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Lobster
On 4 Feb 2004 11:08:16 GMT, (bogus address)
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>>> I have not seen it in a primary source. My memory of the account I did
>>> see was that it was a contract in which A was borrowing B's indentured
>>> servants, and agreeing not to feed them lobster more than X days a week.
>> I've heard a similar story for sturgeon, i.e. loggers signing
>> contracts for eating sturgeon only three days a week. Don't recall
>> seeing a primary source on this story either...
I have read in a history (secondary source) that apprenticeship
indentures in archives up and down the Connecticut River contain
clauses limiting the frequency of salmon servings. This was during
colonial times. The river was dammed and otherwise closed to salmon
before 1800.
Everything tastes better when it gets scarce and expensive. We happily
pay 10 USD for a pound of fresh codfish these days. I can remember
when almost all of it would go to canneries and drying facilities.
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>And there is a similar urban legend about a contract for servants in
>London in the 18th or 19th century, the fish being salmon. No primary
>source I know of for that one, either.
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