Yesterday, a surprise box was delivered to our house in the morning. One of my best friends, Matt (who lives in Boston), sent us live lobsters from Legal Sea Foods, a New England mainstay. Matt was born and raised in Boston so I've heard my fair share of Legal Sea Foods stories over the years. But, I've never eaten there so this was a big treat!
They were inside the box, inside a styrofoam container, wrapped in seaweed with a couple of cool gel pack “blankets” to keep them comfortable. And they seemed to be sleeping when we opened the box, but once we opened it up they started to get active (I think we woke them up). For the rest of the afternoon we could hear them scratch, scratch, scratching the inside of the styrofoam container. Kind of creepy.
And when I took them out of the box to cook them, they really woke up 