New England boy

I can tell you one thing Reuel and I didn't know how to do at the ripe old age of three...how to eat a lobster.  Owen got his first lobster-picking lesson today and he thought it was quite fun.  At 4.99 a pound (and that's not the lowest the price has been), it hardly deserves the status of a treat at the moment.  I was struggling with exactly how to answer all his questions about the lobster being dead, and where the lobster's family lived (nothing like a kid's questions to make you reconsider the question of vegetarianism).  I thought maybe Owen was feeling sad about the lobster, and then he wielded the meat pick and stabbed it through the shell repeatedly without a moment's hesitation.  I guess I was the only one feeling tender toward the fellow.  At one point, Owen was scared of the lobster's face, and I held it up so we could have a close look at it and see that it wasn't scary.  Oh my gosh, it is scary!!  It's like some horrible creature from The Matrix, but organic rather than mechanical, which makes it that much worse!  Totally horror movie-worthy.  I guess I've tried not to look too closely when eating lobster in the past.  We started pulling the meat out from the tail:

Owen:  Mommy, why doesn't the lobster have blood?
Me:  Well, I'm not sure if lobsters have red blood like people do.  But he's cooked and there's no blood right now, I guess.
Owen:  [seeing the white meat]  Oh, lobsters have chicken inside of them!  I'm going to get you out all that chicken, Mommy.  I didn't know lobsters were made out of chicken!

At the dinner table...
Reuel:  Owen, do YOU want to try a bite of lobster meat?
Owen:  No.  I don't like it.
Reuel:  Have you tried it?  Green eggs and ham!
Me:  You could just lick a piece first...
Owen:  [Licking gingerly]  I *DO* like it!   Chomp, chomp.
Me:  It's kind of sweet.
Owen:  It's just like dessert!  [Grabs handful of meat from bowl and runs over to me]  Here mommy, try some!

 

As a final note, Asher was pretty willing to chomp down some cauliflower at supper tonight.  When you dip it in flour, then egg, then panko crumbs, then deep fry it, it goes down pretty easy ;)

BOO!