Michel Boucher nattered on
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(ASmith1946) wrote in
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TMO wrote:
...and then there were the servants of 18th century littoral New
England on several occasions revolting against the practice of
being fed on lobster, then the cheapest of seafood products.

I've read this for years in secondary sources. Anyone ever found a
primary source that said this?

The farmers of Prince Edward Island, well-known for its lobsters,
never ate them, but picked up beached ones and ground them into the
soil as fertilizer. Tourism made lobsters an industry commodity.

And how often did they riot over being required to eat them?


There's a related passage in the film Mystic Pizza where the daughter

And this was a documentary, right?