The rare orange-colored lobster was nicknamed “Cheddar” by the employees of the Red Lobster restaurant.
Like every day, the restaurant Hollywood red lobster, Florida, received another request for lobsters. As the name indicates, it is a seafood restaurant whose maximum star is that crustacean. But inside that order something caught the attention of all the employees: unlike the others who, before cooking them, are black, in the midst of hundreds of legs and pincers. there was a fluorescent orange.
Right there they made a wise decision: they decided to separate it and not send it directly to the plate. It is that after some initial investigations they received a surprising information: that specimen of lobster only one in 30 million is seen.
Immediately, the employees of the plant reported the find to the aquarium Ripley of Myrtle Beachwho responded promptly to his call.
The orange lobster takes on that color due to a genetic anomaly. They are rarely found by humans.
Lobster was nicknamed “Cheddar”, for the famous Cheddar Bay crackers, a red lobster specialty. Now, the Ripley Aquarium who is now in charge of taking care of the specimen, local media reports.
Mario Roque, manager of Florida Red Lobster, was in charge of alerting the maritime specialists to go and save the lobster.
Experts explain that orange lobsters are extremely rare because their attractive bright color does not allow them to survive the numerous marine predators.
In 2020, an Ohio Red Lobster employee discovered a lobster blue -which they called Clawdia- in the consignment of crustaceans they sent him and he informed the Akron zoo of his discovery, which also took care of the specimen.
Red Lobster employees separated the rare blue lobster they found.
For many, the reaction of the restaurant employees was quite unusual, because instead of cooking lobster as they would any other, they decided to save her from her imminent death.
From the Akron Zoo they claimed that the employee response was due to program called “Seafood Watch”, created by the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Both the zoo and the famous American restaurant chain are allies of this project which aims to “help consumers and businesses choose sustainably produced seafood and fish that protect the oceans,” the zoo’s statement said.
The color of the crustacean is really strange. Experts said it is a genetic anomaly happens to one in thirty million lobsters.
The blue locust is a genetic anomaly that occurs in one in two million cases.
Source: Clarin
