Lobster wasn’t always such a delicacy. In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered cruel and unusual punishment. Lobsters were referred to as the “cockroaches of the sea”.

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1. If they aren’t eaten by us, lobsters can live 45 – 50 years.
2. The older they get the more fertile they become.
3. Lobsters only became popular when New Yorkers and Bostonians developed a taste for it in the mid 1800s.