Seen in the "Fast! Easy! Fresh!" section of a cooking magazine (easy dinner recipes for everyday cooking):
Recipe for Easy Lobster Blah Blah Blah:
1st ingredient: 2 live lobsters.
EXCUSE ME! If you have to kill the animal you are about to cook, it automatically disqualifies the recipe from inclusion in the fast! easy! fresh! section.
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Killing lobsters requires nothing but a large pot, a lot of water, and a feeling of not minding about boiling arthropods alive. Fast! and Easy! and...not something I ever plan to do in my life!
My family did that once, when my Montessori pre-school had a "bake sale" or sorts, where lobsters were the only bread in town. Before throwing them in the pot, my parents released them on the kitchen floor and my sister and I named and played with them. Then the got thrown in the pot and squealed for what seemed like days. I never recovered.
There's a technique you can use to kill them immediately before plunging them into the pot so they don't make that screaming sound (which, incidentally, is air escaping from under their shell, not actually screaming). You have to stab them behind the head in exactly the right place, though. So it's not exactly a trauma-free technique.
I have found in cases like there that it is very helpful to be evil, or at least pretend very convincingly for a few minutes.
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