Too Green, Too Late

Health Canada has issued a warning on lobster tomalley. An adult should not eat more than the tomalley of two lobsters a day and a child one. Most people I know, particularly white Canadians, do not usually eat the tomalley. And for those who eat tomalley, they practically have to fight for every bit of it. I do not know what it is like in Nova Scotia, but out here, a lobster per person is an extraordinary luxury. I can only dream of a situation where I can have more than two lobsters at one meal. To be honest, I am not sure if I want to eat more than two lobsters at one time. Considering the price of the thing, if you are going to eat more than two lobsters, maybe you should risk a little bit your life on it. This warning is a couple hundred years too late. Once upon a time, a couple hundred years ago, lobsters were so abundant in the East Coast that it was specified in some labour contract that employers could not feed their workers lobsters more than four days a week. Too bad there were no warnings back then, I might have saved a couple of strikes, perhaps. It is, unfortunately a couple hundreds of years too late.