Name: Lobster Dinner: From Bottom-Dweller to Status Symbol
Uploaded: 2019-09-28T14:04:04.000Z
Duration: 1 min 24 s
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but this beloved summertime favorite was once thought of

It is said that in the early 16th century

that the oceans overfloweth with lobster.

Imagine a shore with a lobster wall two feet tall.

As one would expect, the settlers ate them up

until, like anything eaten three times a day,

eventually deeming them the cockroaches of the sea.

After that, lobsters were used as fertilizer,

that there was even a law enacted to protect said inmates

from cruel and unusual lobster punishment.

So, then how did lobster become the succulent delicacy

Canned food became a thing, as did the railroad.

Lobsters were canned and shipped to Middle America.

At the same time, Middle Americans started traveling

By the late 1880s, prices began to surge.

And by World War II, lobsters become the pricey speciality

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Lobster Dinner: From Bottom-Dweller to Status Symbol

literally

ultimately

eventually

surge