Yours truly, Trevor Corson, looking for lobster stuff. Got any? E-mail me
This was where I posted my irregular ramblings, reports, and pictures as the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS from 2004 through 2006. This page is no longer active, and serves simply as an archive. To read new entries starting in 2007, please visit my new Lobster Blog.
To see scenes from Little Cranberry Island, where THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS takes place, and to read an interview with me, click here. To see photos of some of the people featured in the book, click here, and view the blog entries below. To see more pictures of weird lobster stuff, click here.
"There is nothing grosser than biting into a frozen chunk of lobster in your ice cream."
The Washington Post ran an article the other day about the Udder Delight Ice Cream House in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. They serve bacon ice cream.
If the creator of Ben & Bill's lobster ice cream sculpture had read THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS, he or she would have known that a lobster's teeth are not in its mouth; they're inside its stomach. (photo: Sarah Corson)
Big deal. You think that's disgusting?
Try lobster ice cream.
Ben & Bill's Chocolate Emporium is located in Bar Harbor, Maine, a tourist mecca near Little Cranberry Island, where THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS takes place. It being lobster country, Ben & Bill's serves -- yes -- lobster ice cream.
A freelance writer named Kim Knox Beckius has written an essay about Ben & Bill's lobster ice cream. You should read it if you're seriously considering sampling this unique Maine delicacy. But you should also know that Kim is not only a self-described "proud New Englander" -- which might color her opinion -- but also someone who admits to having a "rather intense fondness for lobster."
That's an understatement. Consider Kim's online wedding photo album, where you can see that her ringbearer was a lobster and her flowers were a lobster bouquet. Oh, and after the ceremony, she was photographed in her wedding dress with a giant inflatable lobster.
And I thought I was obsessed with lobsters. It's too bad that Kim has married someone else, because we are clearly soulmates. Lucky man.
In her essay on lobster ice cream, Kim concludes that the taste is:
"How shall I say this delicately . . . disconcerting. Bruce, who shared a cup of Ben & Bill's signature lobster flavor with me, wasn't quite as diplomatic in his reaction. I believe his candid analysis was, 'There is nothing grosser than biting into a frozen chunk of lobster in your ice cream!'"
But Kim continues:
"I know; lobster ice cream still sounds intriguing to you."
Lobster ice cream is simply, well, sorta delicious. Ok, well, it's good, and kinda different, but not gross by any stretch. I ordered some while up in Bar Harbor last month and my wife tried it, not knowing what it was. She stated, "That's good, what it is?" Of course, once I informed her what it was, she told me it was disgusting. What could be better than bits of lobster meat with frozen butter cream?? Well, honestly, a lot of things, but that's beside the point. Lobster Lovers unite, and give way to a new generation of ice cream!
