Lobster: From Rags to Riches

               Here the story of a boy named Billy.

Billy

              Billy lives in the year 1801, and tonight he's taking a gal named Mindy out for a fancy dinner!

Mindy

              Billy decides to take Mindy to his favorite sea-side restaurant. Once there, Billy spends all the money he's earned inhaling asbestos as a carpenters assistant on a fresh, luscious, lobster. Mindy slaps Billy, and walks away. Never to be seen again.

              What did Billy do wrong?

              He ordered lobster! Duh! 

              

              You see, lobster used to be considered a horrendous thing to eat. It was next to grasshopper on the stuff you want to enter your mouth list. It's like half spider, half insect, all disgustingness. British POWs during the Revolutionary war complained because they were being fed too much lobster. 

Who would pay to eat this?

               So what changed? 

               Well, with the invention of railroads, rich people in the middle of the country (who didn't know what lobsters were) were tricked into buying massive amounts of them. These rich people promptly found that lobster is very good at soaking up lots of butter. 

                And thus began the dawn of the $800 lobster dish.