America’s Best Restaurants Roadshow couldn’t resist checking out a new monster lobster roll that’s just been rolled out in midcoast Maine.
In their latest episode, team hosts Theo Williams, Danyel Detomo, Luis Rivera, and J. Russell stopped by the Taste of Maine Restaurant in Woolwich with one goal in mind: trying the eatery’s massive new Monster Lobster Roll.
The new monstrosity is a full 3 feet long, loaded with 2½ pounds of fresh Maine lobster meat, including tail, claw, and knuckle.
“It’s a seafood lover’s dream and comes with a $259.99 price tag” reports i95rocks.com.“
The original version is no small feat, stretching 22 inches long, and anyone who can finish one earns a spot in the restaurant’s “Clean Plate Club,’” says I95’s The Kid, aka Arlen Jameson.
But this summer, Taste of Maine decided to take things to another level.
The Route 1 landmark has been serving up fresh seafood since 1978 and is already famous for its giant inflatable lobster that sits on the roof and its legendary “World’s Largest Lobster Roll.”
Located at 161 Main Street in Woolwich, Taste of Maine is celebrating its 48th season.
“With summer adventures in full swing and the 4th of July weekend coming up, it just might be the perfect excuse to plan a coastal road trip, enjoy some fresh Maine seafood, and see if you can tackle a lobster roll longer than your arm,” Jameson teases.
Gotta Love that huge inflatable lobster !
Flatlander lunch.
Im not one of the few elite Mainers that could afford even 1/4 of that thing, so Im assuming this is for the elite an tourist only club.
Supporting New Mainers lifestyles and learing centres I can barely afford the smallest lobster roll.
Lobster meat is the best bang for your buck, it takes 6lbs of lobster in the shell to make 1lb of meat. No bib needed, lol. We picked hundreds of pounds of meat growing up( 30-50lbs per day) . We rode to work with dad and got the cookers going, then we cooked culls ( one claw ) for the meat. We even sold the lobster bodies by the bag. We had a hand crank machine for the leg meat, which my sister used to make some pretty good money.
It was a great time to grow up in Maine. Mind you we were young 13yrs for me, worked retail etc. Dad kept us all busy.
Great story Rooster !
When we were little kids my father would hose out all the galvanized trash cans and stand them in the trunk of the car .
We’ d go down to the dock and get fresh shrimp shoveled into the cans . I think it was like ten cents a pound .
We’d take them home and break the bodies from the tails and my mother would boil them .
It was a weekend marathon . We worked at it till the shrimp were all cleaned , cooked , bagged , and frozen .
By the time we were done our hands were raw.
It was like Forest Gump .
Shrimp and rice . Shrimp and noodles . Shrimp stew . Shrimp scampi . Shrimp salad . Shrimp Shrimp .Shrimp .
Call me a “pig” if you will, but this has my undivided attention. ZOM!
@ Louise, yup we all picked shrimp as well for for .25/lb. We would meet the boats when they came in, cols nights.. Fill up a truck with trash cans, fill them with shrimp then the trick was to soak therm overnight in fresh water. The next morning the neighborhood women and some men would come and pick them. On weekends it was us kids and a few friends picking. Sunday was a day to go skiing, then of course before we went home it was a detour to the wharf to you guessed it, offload the boats so there would be shrimp for the next day. And holy cow didn’t our hands itch from the iodine in the shrimp.