#lobster

Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#lobsters #scarcity #trivia #diet

Once an opportunist like Mickey, who took the argument when she jumped on some devastated wretch's machine and jackpotted that it was the "cash-ino's money" she was winning, Moon returned after her six month break with the view that the separation had somehow sweetened the honeypot. The sad reality, she quickly learned, was that she was not irreplaceable; as such, the Casino felt no compunction to welcome her back with multi-jackpots. Instead, it took her money everyday and did not once give her a jackpot so that she could say, "Ah. They missed me." Instead, all she could keep saying was, "Verr-y bed. Verr-y bed. Suck-ah all my money! ↗

— Hope Barrett

#casinos #cleopatra-igt #gambling #jackpots #life-lessons

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. ↗

— Bernie Mac

#boat #chance #cigars #earth #get

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. ↗

— Lord Byron

#champagne #drinking #eating #feminine #lobster

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. ↗

— Brooke Burke

#horrified #i #lobsters #ocean #shrimp