Good day all. Last week a story came out about a Maine restaurant that wants to get lobsters high before cooking them. They claim it’s “More humane.”
The original story, from Fox News, seemed laughable on it’s face. Lobsters, besides being very tasty dipped in melted butter, have brains the size of a pea. They really aren’t going to feel anything, and I haven’t heard of any complaints by the lobsters on how they were cooked.
What I think this was all about, was some of the cooks getting baked themselves and deciding that they could indulge their habit by claiming that it was good for the lobsters if they were stoned out of their tiny brains before they were steamed, boiled or baked. According to the Fox News story:
In the restaurant’s first experiment into the process, a lobster — nicknamed “Roscoe” — was placed into a box with a few inches of water at the bottom, and marijuana smoke was then blown through the water, into the box.
Gill, also a licensed medical marijuana caregiver in the state of Maine, claims Roscoe was much calmer and less aggressive for the subsequent three weeks, and didn’t try to attack the other lobsters in his tank even though his claws were unbound.
Please! This is utter and complete nonsense. I have no idea if giving a lobster pot before dropping them into the pot has any actual effect on them. However, it does seem that the Maine health inspectors aren’t amused at the idea. In a follow up story from Fox News:
Maine government officials are not down with getting lobsters baked before boiling them alive, and have declared the practice illegal after Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound, made headlines for her unusual pre-cooking methods.
Maine health inspectors said the “food served to consumers at licensed eating places and affected by marijuana, as has been described with this establishment, as adulterated and therefore illegal,” the New York Times reports.
The decision was made by the department because regulators do not currently “have information on the health implications or effects of ‘sedating’ lobsters with marijuana,” the Times reports.
One of the issues would be, how will a stoned lobster’s tasty meat affect the diner? Will there be a second hand THC effect? Will a diner, after eating a lobster that had been reenacting a Cheech and Chong movie develop second hand munchies?
I also wonder how they will change the menu? Will the wait staff ask, “Would you like your lobster to be baked before we boil it, or boiled before we steam it? This is just a stupid idea by someone looking at a way to smoke weed in the kitchen. Nice try though.
Thatisall
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