Junkfood

Lobster is on sale for $4.99 a pound at Market Basket this week. They can cook the lobster for you (they steam it), but if you do this in New Hampshire you'll pay an additional 8% meals tax. (There's no tax on live lobster.) These are "new shell" lobsters, which apparently means that they have less meat, compared to regular hard-shell lobsters.

The Maine Lobster Festival is this weekend. (http://www.mainelobsterfestival.com/). The Food Network recently showed (or re-ran) an episode of All American Festivals featuring it. There's a Food Network web page for the episode, along with links to recipes from the lobster cooking contest featured in the episode.

There are two all-you-can-eat lobster buffets in the area. Nordic Lodge in Charlestown, Rhode Island, is the older buffet. It is $65 (tax and gratuity included). Custy's International in North Stonington, Connecticut, is a more recently opened incarnation of a Custy's restaurant that used to be in Rhode Island. It is $62.95 (tax and gratuity not included). I've never been to either. I note that you could spend approximately the same amount of money and buy 12 pounds of lobster at Market Basket (approximately 7-8 lobsters).