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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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*
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!!
Shellfish are just an excuse eat sauce.
Ah, Fisherman’s Grotto. I’ve spent thousands of happy hours at that place in my 63 years.
Alioto’s Number 9.
“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.)
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.
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.
King crabs, yes... blue crabs, no.
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.”
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.
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.
How about, I don’t like crab but love lobster?
I don’t get it. Crab and lobster taste similar. How can you like one and not the other?
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.
Wow, I could sure go for some sea food. I need to make that happen sometime soon.
That looks amazing. I gained two pounds looking at that pic, I think.
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