My boyfriend has just brought home a lobster to eat

[heatherd1409]

but i don't want to kill it. He says they give it something that makes them stay alive but not feel any pain before you kill it but I want to know if there's any way I can keep it alive and maybe put him back in the sea or something. Please help asap!! x

[Barmaid]

Sloopy, I am beginning to realise how it feels.....

[mccfluff]

lol sloopy

[humbersloop]

((BM)) ;)

Is it something about sundays?

[Smowball]

Lol, dont think you could take it back to the sea now anyway, you would have a very confused lobster!

[humbersloop]

I actually typed the phrase disrespectful to the lobster....

...<<thudd>>

[wildwood]

Hope you've put it back in the sea by now. Funny how some animal lovers advocate boiling a live animal. Freezing it to numb it is not a pleasant way to go either, it will take a lot of suffering before it's brain shuts down.

If you must eat lobsters/crayfish, a swift split of the head with a good kitchen knife is the only kind way.

[DTCwordfan]

I wrote a parody on this thread, nothing insulting at all, just an amusing parody and some Mod has the audacity to remove it.....For the record, I have written to the Ed requesting why and I trust that some coaching to the person who pressed the button will be forthcoming. It was so unnecessary. The ones that did see it (briefly) enjoyed it......

[joggerjayne]

But they are SO tasty ...

[DTCwordfan]

My way is back of the "head" with the knife, plunge in and pull back to split. (The Belgian way).

[mrs.chappie]

I think I know how Heather feels. I love lobster but couldn't eat one if it'd been brought home alive. Hypocritical, I know.

[joggerjayne]

Do you live
In a flat, or a tall house?

If you drop it out of the window, it will die of shock on the way down. Job done.

Plus, if it lands on a hard surface, it cracks the shell for you.

#mustvisitriddleandfinns

[snags]

The most humane way to dispatch a crab is to thrust a skewer (or a screwdriver if you don't have a skewer) through the carapace, between it's eyes, then violently waggle it left and right, so mashing it's brains. Might work for a Lobster...

[lady-janine]

most fishmongers kill the lobster for you unless requested otherwise. t

ake it to boyfriend to deal with but if you have to travel far mind the owls. there are a lot of them about at the moment.

[DTCwordfan]

that's exactly what my technique does - the lobster brain is smaller than half a finger nail and works totally on autonomous reactions. There is no cerebellum.

[snags]

Treading on it violently and crushing it with heavy work boots will also work although picking out the bits of shell from your Thermidore is a real pain...

[DTCwordfan]

and she professes to be Cornish, Lady J. Any self-respecting Cornish gal knows how to handle a lobbie.

[joggerjayne]

Creative ways to dispatch this lobster ...

Put it in a lacrosse stick and whang it at a wall.

#isupposeitmightgetstuckinthenet

[snags]

Give the lobster access to something sharp and pointy and make it read one of DT's poems... it'll commit Lobster-kiri itself in no time thus saving you the effort ;-p

[lady-janine]

oh snags. unkind.

[DTCwordfan]

lol - snags, that means one for you in the near future - but not tonight as the sack calls.