This summer, whether you've been schmoozing in a Cannes seafood eaterie, or sweltering on Blackpool beach amongst the sunburnt locals, lobsters may well have been on your mind. It's often a strain even for the most carnivorous amongst us to select a live lobster to be boiled alive for our delectation - it certainly weighs more heavily on the conscience than a munch on a Ginsters pasty. Today's fact may or may not make this gruesome task more palatable for you:
Lobsters can live to 100 years old - but their average lifespan is only 15 years.
On the one hand, you may feel that a century is a solid innings, and that at least Mr. Lobster isn't heading for a bisquey demise while still in their prime. On the other, if said crustacean has battled to over 6 times the average lifespan (imagine if some humans lived to be 500 - the Post Office queues don't bear thinking about) it seems churlish to end their mighty struggle because the salmon's off. Pity the poor lobster - contemplating their own mortality at 14 (possibly whilst listening to My Chemical Romance on miniature iPods), battling gamely on for another 85 years, only to be par-boiled and seasoned into an undignified grave. Our underwater friends truly are tragic figures - tragically delicious, that is.
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