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I once had a dream about a “lobster hotdog.” A lobster tail in a buttered hotdog bun. I went to a sports bar that happened to serve lobster tail and had hot dog buns. The waitress willing let me order this culinary sin. On an occasion, I still wake up in a cold sweat with the faint memory of processed bread and shellfish…
I could literally go next door and get one right now.
Friend, I want a lobdog
They have food trucks in Iceland that serve lobster tail baguettes. They’re delicious.
I mean that’s pretty close to what they call a lobster roll in most places.
Wait, you mean a Connecticut-style lobster roll? Which is amazing? Are you messin’ with me? Culinary sin? You mean culinary heaven?
I tried a lobster roll for the first time last year and I’m mostly disappointed. Every single place sold them for around 40 to 50 USD. It was just buttered lobster which is good but for the amount I got, it was definitely not worth, and honestly I’d rather have bread on the side than as a roll
lobster rolls are good only if you think “man these would be awesome if it werent $60 for a meal”
I’ve never had lobster roll - or indeed lobster - but from the name I imagined it to be lobster rolled up in something like a pig in a blanket (though I’ve heard that varies from place to place as well; my variant is just a hot dog rolled up in a croissant).
I was pretty disappointed the first time someone around me ordered one and it was just lobster in a roll … Though I admit it makes sense.
A hot dog in a croissant? That’s wild, I didn’t realise pigs in blankets were different around the world (presumably you’re not in the UK?). In England, pigs in blankets are little sausages wrapped in bacon!
No, I’m not in the UK.
What you describe is delicious, too, but I’m not aware of a colloquialism that describes it.
What I’m accustomed to by that name is a less fancy looking version of this:
Oh wow, that’s totally not what I was picturing actually! What are the seeds? Is the croissant sweet?
I don’t put seeds on mine, but they seem like sesame seeds. What were you picturing?
The rolls are:
https://www.pillsbury.com/products/crescents/originalI wouldn’t call them sweet, but from what I understand the UK and US have very different definitions of that taste, so you might.
edit: That might actually just be salt. Pretty sure it’s sesame though.
we used to do pigs wrapped in bacon in a blanket. pretty freaking good but you have to precook the bacon.
Precook? The bacon and sausages just need to be thin enough, ie. pancetta sliced and chipolata, respectively. Possibly better roasted so they don’t need to be turned (they may unravel).
Traditionally, short chipolatas are used, sometimes referred to as cocktail sausages, although this can also refer to cold, precooked sausages of the same size.
Yeah, I’ve tried to do that on my grill without precooking. Never got it to work.
The popularity of lobster rolls mostly comes from a time, not so long ago, when eating lobster and shrimp was on about the same level as eating crickets. People in the Northeast would catch them for export. Poor kids brought lobster rolls to school, rich kids brought baloney sandwiches or Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Eventually, people decided lobster was a “luxury” food so now you get these tiny little lobster rolls for absurb prices. Hard to understand how they’d attract any new fans today.
We did make improvements since then, like dousing in butter and cooking only to a delicate texture instead of pencil erasers. If you had the old fashioned style you’d be grossed out too.
I might be biased but Asian style of lobster is amazing. My favorite is salted egg yolk lobster (I think also literally translated as golden sand or smth)
Presumably the supply of lobster is now much lower than the demand.
I’ve had a few but would never pay that much. Especially after having one from McDonald’s in Maine awhile ago for like $10 that tasted exactly the same. I check every time I’m up there and it’s never been available again
40-50 smackers is an unreasonable price for lobster roll. I also wouldn’t be impressed for that price.
In all fairness. I was in Boston (and in the seaport area) when I first tried it, so I’m sure it could’ve been cheaper. But this definitely isn’t a food that gets better the more you pay for it.
The Iowa State Fair is doing them for $100, includes gold leaf for some reason, add caviar and Dom and it’s $800.
Just to point out Iowa wasn’t nearly this stupid when I grew up there in the 80s, they were actually fairly progressive and tech-forward for a while, wish a dash of country polite.
I wouldn’t even eat lobster in Iowa, let alone pay that much for it. Where do people think the lobster is coming from?
I’ve had a good one before. They’re rare AF. Most places just seem to throw some overcooked butter-drenched lobster claw meat on a Pepperidge Farm top split and call it a day. You need to go somewhere with an actual chef to get one properly executed. (or maybe an ancient Northeastern grandmother)
Lobster salad, no huge chunks, relatively dry, properly salted, moderately spiced. A Top-split roll that’s soft on the outside and crunchy butter-fried on the inside.
Even at their best, you won’t cry for it when it’s gone. It’ll just be a “that was good” and a nice solemn happiness that you ate it.
When my wife and son took a trip up yhr Maine coast they had these at every chance available. And the honor system roadside pie stands.
From the article in [35]
As Arseny explained: “I think if they want to know how King’s Hand tastes, they should bake it themselves and tell me. Somebody actually did that, so I have one testimonial; they baked it and they said it’s shit.”
Shitpostception
You can save a lot of time and effort by just reading the description. If you still decide to make it, you’re on your own.
Greek salad is like polar opposite to cookie and m&m. I can’t even imagine how bad of a juxtapositioning it requires to even take it seriously as something to eat
but more importantly how did this survive as a Wikipedia entry!?
Fill it with something more appropriate and I think it’d be a neat Halloween party treat. Visually it turned out cursed in the best way.
Raspberry preserves and pretzel rods.
Whipped cream or chocolate frosting.
Fill it with circus peanut material.
December 6, 2020. Later that day, she shared her recipe. As of December 15, 2020, the tweet had garnered over 166,000 likes and was featured in a diverse array of media and print publications, including Fox News,[44] TODAY,[45] and BuzzFeed News.
So it went viral for a week, this entry was added, and here we are talking about it.
It looks hand
Man door hand look car door
real “dream omlette” vibes
“It came to me in a dream” is a cursed reason to make something IRL.
Don’t let dreams be dreams!!!
An example of two things I love eating. On their own.
They don’t need to be married.
Sure, have a pizza before bedtime. Why not?
It sounds good up until “stuffed with Greek salad.”
Might be one of the few recipes where changing a crucial step would lead to a better outcome.
Agreed. Fill it with frosting or whipped cream or something, not Greek salad… wtf.
I immediately wondered if some other country called something else “Greek salad”… I tried to click the link in the photo to see if it was another name for like Ambrosia Salad or something desserty.
Nope… Just a delicious, oily, salty Greek salad like I know and love from the local Coney.
Up to that point, I was looking at the description in disbelief, but burst out laughing when I read “greek salad”. The hand cookie bit was just realistic enough to get it in the uncanny valley (the photo looked like an AI cookie hand, too…
Actually, it might still be, I don’t know if that photo was from the lady that made them or added for the memenm, it says she produced photos in the meme… Really wish voyager’s comment UI showed more than just the one comment I’m replying to like RIF), but the greek salad put it well into absurd territory. Just imagining people biting into their over the top cookie thing and then making a wtf face at the combination of flavours in their mouth, though it would be even better if the initial surprise and disgust gets replaced by a confused look and then a “well played, not bad” because it works.Lol I literally just had a greek salad earlier today but didn’t even think to check how it tastes with chocolate chip cookie, so who knows, maybe it is good.
I’m high and I still wouldn’t eat that.
That’s dessert after having Feetloaf for dinner.
The onion nails really sell it.
Oh my god this is a food item that you can get in the game Small Saga (which I highly recommend to all you leftists/queers/others). I assumed it was real and some sort of well-known weird food but actually it’s real and bad on purpose? What a rollercoaster.
Thanks for mentioning it was a data analyst, I would be confused otherwise.
If that’s the kind of data her brain wants to analyze I’m all for it
Things got real weird during quarantine.
Weird and wonderful
That’s a bit creepy 🤣
Is 28 around the usual age schizophrenia hits?
Anywhere between like 15 and 45, I think. I dunno because i didn’t look it up and im not a brain doctor guy.
