Until very recently, the McLobster ($6.50) was served only in the Maritime provinces, and was one of those regional curiosities, like McSpicy Paneer in India, or the Bulgogi Burger in South Korea. But the price of lobster has been declining fairly steadily in the last couple of years, so McDonald's Canada probably decided it was as good a time as any to expand the McLobster to Ontario. McDonald's describes the McLobster as containing "succulent lobster meat combined with celery, green onions, and light mayonnaise-style sauce with a hint of lemon, on top of a bed of shredded lettuce." The lettuce makes up about half of the sandwich, which makes it feel disconcertingly like a salad on a bun, but the lobster is surprisingly okay! It's a bit stringy, and its taste is overwhelmed by the bread and the celery and the mysterious "mayonnaise-style sauce," but it's not bad. There are no off flavors. It's legitimate lobster, not some kind of lobster-shaped mystery meat. Periodically available in Québec as the McHomard, or simply as the Lobster Roll in coastal New England.

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