Nope. I've seen 3 stores with dozens available in the last 24 hours.
Coles or woolies?
Woolworths stores in the Illawarra area.
i don't know if i want coked thawed anything.
"shop.coles.com.au/a/churchill-centre/product/coked-thawed"
hhahaha… thawed in coke? thawed having been on coke? either way.. those ones are available and quick google shows they're from WA so…. ;)
apparently available at your local churchill centre too.
I thought maybe the lobsters got so high on coke they just froze by themselves
If it doesn't taste cokey enough be sure to bring the shells back for a refund under the ACL.
Sorry, we couldn't find the page you're looking for
The page may have moved or you might have typed an incorrect URL
These have been on sale for $22-$24 every week since xmas locally in south Canberra. Freshly frozen stockpile from December I'd say.
Wonder who hires the writers. Bought back. Brought back.
it's common with all online media. they want clicks more than they want correct edits.
Bought back from Chinese exporters?
Exactly what I was about to write.
Good. The Chinese can enjoy eating Chinese seafood if they want to continue playing these games. Personally I'm getting pretty sick of artificially inflated prices caused by Chinese demand for anything Australian/high quality.
If there is demand, then can you still call it "artificial" high price?
Or do you mean the price now is artificially low as ScoMo can't stop pissing off our biggest customer?
@berry580: scomo's just a yank lackey, fuelled by his personal hatred of the 'godless' chinese.
He won't stop ever and that suits the yanks fine - doesn't give a shit about oz, never has, never will.
As long as he pays the rich, he will continue on his crusade, supported by a corrupt media. All the religious types sitting adjacent are there for the same reason- easily manipulated and morally corrupt.
@berry580: Just because our biggest customer banned, the price dropped significantly, the same with wine. However, the payback is the unemployed people will be increased a lot.
Don't think those lobsters are considered high quality…The high quality ones are at least double the size. Those are still going for like $99 per KG at your local fish markets.
$19 each at farmer Jacks in WA (It shows expired but is ongoing at my store)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/593072
they must be last years stock if they've been in the freezer but expired
The price at my local Woolworths was $25 a few weeks ago.
They are not always in stock, and I think it was on special for $23 once.
Not that I eat them anyway.
How big is one pop?
tiny
360g to 415g
$20 saved
You think they'll sell you the restaurant quality live lobster for $20?
@KOBH: I'd probably pay more for a bigger one. There's really not much meat once you discard the shell
@Richardc: must have been some special, that is less than even bulk price of buying them off the lobster boats.
@gromit: 60 a kg for live westies are the norm these days, the southern ones are around 70-75/kg depending on the day
@rollin: eastwood seafood shops has live southern for $70/kg up to 1.5kg, the one around flemington station $65/kg
These are baby lobsters.
This is a guide on the weight vs the grade. Does anyone know what grades these would be?
ROCK LOBSTER!!!
We were at the beach….everybody had matching towels!
They don't taste good.
why don't they taste good?
because they Poor Ass lobster
Still just wanting to know like texture, mushy, too salty etc
I saw the normal price is 25 ( Sydney World Square Coles)
Commercial fishing!!
Bit unsure about all this after the Netflix documentary
link
Seaspiracy
there's also cowspiracy
and who killed Sarah?
Wild caught. That can’t be cheap.
They are very easy to catch, and are in shallow coastal waters near Perth.
You just drop a pot with bait, come back a few hours later and pull them out of the water.
It is nothing like deep-ocean fishing. They were dirt cheap until the export market happened. A poor-man's fish. Or used for bait.
What is the weight? $20 each not $20 per kg.. doesn’t sound like a bargain unless I know the weight.
Minimum legal size. So 360g. Serves one person. But they taste the same, whatever the size.
It's not. About 3 per kg, so I'd rather have a steak.
Weighed mine at home. Abt 600g each. Maybe I got lucky. Mine were from Woolies.
Pinchy!
Being crays, they don't have so much pinchy power. :)
Lol it’s a Simpsons reference.
I’ll run a hot bath.
sobbing pass the butter
I think dealbot the luxury seafood item is a live monster lobster in a fish tank not these frozen shrimps .
Overcooked rubbery meat, not worth the price, so I’ll pass :) Good luck to those first time trying!
To call them lobsters is stretching it - they are more the size of large yabbies
plenty in Hurstville wws, no one seems to be interested in these. I personally prefer prawns than these cooked lobster.
because it’s overcooked rubber lol
360g … 1000g/360g = 2.77 * $20 = $55.55 per kg
Normally $65 and that’s for a southern lobster 🦞 which are way better than WA Lobsters
SA Southern lobsters
https://www.fergusonaustralia.com/shop/
What's up with all the negativity?
Our Australian industries are struggling (thanks to Covid-19 and the 'economic sanctions' from China). They need our help yet all everyone is doing here is complain about the size, that it's a rip off, overcooked rubber, etc.
Pull your head in people.
They are struggling now? What about all the profits they made selling these to China for maximum profits?
Takes a pandemic and economic sanctions for them to go hey guys, please buy our lobsters
"We ripped you guys off. Now we need your support"
So you’re saying it’s all chinas fault. Racist much?
It is a senseless fight by politicians from both sides, and then oridinary Australian exporters and Chinese consumers suffer.
AllLoses, in this case
scomo started it - scomo will finish it unless oz gets finished first.
Who said anything about it being chinas fault?
a lot
Re: bargaintoraah
Please point me to where you think the comment is racist?
do they even have these in vic? last time I went through almost 10 coles/woolies looking for these and couldn't find any.
A few days ago I saw the last man standing at my Coles. And you know the size of it lol .
Stopped at Southern Cross Station Coles when I finished work - HUGE amount of lobsters and lobster tails in the deli. Far more than I ever saw at Christmas for sure.
Getting 3 tomorrow
The most important question that is yet to be asked; how do you cook this?
Cut in half top down the middle.
Cheese all over (mozzarella). Pepper to taste.
Oven maybe 180 maybe 20 mins when cheese melts.
Serve. Add tobacco or that other chilli sauce.
Maybe some lemon.
Taste like cigarettes?
Serve. Add tobacco
I guess you meant tabasco right?
LOL
'how do you cook this?'
You don't. They are already cooked.
wrong
When I finally found a store at Christmas that had them they limited the purchase amount per customer so couldn’t even buy enough for our Christmas lunch with the extended family.
Worst $20 I've ever spent.
why?
expensive overcooked rubber.
I've had them and they are decent value at $50 a kilo. After you subtract shell the actual meat cost is 100+ per kg.
But I got from local fishmonger which sells raw or cooked, maybe Woolies/Coles don't do storage and cooking so well.
Just like Xmas, there will be f'all stock