Pennybright: Has anyone else heard of leaving an "example lobster" when cooking lobsters? Pennybright: Sapwood claims that plenty of people do it and he learned it from Oxeye but it’s a ridiculous and horrifying process.
Pennybright: For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s when you buy lobsters to cook by boiling them and you leave only one alive. They would always set the lobster down in front of all the cooked lobsters and make it watch while they ate all the other lobsters. After that, they put the lobster in a cooler and drive it to the beach and send it back out into the ocean. The "joke" is that the lobster is supposed to tell the other lobsters of the horrors it saw. Has anyone else heard of this or was I born into a family of sociopaths? [later] Pennybright: I have concluded from people’s reactions that this is not standard procedure by any means and we’re all a little bit insane.
