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"lobster"
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Prabhupāda: ...animals, goes like this?
Karandhara & Svarūpa Dāmodara: Crabs?
Karandhara: Crabs and lobsters, yeah.
Brahmānanda: Birds. (pause)
Prabhupāda: They have got suitable beak, suitable beak to capture. Yes. (pause) What is this big bird?
Brahmānanda: A seagull.
Prabhupāda: They also eat fish?
Brahmānanda: Fish and garbage, everything.
Prabhupāda: Oh. (pause)
Prabhupāda: They say it is very good eatables.
Paramahaṁsa: Yes, (Laughing) they say like that.
Prabhupāda: And crabs?
Paramahaṁsa: Clams.
Prabhupāda: Oh no? What is called?
Paramahaṁsa: Crabs and clams and lobsters...
Prabhupāda: Yes. Lobster is very popular.
Paramahaṁsa: Oh, yes, that is a big delicacy. One lobster, if you buy it in the restaurant, they sell it for at least five dollars.
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?
Paramahaṁsa: Usually closer to ten dollars, for one lobster. Very costly. (break)
Prabhupāda: ...import lobster from India. I have seen it. Lobster from Cochin.
Bali-mardana: South India.
Prabhupāda: Ah, South India. Lobster and this, what is called? Labhanga...? Cloves. And these cashew. Cashew is produced in India. (break) ...big, big European companies for doing this business in Cochin.
Bali-mardana: They were set up by the British?
Prabhupāda: Yes, and Greeks. (break) Americans don't care for this business. They want machine.
Prabhupāda: This is rascaldom. They are eating so many dead animals.
Hari-śauri: But they say if they kill it in a healthy condition then the meat they eat is good.
Prabhupāda: No, no, just like lobsters, they are very fond of lobster. Lobster is never bought living. It is dead and rotten, decomposed, and they eat. They cannot say that by killing we get fresh. You are eating so many rotten things, decomposed. Actually, I have seen. It has become like puss, and still they are eating.
Prabhupāda: Disgusting?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. If they had to do it themselves they would consider it abominable.
Prabhupāda: No, some of them can do it, make business. As there are butchers, as they are selling meat, they can take it, they'll make more profit. From slaughterhouse, if they purchase, they have to pay, but here they get free. The hotel man, they can get free. The tannary expert, he'll get this skin free. I have seen they are eating the lobster, it is so decomposed it has become exactly like puss and they are eating. That argument is not valid.
Prabhupāda: They are eating so many rotten things.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Yes. And they are burning it, cooking it.
Prabhupāda: Lobster, it is simply pus. They eat. I've seen it. From whiteness it has become yellow. Puslike. They eat it, what is called that soup? Lobster soup?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Clam chowder? So many things.
Prabhupāda: But they like very much that lobster soup. In the plane, one Englishman was doing "What is this? I asked after lobster soup."
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: In England? Oysters?
Prabhupāda: No, lobsters.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: With the big pinchers.
Hari-śauri: They get the lobsters sometimes alive, and they throw them in boiling water, and they can hear them screaming. But now they're speculating whether it's actually the lobsters screaming because it's being boiled alive or whether it's just air that's coming out from its body and making a squeaking noise.
Prabhupāda: No, that is, apart from that, they import lobster from India, Cochin. They are exporting lobster alive. I have seen. The same ship, they load it with lobster fat, and black creepers, and cashews, they exported. The big, big business firms are exporting. So these lobster, although they are kept in ice and so on, so on, they become decomposed. I've seen in the port, that Commonwealth Pier. There is store of lobster, and the lobster has become yellow and almost melted by decomposing. They are selling that.
Hari-śauri: When it starts to fall apart, that's when they consider it's the best.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Prabhupāda: That is grown. And that tree is very costly here in India.
Gargamuni: Cashews are very costly.
Prabhupāda: When I was going to your country at Cochin, they loaded in the ship cashews, black pepper, and lobster, big, big cases. There are many American firms. They are export business. Lobster is very favorite food in USA. Although it is rotten, still, they take it.
Gargamuni: My father used to take at least once a week.
Prabhupāda: Lobster juice.
Gargamuni: Lobster and everything, the juice... He used to eat many lobster, King lobster.
Rāmeśvara: That's a big business. In the state of Maine, that is one of their main sources of income, lobster. Famous, Maine... That state...
Prabhupāda: They get lobster locally or...
Rāmeśvara: They fish. The waters...
Gargamuni: They farm them. It's become like farming. They raise them in scientific way now.
Prabhupāda: Like they grow chicken.
Gargamuni: They artificially fatten them up.
Prabhupāda: For fish-eater, lobster is very favorite.
Gargamuni: Yes. With butter.
Prabhupāda: Here. Here in India.
Gargamuni: They use with butter.
Prabhupāda: Butter? But it has butter, fish.
Prabhupāda: Where I landed in your country there is a storehouse of lobster. They have become so rotten that some of them are coming like pus.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Pus is coming out?
Prabhupāda: Not pus, but the lobster has become so spoiled that it had become like pus, and they're eating that.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They consider that a delicacy.
Prabhupāda: Just see. And for cow, they must be killed. They are taking delicacy, pus. (laughs) There's no danger.
Prabhupāda: One gentleman was taking the lobster, some preparation, liquid.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You were observing this on your arrival in Boston harbor?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, that's where the lobsters are kept, near the harbor. Nowadays the fashion is that you go to a seafood restaurant, and they keep the lobster...
Prabhupāda: The lobsters, I do not know. They take it from Indian foods. It is from Cochin. Cochin, South India. I do not know... Huge quantity of lobsters are there, and they are exported to America.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, they also have them in America, Prabhupāda. There's a lot of them in the whole eastern seaboard.
Prabhupāda: But in India, they take fresh, lobster.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They do that in America sometimes in the so-called high-class restaurants. You choose your lobster, and then you sit down and they boil it alive.
Prabhupāda: Fresh.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. They put them in live in the boiling water. The people who do that, they have to become a lobster and have the same fate? I think we'd better distribute a lot of your books to inform these people.
Prabhupāda: In India they make lobster and loki.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa baṛo doyāmoy. From milk you can make. From ḍāl. Urad ḍāl.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Grains.
Prabhupāda: Jackfruit, this banana. Then banana fruit... Banana, what is called? Flour.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Banana flour.
Prabhupāda: If it is made properly, you can taste lobster.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I noticed that some of these different things... Just like jackfruit.
Prabhupāda: Hm. Jackfruit, yes.
It is a very good idea for people to come to our vegetarian restaurant and take so many nice things, especially the panir, fried cheese, and sandesh, kachori, rasagulla, samosa and in this way they will forget their meat-eating. If you make a soup of fried panir with asafoetida and ginger, this will replace lobster soup nonsense. Of course we are not interested in giving them vegetarian food; we are wanting to give them prasadam. Then gradually they will become devotees.
| Page Title: | Lobster |
| Compiler: | Rishab, Serene |
| Created: | 27 of Sep, 2011 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=15, Let=1 |
| No. of Quotes: | 16 |