Posted
on July 5, 2013
Today
is the start of the 79th Annual Pictou Lobster Carnival!
Lobster
boat races.
A
lobster banding competition.
Two
parades and a couple of pageants.
Fishing
events and a “Run for the Lobster.”
More
races, a dog show, a treasure hunt, and more.
And
of course yummy food (lots of lobster!), entertainment, and a midway
full of fun for the whole family.
Did
you know...?
- Many people consider lobster dipped in drawn butter delicious, and restaurants often offer lobster as the most expensive dish on the menu. However, it wasn't always that way. The sorts of lobster that we eat used to be so common in northern-latitude coastal towns, it was considered a food for the poor. Some people would use the meat as fertilizer for crops rather than as a prized delicacy. There were even laws prohibiting people from feeding their servants lobster more than twice a week!
- Lobsters are bottom-dwellers who eat just about anything. They mostly eat fish and mollusks, but they will also eat algae, other plants, and even other lobsters!
Lobsters
can live up to 50 years, growing larger and larger the whole time.
When they get too big for their shell, lobsters molt, or shed their
shell and grow a new one. During the time that they are soft and
fragile, before the new shell has hardened, lobsters bury themselves
in the mud so they don't get eaten.
- Lobsters are usually dark green or greenish brown (although they are sometimes other colors such as blue, white, yellow, orange, red, or black). The reason we think of lobsters as red is because they all turn bright red when they are cooked.
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