On Jun 27, 5:48*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
>
> I was 9 I think when I had my first lobster. I was already a huge
> fried shrimp fan, and my parents and I went on vacation to Chicago.
> Because it was s special occasion they let me get the lobster. My
> mother said she was anticipating having fun watching me eat a whole
> lobster, but it turned out to be just a huge (to me at the time) hunk
> of lobster tail meat. And I fell in love! It became and remains one of
> my favorite foods.

You had lobster in Chicago? Where is Food Slob to chime in and berate
your for not tasting your first lobster on the Maine coast?