Right now I'm here in Maine. And I would not be surprised, I kid you not, I would not be a bit surprised if there was a lobster flavored baby formula up here. They have lobster everything. Lobster pizza, lobster ice cream (not kidding), and then just plain lobster. I have been fully educated on everything involving or having anything to do with lobster. I have been on a lobster fishing boat, cooked, butchered, and fully demolished and consumed a lobster. 
Now, cooking a lobster yourself is...well...an experience. Luckily, it is hard to pity a lobster, being a fully unfeeling and thoughtless creature. But...then there are the eyes. Those horrible little eyes. As long as you don't look at the eyes, eating a lobster can be quite fun. First, you have to boil them. For this you need a cooker (you don't actually have to have a genuine lobster cooker. A turkey cooker works as well. And you probably won't burn your house down. Probably.). Luckily, our campground supplied one free. Then, when the water starts to boil, you tie the lobsters up in a bag, and put them in the water. 
When the water starts to boil again, you cook them for 13 minutes.
Then, you are ready to eat.
Personally, the claws are my favorite, but the whole lobster is good too. First, you twist off the claws. Then, to get the meat out, you simply pull down on the lower pincher. This open a hole which you can cut with a knife down the rest of the claw to expose the meat. Then, using a small fork, you can pull out the claw meat. The tail or the lobster, though, is considered the delicacy (now, I consider delicacy to be a relative term. You might say that in some parts of the world, snails are also considered a delicacy). First, you cut down the middle of the tail. Then, you twist the tail off the main body. Then, you tear off the sides and pull out the meat. You will now see green goo. This is a subject of debate. Some that are brave (or just plain odd) enough to try it think that it is good. I frankly don't care. I just wiped it off with a napkin and continued the demolishing of my lobster. Now comes the moment of truth (and no, this is not a Verizon commercial). Are you willing to tear the lobster open and in doing so break the head off? My answer was, heck yeah. Meat can be found in the legs and on the inside of the lobster's sides.
Now you've eaten pretty much every part that can be eaten on a lobster. Now the question is, who found out all this? Who was so desperate for food that they would dive down, find this creature that looks kind of disgusting (not to mention they can break your finger off) and decide, "Hey, that looks really good. I bet there is some meat on the inside of that bone breaking claw!"
Now, cooking a lobster yourself is...well...an experience. Luckily, it is hard to pity a lobster, being a fully unfeeling and thoughtless creature. But...then there are the eyes. Those horrible little eyes. As long as you don't look at the eyes, eating a lobster can be quite fun. First, you have to boil them. For this you need a cooker (you don't actually have to have a genuine lobster cooker. A turkey cooker works as well. And you probably won't burn your house down. Probably.). Luckily, our campground supplied one free. Then, when the water starts to boil, you tie the lobsters up in a bag, and put them in the water. When the water starts to boil again, you cook them for 13 minutes.Then, you are ready to eat.
Personally, the claws are my favorite, but the whole lobster is good too. First, you twist off the claws. Then, to get the meat out, you simply pull down on the lower pincher. This open a hole which you can cut with a knife down the rest of the claw to expose the meat. Then, using a small fork, you can pull out the claw meat. The tail or the lobster, though, is considered the delicacy (now, I consider delicacy to be a relative term. You might say that in some parts of the world, snails are also considered a delicacy). First, you cut down the middle of the tail. Then, you twist the tail off the main body. Then, you tear off the sides and pull out the meat. You will now see green goo. This is a subject of debate. Some that are brave (or just plain odd) enough to try it think that it is good. I frankly don't care. I just wiped it off with a napkin and continued the demolishing of my lobster. Now comes the moment of truth (and no, this is not a Verizon commercial). Are you willing to tear the lobster open and in doing so break the head off? My answer was, heck yeah. Meat can be found in the legs and on the inside of the lobster's sides.Now you've eaten pretty much every part that can be eaten on a lobster. Now the question is, who found out all this? Who was so desperate for food that they would dive down, find this creature that looks kind of disgusting (not to mention they can break your finger off) and decide, "Hey, that looks really good. I bet there is some meat on the inside of that bone breaking claw!"
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