....how to ruin a lobster in one easy step

Its very tasty, but I do prefer crab meat.

Not really! It really does improve the taste in my view. Just a very little bit salad cream though. Too much WOULD ruin it.

"the world is your lobster"

A Daley 1976

Absolutely love it, shame it costs so much in the UK. Had it in Mexico and the U.S. for a fraction of the price of here and it was superb.

I had some this month last year at a fish restaurant in Boston during a roadtrip around the USA and it cost approximately $30.

With it, I got a side of corn on the cob, chips and some butter to put on the lobster. I had some on the sweetcorn too.

It was the best ever meal I had in 2015, the only drawback was how tough and time consuming it was breaking the damn shell open to get to the meat! Otherwise, absolutely SUPERB!

A waitress even gave me a bib for me to wear whilst eating the lobster as it was VERY greasy!

It's nice, but it does taste very similar to prawn. I suppose people mainly go for it for the eating experience(i.e. cracking the claws open and digging the flesh out, etc.).

A big Cornish Crab probably has more meat in it, but a slightly different flavour and texture to its flesh.

Scallops are probably my favourite shellfish though.

Really? I don't think it tastes like prawn at all. I don't eat it for the experience, infact I would never order a whole lobster as I can't be done with the shell cracking.

Lobster tails are affordable now. Yes, they're frozen, but poach them in garlic butter and you'll hardly notice the difference.

I love Lobster, but I feel embarrassed trying to eat it at a restaurant as I don't really know how to do it. Therefore, I never order it.

Yes but it's so expensive. Think they're about £20 each at Billingsgate!

That's why I only ever order Lobster Tails and not the whole thing.

I really like it, I've had it a couple of times, I had a fab surf and turf in the US that had a lobster tail with it. I love all seafood though, I'm yet to have something I've not liked (the same goes for meat in general actually!).


I think it's got a completely different taste to prawns. I can't imagine anyone actually buying it just for the experience of dismantling it, if given the choice I always prefer to have seafood de-shelled.

I have only tried it once and didn't enjoy it.

We had gone to The Cheshire Cheese Pub at Longnor in the Staffordshire part of the Peak District and one of our friends had lobster thermidor and asked if I would like to try it knowing I like fish, I tried a fork full and that was enough never again.

Apparently lobster used to be peasant food - they were plentiful in coastal areas and rich people didn't want to eat them, so the fishermen sold the fish and ate the lobsters.

Interesting. Similar to the fact that they used to pass monkfish off as scampi as no-one wanted it.

I've had it three times. Once down south, once in Goa and most recently at burger and lobster at St. Paul's.

I find it so-so, the taste is nothing really special to me so I'd not order it again. I also find it difficult to eat and end up wasting the claw meat and other bits that need cracking open to get the flesh out.

Love it, and ritually every New year's eve we have it with fries.

(Agree getting the leg meat is flipping annoying

Do you have butter with it too?

I like lobster, but think that it is highly overrated.

So is shrimp, to a lesser degree.

I much prefer scallops. Oh, Lordy, do I like them! *drool*

I love scallops but they are expensive here for the big ones.
Sometimes I'll buy a pack of small ones, fry in butter until crisp on the outside, squirt with lemon juice. Yum, I eat them straight out of the pan.

See i'm the opposite. I quite like scallops but I don't really get why they are so expensive.

Most crabsticks don't contain any crab at all, just minced fish with flavouring.

I bought my dad a frozen lobster for £5.99 a couple of years ago, so they aren't always expensive.

I've tried lobster on holiday in Dorset and Cornwall locally caught but they always serve it cold.

In Chinese restaurants they serve it whole and hot.
It's only nice if the claw and tail parts are sweet. It is often bitter.
I prefer scallops and huge prawns.

Love Lobster.