"KevinS" > wrote in message
...
> I'm listening to Frederick Hoffman (on the radio) flack his book A
> Short History of the American Stomach/our eating habits and hang-ups
> from
> the Pilgrim Fathers to the present day. Could be
> an entertaining read.


http://octopus.gma.org/lobsters/alla...erhistory.html or
http://tinyurl.com/2tyaes

My how times and marketing have changed:

"In Massachusetts, some of the servants finally rebelled. They had it put
into their contracts that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than
three times a week"