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Originally Posted by Barefoot

I grew up on shellfish because it was much cheaper than meat in the Maritimes (eastern coast of Canada).
I thought everyone ate oysters and clams and lobsters all the time.

In the olden days, farmers used lobsters as garden fertilizer.
Lobsters were know to be bottom feeders and people thought they weren't fit to eat.

For Native Americans near the Chesapeake Bay (where I grew up) oysters and crabs were staple foods. They were cheap as dirt even in the 1950s and we ate them constantly. Even had stewed oysters for breakfast. No lobsters though. I never ate a lobster until I was an adult.
I love lobster but I still think of them as large insects that live in the water.