A Newfoundlander is driving down a back road in St. Johns. A sign in front of a restaurant reads:
HAPPY HOUR SPECIAL
Lobster Tail and Beer
‘Lord tunderin’ jaysus’ he says to himself, ‘me 3 favourite tings!’
If you got the Tail you don’t need the lobster or beer!
Ralph
I tot dis wad a fambly sight!
Don’t worry guys.
Only a very few of the OS members here would know what tail referred to.
Got to admire that Newfoundlander…that my 3 favorite things too…
High on my list of favorites, but out west, all three are not usually available from the same establishment.
I’m now considering a visit to Newfoundland.
Happy RRing,
Jerry
Dear All,
Shhhhh…Don’t let the moderator see those jokes…
‘Lobster Tail’ reminds me of the scene in “Mystic Pizza” where a young Julia Roberts looks in her refrigerator and sees nothing but lobster tails, and shows disgust. In the movie she was part of a lobster fishing family, and was sick of lobsters by then.
Seems in that movie she had more meat on her bones than later ones.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
I once read that lobster was originally considered fit only for people at the lowest end of the financial spectrum. Wealthy families in the Northeast used it to feed their servants, who would try to get contracts limiting how often they would have to eat it.
Ray Dunakin said:My wife works at an Orthodox Jewish establishment and, as we are not Jewish, she has to be particularly careful about what she brings for lunch lest she give offense. The Orthodox Jews are ultra-particular about what they can and cannot eat. All offal-consuming creatures, like lobsters and crabs, are off the menu.
I once read that lobster was originally considered fit only for people at the lowest end of the financial spectrum. Wealthy families in the Northeast used it to feed their servants, who would try to get contracts limiting how often they would have to eat it.
A couple of years back, a new employee caught a couple of crays and stashed them in the fridge at work when nobody else was in the lunch room, thinking he’d cook them up as a surprise morning tea next day. It was a surprise, alright, but not what he expected. Everything - not just the fridge, but all the surrounds - had to be cleaned in a particular way, supervised by a rabbi.
The only good thing was that the new employee was not fired - indeed, to the best of my knowledge he still works there.
How’s that for a tail?!!