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(ASmith1946) wrote in
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> TMO wrote:
>>...and then there were the servants of 18th century littoral New
>>England on several occasions revolting against the practice of
>>being fed on lobster, then the cheapest of seafood products.
>
> I've read this for years in secondary sources. Anyone ever found a
> primary source that said this?

The farmers of Prince Edward Island, well-known for its lobsters,
never ate them, but picked up beached ones and ground them into the
soil as fertilizer. Tourism made lobsters an industry commodity.

There's a related passage in the film Mystic Pizza where the daughter
of a lobster fisherman goes to dinner to the home of her new rich
boyfriend and lo and behold, they are serving a real treat...lobster.
When she sawthe rich people all agog over lobster, she burst out
laughing. The thing was, she ate lobster at home when there was no
real food because there was not enough money to buy food. To her, it
was poor people's food.

What is one man's meat...

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"I'm the master of low expectations."

GWB, aboard Air Force One, 04Jun2003