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Our cooking techniques have improved a lot. I read somewhere that when lobster was fed to prisoners it wasn't boiled live and served like we do today, it was old and salted. I would bet that today's fresh-cooked lobster with drawn butter tastes a lot better than what the prisoners were eating. It's not only expensive, it's delicious.

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>I would bet that today's fresh-cooked lobster with drawn butter tastes a lot better than what the prisoners were eating.

There is still bad lobster in existence today. I grew up in Maine and at once point worked in the lobster-fishing industry. Later on, to my dismay, the Army used to feed us lobster that had been boiled until it was water flavored meat. Such a waste.

I was visiting an eco-resort in the early 90s in panama in the san blas islands, and the locals were told the americans would only eat lobster (caught there fresh) if it was boiled, vs their own grilling/fire cooking it. So these natives proceeded to boil the life out of the poor lobsters and served the most rubbery tasteless lobster I've ever had. All because that's what they thought we liked.

I work with a guy that used to be a submariner and he talks about how the best thing about being in a submarine was the food, including lobster. Maybe being in submarine they couldn't spend too long cooking it? As someone who just tried lobster for the first time this weekend I don't think anything can make it taste good.

I think the difference might be that the guy on the submarine cares whether or not its cooked properly, because he's going to be eating it too. The Army uses contractors for the most part these days.

It was also ground up, shells and all. They didn't care.

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