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But before lobster became a gourmet food ... which is how it came to have the nickname of the "poor man's protein." The seafood was also used as fertilizer for crops and to feed livestock.

Lobster became known as the "poor man's protein" among European settlers, and the shellfish was often served to imprisoned and enslaved people. That reputation in the US didn't turn around until ...