Lobster Dinner: From Bottom-Dweller to Status Symbol

(via Great Big Story) Lobster was once served to prisoners and thought of as a poor man’s food fit only for the indigent, indentured and incarcerated. These days a lobster will go for easily $5 a pound and is considered a delicacy. This is the strange culinary story of how a bottom-dwelling crustacean went from prison food to upscale fare.