• Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Whoever prepared it took “lobster roll” a bit literally. It’s lobster, atop a roll-like leavened bread product. It is technically correct.

  • Regna@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This looks delicious.

    Sorry for the stupid question: I know that I could search it up on the internet, but how was it a roll? Looked like folded bread/banh mi/bao with a few sauced lobster bits up on top. Was it before the pre-roll?

    • ArtieShaw@kbin.social
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      The name means just “lobster in/on a roll” - with roll meaning " a small bread" rather than the act of rolling something. This does look delicious, but it is also somewhat atypical of the dish as I know it. The bread looks underdone and untoasted and the lobster is just sort of sitting on top, weirdly. Typically, the lobster is loaded into a slice in the roll and there is much more of it. Paradoxically, you can eat a proper lobster roll without a knife and fork, but this one seems to demand that you use utensils.

      A google image search will demonstrate more clearly, but I could describe it as “an unholy amount of lobster salad in a hotdog bun.”

      Also - worth noting: you can make a lobster roll with the shellfish dressed with either butter or mayonnaise/lemon. Differences are regional and although it causes mostly good natured fights, I think both are nice. This one appears to be of the butter variety.

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      1 year ago

      *hand raised.

      No shade to OP, but it isnt a lobster roll. But I would try it, got to try new things and all.

  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    From New England and grew up in a seafood restaurant and thats not a lobster roll. That aside it looks great and I’m all for trying new things! Glad you enjoyed it!