Moby click: The giant crab can break a man's fingers with its claws
Cracking: The crab's claws are the size of a man's hands
Posted on 07/04/2008 3:29:36 AM PDT by Stoat
Claws for concern: Paul Worsley gets to grips with the giant crab he caught in Lyme Regis harbour
Moby click: The giant crab can break a man's fingers with its claws
Cracking: The crab's claws are the size of a man's hands
For his efforts, he can congratulate himself on capturing what experts believe is the biggest edible crab ever landed.
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The previous largest edible crab on record is in the collection of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Its carapace was 11in wide.
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Unfortunately, Mr Worsley's crab will not be displayed in any museum. A friend has eaten it.
Giant crab landed in British waters - Telegraph
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Paul Worsley proudly shows off his record catch
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Yipes! That’s one brave crabber! Hope it tasted good.
Indeed! From the linked Telegraph article:
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I've done some scuba diving in my day, but I'm not so sure that if I were to be diving a wreck and saw something like this crawling around that my first reaction would be: "Yes! I want to take that with me! Come 'ere big guy!"
Hope it tasted good.
For his family and several neighbors perhaps!
Also from the Telegraph:
"It's going to provide a lot of meat - enough to feed at least 10 people."
I caught crabs in England once. They were very tiny though, these buggers would really make you itch.
Pass the butter please.:)
And I thought I had a bad case of crabs, once.
I feel a Helen Thomas appearance coming.
Hello, breakfast.
Thanks Stoat.
Paris Hilton wants that thing back.
You should have stayed away from Madonna.
I got a bunch of those on Spring Break in Panama City in 1977.
So sorry! I searched FIVE TIMES before I posted and NOTHING relevant came up. The search functions used to work so much better around here.
"sigh"
Breakfast of Crab
1648; Oil on canvas; The Hermitage at St. Petersburg
Heda, Willem Claesz. (1593/94-1680/82). Dutch still-life painter, active in Haarlem. He and Pieter Claesz. are the most important representatives of ontbijt (breakfast piece) painting in the Netherlands. His overall grey-green or brownish tonalities are very similar to those of Claesz., but Heda's work was usually more highly finished and his taste was more aristocratic. He showed a preference for ham, mince-meat pie, and oysters, and after 1629 never included a herring in his pictures. His son Gerrit (d. 1702) was his most important pupil.
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