Eating A Lobster
Throughout Nova Scotia and PEI, lobsters are a favourite dish and they appear, in various guises, on many restaurant menus. For whole lobster, you pay by weight with the smaller lobsters averaging 450g and costing about $20-25. Also, look out for all-you-can-eat lobster suppers, rural community events held in village halls and the like, though these are now something of a rarity. Given that the Maritimers are so familiar with eating lobster, it's particularly embarrassing if you don't know how. There are eight main steps: 1. Twist off the claws. 2. Crack each claw with the nutcracker you receive with the lobster. 3. Separate the tailpiece from the body by arching the back until it breaks. 4. Bend back and break off the flippers from the tailpiece. 5. Insert a fork where the flippers broke off and push. 6. Unhinge the back from the body - the meat in the back, the tomalley, is considered by many to be the choicest part of a lobster. 7. Open the remaining part of the body by cracking apart sideways. 8. Suck out the meat from the small claws
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