Lobster season is getting underway. In some areas. Not just around here, but in other areas as well.
I happened upon a story the other day about a person in Maine who caught a two colour lobster. Not your usual lobster by any means.
This lobster was half normal lobster colour and half blue. The story actually called it half red and half blue, but it was normal lobster colour, which, as many of us know, is kind of green. Most lobsters probably find the colour red a bit disturbing, since it is generally the result of placing them near a heat source of some sort.
But this lobster was half blue and half that usual lobster green, split right down the middle. It was also half male and half female. Their tails and feet have slight differences, so they could tell. But it was highly unusual. Only about one in fifty million lobsters will look like this.
Which raises a number of questions in my mind.
First, did the guy who caught it rush out and buy a lottery ticket? Because catching a one in fifty million lobster would have me running out to try my luck elsewhere… just in case.
And, what colour does a blue lobster turn when you cook it? And what does it taste like?
You hear about the occasional lobster of a different colour being caught every so often. Some are a brownish colour, some are blue, some are orange. They come in a variety of colours. You just don’t see them very often. And the truly unusual ones tend to get rescued and released or given to aquariums to be preserved. Actually, the New England Aquarium was hoping to get this two coloured one donated.
But I can’t say I’ve ever had a different coloured lobster, so I can only say that the normal lobster, when it gets a little too cozy with a heat source, will turn red. We know that. But what colour do these other lobsters turn? Do they all turn red? Do they all taste the same?
These are questions I would like to answer. I just need to catch fifty million lobsters to get one to try it on. And maybe use the others just for comparison.