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a knight in armor that screams in butter and could outlive your great-grandchildren.
means A large marine crustacean with a hard shell, two big front claws, and a long abdomen, prized as seafood.
from From Old English 'loppestre,' itself a tangle of Latin 'locusta' (meaning both 'locust' and 'lobster' — the Romans saw the armored bug of the sea) crossed with the native English 'loppe,' meaning spider. So the name fuses two crawling things into one: part insect, part arachnid, all armor.
- near immortal
- barely ages; some may pass 100 years old
- blue blood
- copper-based blood runs blue, not red
- former peasant food
- once fed to prisoners and servants
- teeth in stomach
- chews food with a stomach grinding mill
- left or right
- each has a dominant crusher claw
maine lobster industry — world's largest lobster fishery, landing ~90 million pounds annually from the atlantic coast
homarus americanus — the american lobster species, native to north atlantic and dominant commercial species in maine and canada
old salty the lobster — estimated 140+ years old when caught off maine coast in 2017, heaviest lobster ever recorded at 27 pounds
lundy's famous lobster rolls — iconic brooklyn seafood stand opened 1947, serving connecticut-style lobster rolls with warm butter