I remember when I was a kid (an uncle was a fishermen in Glace Bay Harbor) and was told that lobster used to be considered the "Spam of the Sea" and it was generally used as garden fertilizer and as a food staple given to widows.

You were considered "poor" if you had lobster sandwiches in your lunch box at school more than twice a week.

I usually get in at least one "feed" (Cape Breton expression) of it a year and I like taking the cooked (and shelled) lobster and sauteing it in butter in a cast iron fry pan. Yum!

As they say in here in Glace Bay, "It is some good, b'ye."

Ian