on Lobsters

Who decided that it would be a good idea to eat lobsters?

Don't get me wrong, lobsters are delicious. It just seems weird that someone accustomed to eating succulent cows and chickens would choose to consume a sea monster.

Look at them! They are creepy! Why would you equate red and pinchy with delicious?

It's likely that some poor schmoe was really really really hungry, and perhaps had been living on a diet of bugs and fish, making lobsters a logical progression. Word spread among the villagers, and thusly the first Red Lobster franchise was opened. I, however, would like to think it happened because of immature peer-pressure, something like this:

(two spear-wielding cavemen standing on a beach)
Ug: Oh, man, Gar, do you see that red monster-looking thing in the water?
(Gar stabs the lobster with his spear)
Gar: Dude! I killed it!
Ug: Gross, it's oozing! I dare you to eat it.
Gar: You're crazy, Ug, crazy.
Ug: Unless you're too scared.
Gar: There's no way I'm putting that thing in my mouth
Ug: That's not what your mom said
(fade to black as cavemen continue arguing)


Oooh, or maybe it was like a prehistoric Fear Factor, where a caveman bearing a striking resemblance to Joe Rogan (not much of a stretch, is it?) made people eat things for some reason. It probably didn't make any more sense then than it does now.