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At steamed-crab time, how do you eat?
baltimoresun ^ | July 8, 2009 | Rob Kasper

Posted on 07/12/2009 1:18:45 PM PDT by JoeProBono

When you eat steamed crabs are you a dipper, a swiper or a sauce-maker? A dipper removes the crab meat from the shell then drops it in a bowl of liquid, usually apple-cider vinegar or melted butter. A swiper rubs the crab meat quickly over the bits of seasoning clinging to the shell. A sauce-maker combines ingredients, usually mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup, then drags the crab meat through this creation. There is also another option: None of the above. That is, just eating the crab meat as soon as it pops out of the shell....

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41 posted on 07/12/2009 2:09:18 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Double yuck!! Why ruin a perfectly good steak with a bottom dweller that lives off carcasses and fish feces. That’s worse than putting ketchup or mayo on it. *wink*


42 posted on 07/12/2009 2:11:24 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: JoeProBono

None of the above. I usually rinse it off with cold water and stand right there at the sink and eat it.

You’re making me hungry!!


43 posted on 07/12/2009 2:23:33 PM PDT by EggsAckley (There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
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To: Oberon

Shellfish are just an excuse eat sauce.


44 posted on 07/12/2009 2:26:55 PM PDT by Woebama
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To: JoeProBono

Ah, Fisherman’s Grotto. I’ve spent thousands of happy hours at that place in my 63 years.

Alioto’s Number 9.


45 posted on 07/12/2009 2:28:50 PM PDT by EggsAckley (There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
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To: mountaineer1997

“stop steaming live animals”

You’re supposed to steam crabs alive! That way you know they’re fresh.

Adding to waistlines? Obviously you’ve never been to a crab feast. Crabmeat is very lean and you expend nearly as much energy taking them apart as is in the caloric content.

BTW, check out various lobster `cruelty’ incidents involving Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

(Hint: crustaceans’ nervous systems are incapable of sensing pain, as in boiling or being chopped up.)


46 posted on 07/12/2009 2:40:05 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: JoeProBono

Pull that backfin out and drag it through some more Old Bay. The crabmeat is an excellent way to convey the Old Bay to your mouth.

One can never have too much Old Bay. It’s good on everything but ice cream and aspirin.


47 posted on 07/12/2009 2:41:51 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: mrs. a

48 posted on 07/12/2009 2:44:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Oberon

To be fair, you would seem to fit right into the Maryland political scene, however.

Amazing, amazing place. Like in totally different politically, than say forty years ago. I just don't get it, for I still know many people there who are indeed the same conservative (honest) folks of that past time.

Was it the Baltimore Sun? Paul Sarbanes? Barbara Mikulski? Marvin Mandel? Bloomberg and the Johns Hopkins U? Washington DC environs with the modern day expansion of central gov't? Greater population density?

Whatever the reasons Maryland (including Balto) is a modern day philosophical abomination of what it once was. And whatever those reasons I'm afraid they speak for a nation in general.

Although I will say again, as posted here years ago, Barabara Mikulski could be pointedly put on the spot in front of her constituency (blue collar) and forced to revert to conservative (honesty and responsibility) ideals. Indeed it is the "Republicans" who have failed us in doing so.

Hopefully that is Sarah Palin's motivation.

49 posted on 07/12/2009 2:51:58 PM PDT by jnsun (The LEFT: The need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer)
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To: Woebama
Shellfish are just an excuse eat sauce.

King crabs, yes... blue crabs, no.

50 posted on 07/12/2009 3:14:22 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: jnsun

My extended family still mostly lives in northwest Frederick County... an area as conservative now as it was in 1950, in many respects. They just shake their heads when we talk about the politics of the people “down’na city.”


51 posted on 07/12/2009 3:19:22 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: jnsun

Go to babs Mikulski’s web site and read the recipe for Blue Crab cakes. They call it Mikulski’s recipe. My butt. She stole it almost word for word right off the Old Bay can.

Plagiarism.

By the way as a native of St. Mary’s County, and trot liner extraordinaire, I catch what I eat and I eat them right out of the shell. My wife is a dipper.


52 posted on 07/12/2009 3:38:22 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Oberon

Lived in a small waterman’s town on Eastern Shore of MD for several years. You can tell the tourists by use of crab mallets, the locals all use a sharp knife. Also the city people are all called ‘chicken neckers’ for the bait they use to catch crabs. Pros use eel or bull lips. But the answer to the big question is usually right out of the shell after being steamed in LOTS of Old Bay. I used to be able to buy a bushel of crabs right off the boat for $10-15, could have them steamed in 10 minutes for $2.00, ladies in town could pick the whole bushel in an hour (would take me 3 days)for $10 and I ended up with 9 or 10 pounds of crab meat for under $30. Would make crab cakes, crab soup, crab imperial, crab mornay, etc. etc. and freeze it. But the absolutely best part of this is that my wife and kids don’t like crab so all winter long while they had spaghetti or tuna casserole or something similar I feasted on various dishes of Maryland blue crab. Only downside is that it ruined me for having crabs anywhere but the Chesapeake.


53 posted on 07/12/2009 3:41:48 PM PDT by AUH2O Repub (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: B-Chan

How about, I don’t like crab but love lobster?


54 posted on 07/12/2009 3:46:05 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

I don’t get it. Crab and lobster taste similar. How can you like one and not the other?


55 posted on 07/12/2009 4:14:55 PM PDT by B-Chan
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To: B-Chan

For me lobster has little taste. Now snow crab or king crab that’s mighty good eatin. One of the best meals I ever had was a little bar/restaurant that served Fettucini Alfredo with big chunks of crab meat.


56 posted on 07/12/2009 4:28:28 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway)
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To: JoeProBono

Wow, I could sure go for some sea food. I need to make that happen sometime soon.


57 posted on 07/12/2009 4:29:30 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: mysterio
Help yourself!


58 posted on 07/12/2009 4:36:08 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

That looks amazing. I gained two pounds looking at that pic, I think.


59 posted on 07/12/2009 4:39:55 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: JoeProBono
Haven't had good steamed crab since I was up in Baltimore last time....Recently I've just had to settle for Crab in my California Rolls.....MMMMMMMMMM good with lots of Wasabi..
60 posted on 07/12/2009 4:50:37 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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