You Can Fit a Country Between Two Adjectives
Posted by Daniel Lyons Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:03:00 GMT
Reid tells me about the lobster fishing industry. (It’s called fishing, even though the right word for it is trapping: they have cages, they trap lobsters in them.) While he was in Boston walking along the wharf, he and his father ran into a lobster fisherman. This fisherman informs him that 3/4ths of the lobsters they catch are underweight, so they get sent off to Canada to live in a lobster farm until they’re big enough. And this is true of all American lobster fishing. Lobsters, apparently, favor the colder clime.
So, while it’s true that your Fresh Maine Lobster is freshly caught, and while it’s true that it is originally from Maine, it’s quite likely that after the lobster was caught and before it was freshly, it lived in Canada for a while.
Fresh (Canadian-raised, originally from) Maine Lobster.
