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The Sporkful

The Secret To Grace Church’s Lobster Rolls

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s, six women on an island off the coast of Massachusetts began selling lobster rolls as a church fundraiser. Today people travel by car, boat, and plane just to taste these hallowed summer treats. This week, one of those people is Dan.

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0:00.0

Where are we today?

0:06.3

What's going on here?

0:07.3

Where are we today?

0:08.3

We are at Grace Church on the island of Martha's Vineyard, and we are preparing to do our

0:14.0

weekly Friday night lobster roll extravaganza.

0:20.0

Every Friday night in the summer, this small, episcopal church on an island off the coast

0:24.1

of Massachusetts sells lobster rolls in their parish hall.

0:28.5

This is not your typical church fundraiser.

0:31.4

Last week we sold 1,400 lobster rolls out of this kitchen.

0:37.0

Wow.

0:38.0

I grew up coming to Martha's Vineyard every summer with my family, and we have been eating

0:41.8

these lobster rolls for years.

0:44.3

Now, in case you're not familiar, at its essence, a lobster roll is chunks of lobster meat

0:48.6

mixed with mayo on a hot dog bar.

0:50.6

And let me tell you, the ones that grace church are special.

0:55.0

Look at it, it's nothing but giant chunks of lobster with maybe enough mayonnaise to make

0:59.3

the chunks stick together.

1:00.3

You sink your teeth in it.

1:02.4

It's so fresh you can actually taste the brine.

1:05.7

Have you had one?

1:06.7

Oh, absolutely.

1:07.7

Then why are you asking me that?

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