For dinner tonight, we walk down to the lobster shack in Southwest Harbor. The price list says $11.45 for < 1⅜ pound and $12.45 for >1⅜ pound. That seems like a decent price, and not too high since there's a glut of lobster this year. At the stores, we can purchase it retail for $4/lb, so this seems like a fair mark-up.
Well, it always pays to read the fine print. They pick out big lobsters for us and put them on a scale. I assume it's to make sure it's over 1⅜ lb, but it's actually to get the real weight. Three of us order lobsters, and it turns out to be over 10lbs, at $12.45 per pound for the jumbo lobsters. So, instead of a 1.5 lb lobster for $12.45, we have now each bought a 3.4lb lobster for about $42. Live and learn.
Anthony, who has grown up eating these creatures, excitedly declares it "the most epic lobster ever!" Sure, people who really know lobster will tell us that the smaller ones are actually sweeter and better, but don't forget: this is a 3.4 pound lobster! It's the lobster that ate New Jersey! Run for your lives: It's Godzilla vs. Megalobsta!
Some prefer the chicken nuggets and fries, instead. Given the creepy-crawly factor, I can hardly blame them.
The setting is beautiful, right on the dock where the lobster boats come in. It's buoys and traps and quintessential Maine, right out of a picture postcard. And the lobster? Well, it's epic.
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