Originally Posted by slawecki
A 5-9 pounder would yield very close to 50% of weight in meat. A 5 lb lobster should have over 2 lbs of meat, not counting the stuff in the legs
would tend to agree and I have been to steakhouses where the tail was obscene in size, mine at the Palm as reported above was tiny.
Originally Posted by ALadyNCal
My first impression was that the tail didn’t look very big for a 5 lb lobster. I had envisioned left-overs because a 5 lb lobster dinner sounded very large to me….but turns out it wasn’t.
I'm not glad that you did not have leftovers, I too was envisioning leftovers for a Lobster BLT the following day, but sadly my lobster's tail left quite a bit to be desired from the size standpoint.
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