According to
CNN, staff members noted one live lobster adorned with orange and black freckles. This surprise lobster happened to be a rare Calico.
Meet Freckles, an ultra-rare (1-in-30M) Calico lobster discovered at one of our Virginia locations! We donated this cool crustacean to the Virginia
Living Museum, where we hope he lives a long and wonderful life. pic.twitter.com/5zlYCXZRDP
This particular diamond-in-the-rough found its way into a shipment of lobsters delivered to the Manassas eatery on April 25; it arrived by way of the country’s proverbial lobster capital, Maine.
Once the restaurant’s staff took note of the little guy’s distinctive pattern, they reached out to the Akron Zoo for advice. The experts there eventually directed them to the (much closer) Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, VA. The organization has since adopted the calico lobster dubbed Freckles and given him a permanent, predator-free home on site.
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A speckled lobster caught the eye of some chefs at Red Lobster. Turns out, it s 1 in 30 million Share Updated: 12:24 PM EDT May 11, 2021 Jocelyn Brumbaugh
A speckled lobster caught the eye of some chefs at Red Lobster. Turns out, it s 1 in 30 million Share Updated: 12:24 PM EDT May 11, 2021
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Show Transcript spared from a pot of boiling water Inside this saltwater tank sits the new star of the Virginia Living Museum as a person who really, really loves all lobsters. Um it was very exciting, just like her name tag shows brit sorensen training and Enrichment coordinator is Loony for lobsters. Lobsters are very underrated. People typically walk by a tank with lobsters in it and they mostly think, oh that looks like it, be tasty. Look at that big lobster, that s kind of crazy, it s scary. But what pastor buys will soon see on display is freckles adorned with golden speckles. This kind of lobster is ac