Uhh.. Lobster anyone? Maybe?

. There is a reason the Native americans used them for fertilizer and not a food item.

Because they were so plentiful-they did use them for a food item....dueing colonial times, lobster was considered a poverty food, and some workers actually had a "lobster clause" (snicker!) put into their contract, stating that their employer/indenture holder couldn't serve them lobster more than 3 times a week...
...lobster...mmmmmmm!
 
Because they were so plentiful-they did use them for a food item....dueing colonial times, lobster was considered a poverty food, and some workers actually had a "lobster clause" (snicker!) put into their contract, stating that their employer/indenture holder couldn't serve them lobster more than 3 times a week...
...lobster...mmmmmmm!

That's interesting... I didn't know that about lobsters. Tbe same thin is true about oysters in 18th c. England...
 
Because they were so plentiful-they did use them for a food item....dueing colonial times, lobster was considered a poverty food, and some workers actually had a "lobster clause" (snicker!) put into their contract, stating that their employer/indenture holder couldn't serve them lobster more than 3 times a week...
...lobster...mmmmmmm!

Thanks for the update! All the Native Americans I have talked to up here always told me they just used them for fertilizer, being how we are quite a distance from the coast it would probably make a difference. Glad for the new information. :asian:
 
Thanks for the update! All the Native Americans I have talked to up here always told me they just used them for fertilizer, being how we are quite a distance from the coast it would probably make a difference. Glad for the new information. :asian:


Well, yeah-by the time they got home with them, fertilizer is all they'd be good for, but you can be certain they ate some (and used some for bait) when they were on the coast. I'm brother to a Penobscot fellow, and his people are and have been quite fond of lobster....
 

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