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03-03-2005, 12:16 PM
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See....I knew someone shoulda eaten him...
Now his yummy lobster meat is going to go to waste.
Bubba the lobster dies after being moved to zoo
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- He dodged lobster pots for decades, endured a trip from the coast of Massachusetts to Pittsburgh and survived about a week in a fish market. But a trip to the zoo proved to be too much for a 22-pound lobster named Bubba.
The leviathan of a lobster died Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market, said zoo spokeswoman Rachel Capp and Bob Wholey, owner of the fish market.
"They're very finicky. It could have been a change in the water. You have no idea," said Wholey.
Bubba died in a quarantine area of the zoo's aquarium, where he was being checked out to see if he was healthy enough to make a trip to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, Capp said.
Bubba will be examined to try to figure out why he died, although Capp and Wholey guessed it may have been the stress of being moved.
Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size -- about five to seven years to grow to a pound -- some estimated Bubba was about 100 years old. But marine biologists said 30 to 50 years was more likely.
Other large lobsters didn't fare well after they were caught, too.
In 1985, a 25-pound lobster that the New England Aquarium planned to give to a Tokyo museum died when the water temperature rose and the salt dropped in its aquarium. In 1990, a 17-1/2-pound lobster named Mimi died just days after being flown to a restaurant in Detroit. Last year, a 14-pound lobster named Hercules that was rescued by a Washington state middle school class died before it could be released off the coast of Maine.
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03-03-2005, 12:28 PM
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You would not BELIEVE the amount of news coverage this has gotten here.
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03-03-2005, 12:40 PM
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awww that's so sad. it sounds like he had an interesting life though
moving stresses out marine life like crazy... i think it was either that or old age.
... although i'm not sure what the life expectancy for a lobster is, so i could be way off.
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03-03-2005, 12:47 PM
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One can only imagine how much butter would have been needed for that lobster!
Seriously, we're really messing with the balance of nature, and this is such a perfect - but sad - example.
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03-03-2005, 01:02 PM
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That's him next to a regular sized lobster.
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03-03-2005, 01:02 PM
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03-03-2005, 04:01 PM
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That's him next to a regular sized lobster.
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Good Lord!! That's a big lobster..........
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03-03-2005, 04:38 PM
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You would not BELIEVE the amount of news coverage this has gotten here.
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Wholey's is LOVING the publicity, especially during LENT (Pittsburgh has a lot of Friday no-meat eaters for those of you not from the area).
Seriously must be a slow news week if this is one of the top stories on cnn.com
Wholeys shoulda sold it to PETA- people for eating tasty animals.
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03-03-2005, 05:11 PM
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This thing looks so disgusting. How can you guys want to eat it? It looks like an underwater roach.
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03-03-2005, 05:49 PM
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This thing looks so disgusting. How can you guys want to eat it? It looks like an underwater roach.
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Think about all that delicious meat in his ONE CLAW though! That whole claw is bigger than that entire lobster.
BTW, this thread has inspired me to get a lobster for dinner tonight
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03-03-2005, 06:53 PM
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BTW, this thread has inspired me to get a lobster for dinner tonight
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My boss and I were talking about the same thing this morning!
Tasty tasty lobstah...
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03-03-2005, 07:59 PM
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I wounder what the quality of the meat would be in one that big? Better, worse or the same?
Rudeth, shellfish is good, that whole religion aside, lol.
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03-03-2005, 08:21 PM
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That big som bich probably had his meat that was tuffer than a Buffalos BUTT!
If you do not eat shell fish, do you eat Kafillter fish?
May Big Bubba be cloned and feed Us Humains for years to come!
Hell, the only ones to get at a decenct price are 2 oz. 2 of those and a 1 Lb. of shrimp is dinner!
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03-03-2005, 08:30 PM
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I wounder what the quality of the meat would be in one that big? Better, worse or the same?
Rudeth, shellfish is good, that whole religion aside, lol.
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hah
When I was younger I had no idea what surf and turf meant at a steak restaurant so the waitress brings out the raw meat to choose and I just about threw up when I saw the greenish lobster meat.
Plus don't you eat it alive or something like that?
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03-04-2005, 10:23 AM
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Quote:
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I wounder what the quality of the meat would be in one that big? Better, worse or the same?
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I have a feeling it would be worse. It's probably pretty tough and stringy since it's so big.
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Plus don't you eat it alive or something like that?
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No, you put them in the pot when they're alive, and they die while you're cooking them.
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