Rachel S. Gross

Consider the lobster roll, tender chunks of lobster bathed in butter or mayo sandwiched between two slices of a squishy bread roll.

Are you drooling yet?

This episode of Gastropod, the American lobster industry is one of the most valuable fisheries in the country, but it wasn't always the case.

Just in time for summer, we're cracking the lobster's many mysteries, including how it went from prison fare to fancy food.

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That is a truly dramatic shift from what we saw at the start of the year, and that's driven by inflation concerns.

A higher policy rate environment in the near term, that does increase the risk that you have a more notable downturn in economic growth from a 10-year perspective versus a 2-year perspective.

We thought we kind of have this really wonderful space that's closer than anything else we've seen to where the games are going to be.

And so we thought we can't really pass it up.

We've had thousands of inquiries, but no bites.

And then what that does, it's just an economics lesson, supply and demand.

You might get lucky, you might get that booking, or you might not.

If for some reason we got a bite, we would have to scramble.

But we would.

We would do it.

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I'd be like trying to make a birthday cake and there'd be somebody standing there with their dog to be seen.

Yeah, always Christmas, almost every single holiday we end up taking some calls.

We couldn't find a place, and so we had the vet clinic in the basement of our teeny tiny house.

All while raising two kids.