I get that. I feel kind of sketchy about seafood. Some I love, but fish itself...I can only eat fish whose flesh is firm and white when cooked, and if I even have a remote suspicion that seafood might be old, off, or...”fishy” I won’t touch it.
I do like shellfish of all kinds except oysters.
I completely understand why people don’t enjoy shellfish.
That said, I think those people watching me who were from Iowa and such, were put off by the process of smashing the crab claws with the mallet.
I think for them, it was a little too close to the Gallagher routine where he smashes watermelons with a giant mallet, and everyone in the front row gets covered with the red pulp!
I kind of think it’s more you like to eat what you grow up with.
When I was young we always butchered a steer or two every year, maybe a hog, and some chickens, ducks, or rabbits. We’d eat that with the vegetables that came out of the garden.
So, a good steak with enough grease to drip off your chin is food to me.
Neandthals who lived next to salt water ate what they had plenty of and liked it. Neanderthals who lived on the Asian steppes ate aurochs and mammoth steaks, and they liked that.
I must come from the steppe Neanderthals.
Blue crabs were meant to be ripped open ... there’s even a little tab on the bottom.