Lobster

A crustacean that tastes with its feet and chews with its stomach/Food & Drinks

The American lobster (Homarus americanus) is the heaviest crustacean in the world, with the largest recorded specimen weighing 20.1 kg. Lobsters taste food using chemosensory hairs on their feet and legs, and their stomach (the gastric mill) contains tooth-like structures that grind food after it is swallowed. They have blue blood because their oxygen-carrying molecule, hemocyanin, uses copper instead of the iron found in hemoglobin. Lobsters continue to grow throughout their lives and do not appear to slow down, weaken, or lose fertility with age. They can regenerate lost claws, legs, and antennae. Wild lobsters are greenish-brown; they turn red only when cooked, as heat breaks down all pigments except the red astaxanthin.