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Into the pot you go: Maine restaurant sedates lobsters with marijuana smoke
Lobsters in one Maine restaurant go out in a blaze of glory once they hit the pot. The owner of a lobster joint is sedating her crustaceans with marijuana smoke before cooking them – granting them, she says, a blissfully humane death.
Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound in Southwest Harbor, told the Portland Press Herald that she had been looking for a way to reduce the suffering of her signature menu item. She experimented with blowing marijuana smoke into a tank with one lobster, Roscoe (basically, she hot-boxed him). When Gill then removed Roscoe's claw bands and returned him to a tank with the other lobsters, she says, he was less aggressive. Gill has a medical marijuana license.
She plans to offer this cooking method as an option for customers who want their lobsters to be baked before they're boiled. But that doesn't mean customers will get stoned from their dinner.
"THC breaks down completely by 392 degrees, therefore we will use both steam as well as a heat process that will expose the meat to 420-degree extended temperature, in order to ensure there is no possibility of carry-over effect," Gill told the Press Herald. So where some see a humane death for the lobster, others see a waste of perfectly good weed.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:45PM (6 children)
She had a medical marijuana licence for herself, not a license to experiment on defenseless animals. Not a license to torture animals in a marketing stunt. DEA should put her ass into Guantanamo.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @09:51PM
Damn fuckers deserve each other.
(Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Saturday September 22 2018, @10:02PM (4 children)
Yeah! FUCK her for seasoning her POOR VICTIM INSECTOID with an ENTIRELY INEFFECTIVE haze of smoke, before slaughtering it for human consumption! DEA should shoot her and her dog for DARING to use the MARIHUANA!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 22 2018, @11:50PM (3 children)
She won't get shot... she's not black. #BLM #BringBackBarack
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday September 23 2018, @08:37AM (2 children)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ [statista.com]
Last year there were 987 killings by cops, 940 of those were men, 457 of those were white, 223 of those were black. So if you are going to claim she will avoid being shot by the cops it is most likely because she is a she.
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(Score: 2) by rondon on Monday September 24 2018, @02:00AM (1 child)
You used the figures for England and Wales you incompetent boob. Maine is not in Wales or England, you get one internet demerit for wasting everyone's fucking time.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday September 24 2018, @02:25AM
Fake News!
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