it back, being so old.

Not all lobsters have claws. The spiny lobsters common to Florida don't have any claws. I like to call them "safety lobsters".

It's survived 50 years in a hostile environment -- let's EAT it!

/Here's your gold watch -- OM NOM NOM

TheHappTroll: I thought crayfish / crawdad was a fresh water crustacean. Isn't Queen Charlotte Sound saltwater?

This is what I thought too. Fresh water.

Better than catching crabs.

TheHappTroll: I thought crayfish / crawdad was a fresh water crustacean. Isn't Queen Charlotte Sound saltwater?

That's what I was thinking, but apparently we and NZ have our common names for critters mixed up. It happens. See also: Elk, Buffalo, (O)Possum.

When there wasn't no crawdad, we ate sand.

fireclown: Jones_Boy: No claws. Not a lobster. I would like to think I would have thrown it back, being so old.

Not all lobsters have claws. The spiny lobsters common to Florida don't have any claws. I like to call them "safety lobsters".

Those are actually rock lobsters, which are actually crawfish, which is what this is. Just a seriously big one.

That's so big, it's cray-zy!

\be here all night
\\enjoy the lobster

/Oh, wait...

Chinchillazilla: Imagine living fifty years just to get dragged out of the water on a hook by a little kid.

One of those "kids" managed to kill my entire crew.

FTFA:However, the family had already eaten the lobster on Christmas Day. They said it tasted delicious.

..would it? wouldn't it be tough? Well, it's something little Jimmy caught and it fed the whole family, so that's cool, and you can drown it in butter to make it go down... but I don't have a lot of experience with aged crawdad.


testaclese: /Here's your gold watch -- OM NOM NOM

I LOL'D.

Oh, you mean a claw shrimp.

Not a crayfish in any normal sense. Crayfish is Kiwi for spiny lobster or langouste. All are delicious.

Real Crayfish


Spiny Lobster

At 50 years old, that thing probably had an absurd amount of mercury in it...

boobsrgood: Humans aren't good for any species. When America signed the Constitution, fishermen were pulling 300lb lobsters out of the water regularly all along the East coast. Now 3lbs is "good eatin".

300 lb lobsters?

Jake Havechek: When there wasn't no crawdad, we ate sand.

Back in Sweden, we would eat snow, when times were hard.

Chinchillazilla: Jake Havechek: When there wasn't no crawdad, we ate sand.

You ate what?

We ate sand.

/loves that part

That's totes cray cray.

Jones_Boy: No claws. Not a lobster. I would like to think I would have thrown it back, being so old.

Wut? Methinks you know squat about lobsters.

This is a maine lobster:



This is a rock lobster:

why is it always an 8 year old kid pulling this shiat up...I mean, seems the 50 year old drunk dude would be a more likely recipient

Jake Havechek: Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster

I love Family Guy

TheHappTroll: I thought crayfish / crawdad was a fresh water crustacean. Isn't Queen Charlotte Sound saltwater?

Those silly Enzedders with their inverted, Southern-hemisphere terms for things. In the Top Half we call mini freshwater lobsters Crawfish or Crayfish or Crawdads, and warm-saltwater lobsters with no claws Spiny Lobsters or Langoustes. Down There they call them Crayfish, even though they have native Murray River Crayfish which look a lot like lobsters, but that's what they call Spinies. Murray Crayfish are big ol' suckers, but not the biggest*. It's even mentioned in the Wiki.

*For REALLY big crayfish, there's the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish.

Pinch the head and suck the tail

dryknife
Pinch the head and suck the tail

Dammit, i thought that was for the girlfriend

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Jones_Boy: No claws. Not a lobster. I would like to think I would have thrown it back, being so old.

Wut? Methinks you know squat about lobsters.

This is a maine lobster:

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This is a rock lobster:
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Yeah. That thing you call a rock lobster is scientifically classified as a crawfish. Antennas are different, no pincers on front walking feet, yadda yadda yadda. They look the same, but they are different. They even taste different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiny_lobster versus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster

StoPPeRmobile: Chinchillazilla: Jake Havechek: When there wasn't no crawdad, we ate sand.

You ate what?

We ate sand.

/loves that part

Oh goddamnitsomuch how did I miss this?!

/that is the reason why I call it crawdad to this day, despite being a Yankee.

I'm just going to leave these here:

boobsrgood: machoprogrammer: At 50 years old, that thing probably had an absurd amount of mercury in it...

boobsrgood: Humans aren't good for any species. When America signed the Constitution, fishermen were pulling 300lb lobsters out of the water regularly all along the East coast. Now 3lbs is "good eatin".

300 lb lobsters?

Yup.

The world record for a lobster is over 40 lbs. I believe 30 lb lobsters would be common back then.

A 300 lb lobster would be the size of a human.

Arthropods are our ancient enemy. They preyed upon our ancestors without remorse. Kill them all, I say.

/500 million year old grudge

linuxpyro: I'm just going to leave these here:

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GhostFish: Arthropods are our ancient enemy. They preyed upon our ancestors without remorse. Kill them all, I say.

/500 million year old grudge

I concur. Even in the post apocalyptic future Mirelurks are kicking my ass in the flooded tunnels of the DC metro.



/and don't get me started on that Mirelurk King!!