Trevor Corson
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first heard Jun 2026
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Basically, any lobster that was able to hide and not get eaten by a cod had to stay in hiding and avoid getting eaten until it was big enough that a cod wouldn't bother with it.
I mean really big.
So actually, what European settlers found when they arrived in the New England area was when they saw a lobster, they tended to be really big lobster.
So they were pretty stunned at how big these things were.
Lobsters can grow as large as about forty-five pounds.
That's the largest lobster on record.
Rick compared it to his kid.
Just to give you a little context, so my son was forty-five pounds when he was five years old.
So uh you know, about the weight of a five year old.
The funny thing was the European settlers who arrived in North America did recognize the American lobster
Immediately it was almost identical to a very closely related species that you find off the coast of Europe and England and that whole area.
The thing is
that those European lobsters are are nowhere near as abundant for all the reasons we've talked about as the American lobster.
It was never really worth catching European lobsters for food because they were so scarce.
And so when the Europeans arrived here and saw the same thing over here, they're like, oh yeah, that underwater bug that nobody eats.
We think of lobsters today as kind of a luxury meal, but stop and think about it for a second.
It's just a huge bug.
Like it's not the first thing you necessarily would choose to eat, you know, as far as attractive cuisine goes.
So we have uh a historical record that already after the pilgrims had been settled, just for a little bit, I maybe maybe after their first winter, they were already feeling embarrassed.
Embarrassed if lobster was all they had available to serve to someone.
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