Post by rockzilla » August 19th, 2008, 12:06 am
http://www.slate.com/id/2196990/

Recent Slate article. Lobster going for $5.50 a pound (okay, in Maine, but still)

Maybe sheds some light on todays thread-that-will-be-unnamed? =)

Quote:

"Based on my intensive investigations, it seems that prices for both the commodity (lobsters sold on the docks) and the finished product (steamed lobsters sold at dockside restaurants) are lower than they've been in past years. In a seafood store in downtown Portland, a pound of lobster ($5.49) went for pretty close to what I had paid for a gallon of gas in Connecticut the day before ($4.30). A few years ago, the pound-of-lobster-to-gallon-of-gas ratio would have more like 4-to-1. Our hosts welcomed us with two-pound lobsters that cost less than a pound of steak."


=)

RZ