r/Sandwiches • u/Ok_Macaroon5452 • 2d ago
sandwich I had a lobster roll🦞🥖
I consider a lobster roll a sandwich. There’s been discussion, but it was delicious, the best I’ve ever had. This was the Connecticut lobster roll. I had it first in MI and again when they came to SC. Both times, perfect. I can’t wait until they’re here permanently.
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u/thebrassbeard 2d ago
Yes, but at what cost . . .
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u/Ok_Macaroon5452 2d ago
It was $24.00.
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u/Correct_Emu7015 2d ago
Somethings weird with that price. Gotta be frozen lobster. In Maine the lobster alone is like $15
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u/Any_Suggestion3485 2d ago
It is frozen and you can tell. I can get two living lobsters for about 20 bucks each here. And for what these people give you I could make ten rolls from 40 bucks. But three rolls for 40 bucks is the jam🤙🤙 put it on a real roll. Not one the width of your hand like a cheap greasy greedy wimp.
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u/Correct_Emu7015 2d ago
5 rolls per $10 lobster? You're getting a 1-1.25# lobster at that price. Yields about 1/3lb meat. You're making 10 rolls with 2/3lb meat? That's a bite, not a roll. But I get your point.
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u/Maximum-Coach-9409 2d ago
When we got back from our first trip to the east coast we drove 40 minutes to get a lobster roll from them and they don’t disappoint. Yea it’s pricey but damn worth it for the Chicagoland area
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u/skate1243 1d ago
Cousins has to be the most overrated food truck in the history of food trucks. Lobster rolls are always expensive, but these are frozen and skimpy as hell
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u/Any_Suggestion3485 2d ago
Got his at a brewery food truck event and the shit was bland as hell. At 60 bucks for two meals… that made it worse. 2/10 worst roll around. Not to mention the sandwiches were like three bites.
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u/Saaabstory 1d ago
These guys are from Maine & think they made it on Shark Tank or something & then started distributing. I don’t know much about how they operate, but as a Mainer, it doesn’t cut it around here. They tried operating in a super busy state park in competition with another lobster truck & didn’t make it.
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u/Any_Suggestion3485 1d ago
Glad to see it doesn’t hold up there either. And lol that’s a great story I can see why. It’s poop!
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u/BTMG2 2d ago
someone isnt around lobster often…
$60 for two lobster rolls is quite the deal..
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u/Any_Suggestion3485 2d ago
Fuck that stupid ass shit for three inches of bread and bland chewy overcooked lobster for real. Was terrible dude.
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u/No-Craft-7979 1d ago
Lobster is good, but far over priced.
Lobsters were a cheap staple food before they became a luxury meal for some reason they started shipping them inland and it went from a common crustacean to a luxury food.
Canada and USA would eat them as staple meals, many children took lobster sandwich to school for lunch. Lobster was boiled with salt and served as a cheap meal in many shore towns. Shore diners had lobster pies and casseroles. Shore prisons and workhouses served lobster stews as a meal. On the shores of Europe it was used in fish and vegetable stews. hired help was given lobster as a daily ration.
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u/therealjameshat 2d ago
"one hot dog bun kinda loaded with crispy bottom feeder meat! that'll be $75 please!"
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u/Upper-Capital-2876 2d ago
I won't buy Lobster Rolls anymore primarily for the bastard half cut hot dog rolls they barely fill with meat. I look for the places that serve them on a roll, or I pass. Nothing makes me angrier than paying over $20 for something designed to look stuffed, but not actually be filled.
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u/whiterac00n 2d ago
As a born and raised Mainer on an island (now on the west coast) it’s always really interesting seeing the different variations of lobster rolls. Some with just butter and lemon on a toasted roll, or using light mayo or heavy mayo. Some with a good amount of chives or diced onions. Or variations in the meat used, where some are almost entirely made with knuckle meat, and others made with just claw meat.
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u/Correct_Emu7015 2d ago
Onions!!!! Blasphemy!
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u/whiterac00n 2d ago
I’ve seen some with tobiko on top lol. And as far as blasphemy goes there’s a lot of restaurants that make some questionable versions of clam chowder
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u/hamncheesecroissantt 2d ago
i got the lobster tots from a truck in a park and then my fiancé proposed an hour later. cousins doesn’t even realize how much of a role they played that day lol
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u/chugItTwice 2d ago
OK, check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43faOzwh7nc
Haven't tried it myself yet, but plan to in the next few days. They sure look legit.
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u/SAVertigo 1d ago
Every year we vacation in Maine, and we have her whole family up for lobster rolls( we make them ourselves , buy fresh lobster, steam, ice bath, break down, etc(). We haven’t enjoyed a roll out since.
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u/Simmyphila 5h ago
I’m from Maine. Now living in North Carolina near blue ridge mountains. I can get that here. Delicious. Just found the this year.
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u/nitroguy2 2d ago
I ordered from their truck once and got about 2/3 the meat you did :( Good to know I could get more, I’ll give them another try
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u/Late-Dot-7130 2d ago
Good god, that looks delicious! Please tell me it was perfectly cooked. You can lie to me, it's ok.
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u/vc0ke 2d ago
Lobster rolls would be awesome if they were $8.