First Truffles, Now Lobster Prices Collapse

[randomness]

From http://www.clusterstock.com/2008/11/first-truffles-now-lobster-prices-collapse:

First we saw the price of white truffles collapse by some 90%, and now we learn that lobster prices are falling too. News 5 Boston checked in on the local industry and found that prices have fallen from $4.50-$5.00 pound last year, to a low of $2.80 per pound. Diners are ordering lobster less, the processing facilities are thus buying less from the lobstermen, and voila, price collapse. Said the head of the Mass. Lobstermen's Association: "This is the time to buy them. A 1 pound lobster off the back of a vessel is cheaper than an ice cream cone."

Mmmm...lobster. :)

Comments

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Now I have visions of a lobster cone - an unsweetened waffle cone packed with lobster roll filling or, for me, plain buttered lobster flecked with fresh parsley.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. Then again, we're both from the buttered lobster roll side of the divide.

[redbird]

I'll eat that.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I would SOOOO eat that!

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

They are $2.50 wholesale....

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

This pretty much makes a lobster pig-out a civic duty, huh?

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

They can start feeding them to inmates again!

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I hate you right now for your proximity to New England.

[nathanjw]

Eh. If I want to eat a lot of butter I can do it without boiling a sea-cockroach first.