The Lobster That Almost Came to Dinner
Lobster in the Caribbean is probably one of the most popular dishes despite the lofty price they fetch. The Lobster Grille at the Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas charges $40 (1 ½ lbs.,) $48 (2 lbs.,) $60 (3 lbs.,) $74 (4 lbs.,) and if it’s bigger than that, their menu says, “We’ll talk.”
Bruce met the lobster.
Four pounds seems like a lot of lobster but they get a heck of a lot bigger than that. The largest on record was 3 feet long and weighed a whopping 26 pounds!
Not only do they come in all sizes, they have many different names; spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster and crayfish. But despite their differences they all have one thing in common…great taste.
Recently, Bruce returned to the boat to tell me that Foxy Callwood of Jost Van Dyke had kindly offered him a bag of fresh fish. Unfortunately, Bruce had to decline because we no longer eat fish in the islands, having almost been killed by one that was ciguatoxic.
Foxy's grandson, Adrienne, isn't sure of the beast.
Foxy understood but he really wanted to share his days catch so he handed Bruce a box containing a good sized lobster and said, “Now don tell me ya don eat dis.”
Bruce’s’ incorrect reply was, “No, Foxy, we don’t.”
When he relayed the story to me back on the boat I looked at him in disbelief and squawked, “A lobster didn’t try to kill us, ya know!”
An hour later, back on shore, we watched as Foxy took a piece of fishing line in one hand, that big lobster in the other and flipped it around like a cowboy roping cattle. In a matter of a minute that lobster was bound and tied like Houdini in a tank of water.
Foxy ropes it up.
I was perplexed so I asked, “Foxy, why’d you tie it up?”
He held it up to show us and replied, “So he don splash all de wata from de pot.”
Ready for the pot.
That tidy lobster went to dinner at a young lady’s house and we had beans and rice.
Bruce met the lobster.
Four pounds seems like a lot of lobster but they get a heck of a lot bigger than that. The largest on record was 3 feet long and weighed a whopping 26 pounds!
Not only do they come in all sizes, they have many different names; spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster and crayfish. But despite their differences they all have one thing in common…great taste.
Recently, Bruce returned to the boat to tell me that Foxy Callwood of Jost Van Dyke had kindly offered him a bag of fresh fish. Unfortunately, Bruce had to decline because we no longer eat fish in the islands, having almost been killed by one that was ciguatoxic.
Foxy's grandson, Adrienne, isn't sure of the beast.
Foxy understood but he really wanted to share his days catch so he handed Bruce a box containing a good sized lobster and said, “Now don tell me ya don eat dis.”
Bruce’s’ incorrect reply was, “No, Foxy, we don’t.”
When he relayed the story to me back on the boat I looked at him in disbelief and squawked, “A lobster didn’t try to kill us, ya know!”
An hour later, back on shore, we watched as Foxy took a piece of fishing line in one hand, that big lobster in the other and flipped it around like a cowboy roping cattle. In a matter of a minute that lobster was bound and tied like Houdini in a tank of water.
Foxy ropes it up.
I was perplexed so I asked, “Foxy, why’d you tie it up?”
He held it up to show us and replied, “So he don splash all de wata from de pot.”
Ready for the pot.
That tidy lobster went to dinner at a young lady’s house and we had beans and rice.
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