Not much makes me do a double take these days. In case you haven’t noticed?
People be crazy.
But this local story was worth a second look.
Giving new meaning to the term baked lobster.
Yes, there is a woman in Maine who owns a restaurant.
Yes, she serves lobster.
And yes, she has decided to get them high before cooking them to alleviate their pain.
Indeed.
You can now request your lobster to be sedated with pot before he goes in the…. well,
Pot.
I’m told the cooked lobster tastes better after the smoking, but then again…. doesn’t everything?
So in closing, may I just say….
#1. It’s official, I’ve now seen everything.
And #2. Speaking from the vast experience of an extremely misspent youth, there is no amount of weed, no matter how potent… that will lessen the effect of being thrown into a vat of boiling water.
(And if you can prove me wrong on that one, please PM me immediately.)
River's world..... 
Ok get me high then you can cook me. I’m sure I’m an acquired taste but worth it.
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Wait. I’m not a lobster – I must be high already
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It’s not beyond the realm of possibility…
😉
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Ummm…
***just a thought here***
how “high” would we have to be to believe we were people, and not the lobsters we (really) are?
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Interesting….
When you find out, let me know!
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“…..Their nervous system is pretty primitive. They probably don’t have the ability to process pain.” <—-so why is everyone up in arms?? …er…..or claws or …
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They may not process it like humans, but they react to stimulus and buck when they hit that hot water…. so the poor things are feeling something. And it ain’t good!
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I’m convinced they feel pain.
One of the New England states passed legislation that lobsters have to have their spinal cords severed BEFORE being dropped into the pot.
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Really? I live here and never heard that…
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Maybe it’s Switzerland, not New England:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/switzerland-lobster-boiling-banned/index.html
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Ha! No wonder I didn’t hear about it….
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I enjoyed your punny post.
Your ideas are definitely not half-baked!
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No, but the lobsters are!
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No pun intended, right, nrhatch?! 😁
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I assume she also has some of the most mellow customers around, seeing as some of that pot must make its way through to the served meal. And I bet those customers order seconds, and maybe even thirds.
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Actually, they ran tests on diners after consuming the treated lobsters and it didn’t show up. Go figure…
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Darn. I was thinking it might be a great marketing concept!
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Well, either way she’s getting a lot of free publicity.
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PUHLEEZE!!!! You are way too young to have seen everything–plus you haven’t been to South Florida where they feed octopussies with ‘Molly’!
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Okay, almost everything!
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I just watched a piece on YouTube about this! All I could wonder is–do you get a contact high when you eat the lobster? I mean, I don’t really care for lobster or marijuana…so that’s all around a “no” from me. LOL
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They’ve done studies, and apparently not. Which probably disappoints a lot of customers…
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The local radio morning show I listen to every day does a segment called “News Headlines” where they pick out the strangest or grossest or freakiest stories they can find. This story made that segment. I laughed and now I’m laughing again!
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Oh wow. Okay. So that’s a thing.
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