The small ones generally weigh one pound (about 450 grams), and the large ones are about 2 pounds. Of course, there are large ones, but they are rare. Relatively speaking, Australian lobsters are larger. However, Boston lobster is usually shipped from Maine, so it may be more accurate to call it Maine lobster.

Boston lobster lives in cold seas, and its meat is tender, smooth and delicate. The product has high protein, low fat, vitamins A, C, D and calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur and copper. It is rich in trace elements and delicious.

The British Puritans who first landed in America in the 17th century almost starved to death, mainly because they did not dare to touch unseen animals and plants, including mountains full of wild turkeys and seas full of lobsters. At that time, there were a lot of lobsters on the east coast of North America. How many were there? Occasionally, huge waves would wash up the lobsters on the shore and pile them up two feet high, but no one dared to catch them and eat them.

At that time, a colonist named John Winthrop wrote a letter back to his hometown in Europe, complaining that there was no mutton he was used to eating here, but only oysters, salmon, scallops and clams that the British did not eat. Later, Americans learned to eat lobster, which was plentiful and cheap. Lobster was called "poor man's chicken". No one can buy or sell random things.

By the mid-19th century in the United States, lobster had changed from a cheap food for the poor to a delicacy for ordinary people. In early 1840, Maine began shipping lobsters across the country, with the first shipment arriving in Chicago in 1842. At the end of the 19th century, Maine's annual output of lobsters was 13 million tons. At that time, the wholesale price was US$10 per pound and the retail price was 12 cents. During the same period, consumption of coffee was 5 cents per cup. It should be compared.

Boston lobster is actually called Maine lobster and is not produced in Boston. This kind of large-clawed lobster was originally called North American lobster. It can be found in northeastern North America and even the eastern coast of Canada. Because Maine has a large production and was the first to be commercially harvested, it was named Maine lobster in the 19th century.