Ceci N’Est Pas Un Homard

6 Responses to Ceci N’Est Pas Un Homard

1. Benoit says:

   23 April 2011 at 19:58

   poor arthropod feeling blue….

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2. Anne Weil says:

   23 April 2011 at 20:11

   I guess you’re out of the range of _Homarus americanus_ over there, but it sure looks like some kind of lobster to me. If it were pipe-colored it would look even more like a lobster, of course.
   You will appreciate this, Henry — the first newspaper article I ever wrote that made the front page was about a blue lobster.

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   • Anne Weil says:

     23 April 2011 at 20:18

     Ha! I just looked it up and your _H. gammarus_ are *all* blue! It’s a good day when a Maineiac girl learns something new about lobsters. (Blue is very rare in _H. americanus_.)

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3. cromercrox says:

   24 April 2011 at 08:02

   Yup, it is indeed Homarus gammarus, the common lobster. Not as common in Cromer, though, as the ubiquitus Carcinus pagurus, the edible crab, for which Cromer is famous.

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4. ricardipus says:

   26 April 2011 at 17:49

   The way this is going, you won’t have to visit the grocery store for weeks.

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   • cromercrox says:

     26 April 2011 at 20:08

     There’s an idea gaining increasing currency in anthropological circles – that as soon as Hom Sap evolved, he headed for the beach. Protein is much easier to come by on the beach than on the savannah. It requires much less chasing, and a good deal less preparation once you’ve caught it. And seafood is full of all those lovely omega fatty acids that we celebrity nutritionists love to bang on about, all good food for the brain and so on and so forth.

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