It's Showdown Time!!

VS

It might be more appropriate for me to say smackdown time. The issue at hand is of course the photo on the left, versus the photo on the right. The creature on the left is known as the Atlantic, or sometimes New England, Lobster. The creature on the right is known as the Pacific or Spiny Lobster. Does anyone notice any particular differences between the two? If you said color, yes you are correct, but what else? Okay, I'll just tell you. The Spiny Lobster has no claws. Can you believe it? A lobster with no claws. Yes, in this bizarre part of the country people actually eat lobsters with no claws. I feel so sorry for them (I mean the lobsters but probably the people too). I almost want to get an Atlantic and Spiny lobster in a tank together (if they could negotiate a suitable salinity level and temperature) and see who the last lobster standing is. My money would be on the Atlantic. I think Spiny really has no idea how strong (and delicious) those claws are.

Is this why "lobster tail" is popular out here but you never see a full lobster on the menu? My guess is yes, but who knows... What's the point? There is no point, other than I'm craving a good old fashion, delicious, I'll break your finger with my claws, East Coast lobster. All I can find are these phonies out here - the, "we know we are wimpy so why not have two of us at double the cost" lobsters. It's really a tragedy. Fortunately though, those who aren't east coast transplants don't even know what they are missing, and I for one don't care to enlighten them...

I'm begging, or even DARING someone to post a claim on here that Pacific lobster is better... I can't imagine there would be any takers...