Why Lobster Is So Expensive | So Expensive 

If chicken is expensive in the future, imma tell my grandson that I used to eat a bucket of em.

"Poor man's protein" How times have changed

The prisoners 300 years ago: wtf what is this cheap lobster crap

Poor people: *Eats normal food at the time* Rich people: *tries normal food for the first time* Rich people: It’s free real estate

69 years later: *Why Chicken is so expensive?*

Back in the day, lobster and champagne with a serving of caviar was a poor man's meal...

Funny true story... My wife and I went to very upscale,sophisticated restaurant for an anniversary. We were seated in a nice secluded booth,but very close to the live lobster tank. As we sat there people watching and talking,we saw each waiter and waitress bring a couple over to the lobster tank and let each choose the living lobster they wanted for dinner. Interestingly, we noticed that after the chosen lobster was ceremoniously removed from the tank ,placed on a flat s.steel platter,and then carried into the kitchen.. The happy couple went back to their table, and sat down. Then, we began noticing something odd...after say five minutes or so, a waiter would carry a live lobster from the kitchen back to the lobster tank and drop it back in the tank. After seeing this process repeated several times, my wife and I had a light bulb moment. Ha,ha, the kitchen wasn't actually killing and cooking the live lobster. They were probably serving frozen Lobster. It was all for ceremony. Reminded us of the movie with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick where rich people were told they were eating eating endangered animals at $100,000.00 per plate, but they were served turkey tettrazini.

This So Expensive series is one of my absolute favorites on any video platform. Short, straight to the point, great speaking, awesome animations, great sound score, informative, etc. i could go on and on. Great work

**In a parallel universe** A lobster's probably watching 'Why are humans so expensive?'

Lobster used to be fed to prisoners because they were so readily available Just wow

As someone who grew up spending summers at my grandma's in Maine, I wish they would've gone to an actual lobsterman in Maine rather than a fancy NYC restaurant. There are families there that have been lobstermen since the colonial era where they were still the cockroaches of the sea

Is not a single person going to talk about how the live lobsters in the restaurant shots are all missing a claw?

~Year 2569~ *Why Air Is So Expensive*

"Lobster were known as the cockroach of the sea and even served to prisoners" Me: Dem prisoners were living lavish!

Depending on which country you are in (or even in which part of the producing country), lobster prices vary quite a bit and also depending on the season. In Eastern America, and during the in-season, Atlantic lobsters can be cheaper than many varieties of fish. Of course in Europe and especially in Asia, lobsters are outrageously priced, especially the spiny lobsters

When you go to Red Lobster: "Dad, my dinner is looking at me funny."

I thankfully live near a fishing locality were lobster is about 20 bucks a big one, not gonna lie it is pretty delicious

Everybody: we need to stop global warming Lobsters: NO

Please do more seafood episodes. I love it. I rewatch it every once in a while

Lol I lived on an island where they come up onto the beaches in the early hours of the morning. Was pretty interesting to watch.

Lobster is very expensive because everyone wants to be and live a life like Larry

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There is nothing gonna be expensive without your hard work

Once when we went vacationing at Mt Dessert Island in Maine, we were eating whole steamed live caught that morning lobsters for $3-5 each! It was a "soft shell" but I couldn't tell any difference so we ate many many lobsters lol

Once they dipped the lobster in butter, it became gourmet.

My family was so poor when my dad was a child he got sent to school with lobster sandwiches & the kids all laughed at him because they had ham or peanut butter.... but there arent very many places that you can be from & tell that story.

i like how at the end the man is just starring at nothing and then tries to say something but the video ends

2010s: why is king crab so expensive...... 2020s:why is toilet paper so expensive now?

This the type of shit you watch at 3 AM when you can't sleep.

If lobsters were considered the Cockroaches of the sea does that mean the Cockroaches of the land will become a delicacy 🤔🤔

It's so funny when lobsters stick their claws up like "AYYYY"

My family knew fishemen when I was young and I took it for granted. I miss eating it all summer long :(

Because rich people started liking them. THERE YA GO! SAVED YOU TIME

That might be the first advantage of Global warming I've heard in long time

I'm a live crab and lobster supervisor in the shellfish factory i work for. Here in UK, female lobsters carrying eggs are legal to be sold, the Chinese don't want them but we do ship them all around Europe, there's no such thing as too big lobsters either, although they do taste much worse than let's say 600-g 1000g ones. They can only be too small in which case fishermen would release them back into the ocean, or in very few cases they would try to mix them in with the rest of the lobsters and we would be returning the small ones as we do weigh every individual lobster by hand.

It’s so funny I just watched a video that explains why lobster is so cheap right now and this shows up as recommended lol

It’s cause Mr Krab hoards all of the money :D

I'm from Maine, lobster still are cockroaches of the sea 😂 The reason they cost at much? Bc tourists will pay for it, sorry for the harshness, just being honest

I am kinda addicted to this kind of content.

Lobsters taste exactly the same when you cook them after you killed em

For some reason Christianity doesn't consider fish to be meat. That's so confusing

They're expensive because it's harder to catch and keep fresh until served. It has nothing to do with rich man or poor mans food.

Answer: When people like things, they try their hardest to source in large amounts despite scarcity, driving up prices.

4:49 Perfect timing :)😊😉👍

years to come rappers are going to start flexing on how expensive their lobster is.

Summer In NY: "Let's get lobster rolls". Summer In CA: *ground trembling*

Now I feel sad that I’m allergic to lobster and other crustacean, I tried it before my body reacted to crustacean and it tastes SO GOOD

Cooking lobsters alive seems inhumane to me. I’ve read that they suffer for about 20 seconds before they die.

me: notices poor people food becomes rich people food Also me: don't touch my great value potato chips.

When did lobsters become such a delicacy? When butter was invented!

Lobster served to prisoners you tube exists: Why Is So Expensive

A friend mine that I ran with came from a very well connected family , every so often cases and cases of lobster would fall off trucks and we would find them Those things were easy to move and we were left With dozens of them I ate so much lobster 🦞 1 summer I couldn’t touch it for 20 years

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Lesson of the Day: No matter how low valued you are now, your value will increase over time.

Is so interesting to see the history behind the prize and how people see food

(3:17) This is an excellent video on one of my favorite foods (hey, I'm from San Francisco...gotta give an honorable mention to the Dungeness crab 🦀). Anyway, I understand why the small lobsters are thrown back, but why are the large ones also thrown back?

After watching this, I am reminded of how damn lucky I am. My husband is a fish merchant, and my in-laws catch lobster for a living. I don’t get that often, but when I do it’s such a treat every single time. I live on seafood! Lobster, Dover sole, langoustines, sole, prawns, scallops. 😋 👅

6:52 me zoning out in a middle of a conversation 😂

the first time I watched this, I was so drunk that I got upset about the fact that lobster was NOT at the last supper-the painting or the event.

His expression just says: "Im just not phased at all"

i edited this so you guys won't have any clue on why I have these likes.

$34.00 for a lobster roll. That’s crazy. I’m glad I live in San Diego

Look at these nice guys throwing back lobsters with eggs. Here in Vietnam they are sold for extra cost because ppl loves eating them.

My all time favorite side dish for my meals❤️

There's actually a province here in Ph in which lobster are used to be fisherman's staple food. And then business men knew of this, they've started to negotiate with local fishermen. They are buying lobsters for insanely low price from them and businessmen bring lobsters in the city and sold them expensively.

Lobster: Living a happy normal life. Humans: *Giornos Theme*

a few years back I would go strait to the docks and buy a big one for about 5 bucks in maine

When lobsters are out, those little yabbies in the fish tank will come in handy XD

If anyone is ever in the Tampa Bay Area, I recommend a place called lobster haven. Amazing lobster, and a lot cheaper then some other places. They use Maine lobster, and you can actually see the live lobster in these water-filled boxes.

Larry is just too busy being the lifeguard in goo lagoon so he doesn’t have enough time to go anywhere except if your talking about money

i like how just as he was about to say something the video ends

I was born and raised on the east coast and had seafood all the time. Now I live in the desert. I miss the old days.

Lobster: Hiroyuki Terada: good afternoon

I once caught 500 lobster in one hour. On my runescape acc.

Its insane how the lobsters are kept alive in tiny boxes for transport or in tanks in the restaurants. Insane.

I always thought they look like cockroaches so never wondered what it would teast like. Now when I know they were actually being called cockroaches of sea, I'm not even gonna try.😂😂😂

Come on down to Nova Scotia, lobster fishermen are everywhere, lobsters come in and get sold for $7 a pound (Nova Scotia is like Maine but more canadian)

"Take you girlfriend to Cambodia, buy her a lobster dinner...spend more than $1" - Agent J, MIB

Due to COVID19, since no one is going out for dinner anymore, the prices of Lobster in parts of Canada have dropped tremendously, shops offer lobsters as cheap as $10CAD for takeout.

I can't comprehend how are they able to hold that lobster that easy! I won't even dare to go touch a crab.

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Lobster is the most dirtiest thing you can eat, "it cleans the ocean". It is basically like a pig, but in the water.

having a lot of family in Massachusetts, lobster was a classic food in summer.. but I felt bad for the little dudes. Insanely delicious though (imo), with lemon and melted butter. It's very rich. Like shrimp but with a slightly different texture and more buttery taste (it's not salty/fishy tasting)

I still remember getting one claw removed canners for $1.25 each. 40 bucks and you could feed a bunch of folks at a lobster boil. that was around 1993-4

Actually went to ed's lobster bar 2019's Christmas. Was hella good

10 years later when everyone is done with lobsters why cockroaches are so expensive

Most Asian stores in Washington state and Vancouver BC Canada sells them live from tanks retail for 8 to 12.00 a pound so definitely this restaurant suppliers are marking it up atleast 200percent

Who knows, one day, we might consider The cafeteria “mystery stew” a delicacy .

Ed looks like the older version of Damien from Smosh!

Lobster tastes great, but the way they prepare and handle them makes me not want to eat it :(

In lobster season in eastern canada, you will pay 6-7$ cad (5$usd) per lbs in any groceries or 4$ cad at the dock. Out of the season its about 15$ cad (11.5 usd) per lbs. Also, lobster cant die from aging. Canada is the country who have the most lobster and have stricter rule regarding lobster fishing. You can also find easily lobster on the shore or scuba diving in nova scotia, new brunswick or in gaspesie,qc. Its also popular to eat in family lobster with garlic butter for mother's day

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Wow.. It's look like difference with Indonesia lobster. How amazing..

(Somewhat) Little known fact...there are lobsters on the west coast of the US too. They lack the huge claws of the east coasters but IMO, still taste like traditional lobsters. They are also legal to hunt(in severe moderation).

I was born in Kazakhstan and when I was small my mum would force me to eat caviar as it considered to have health benefits. She would buy a 3 litre jar full of caviar and literally put a full table spoon of it on toast a tell me to eat. I never liked caviar much as a child so she used to tell me -Eat it as a medicine . Now I love caviar but it’s soooo expensive. The same amount she used to put on my toast will cost me £120 now

Its expensive because jackasses keep paying too much for it.

This is a fun fact that I’m surprised isn’t mentioned in the comments cause I think the study came out after the video, but lobster traps are actually highly ineffective at catching lobsters. We pull them up and there can be a bunch but they set up cameras recording a trap and saw that over 90% of lobsters would swim in eat some of the bait and swim on out.

I heard from a friend who lives in the southern province of my country, im from the philippines, that each live lobster sold there doesnt cost over $10 each since that part of my country is a seafood capital