It's the "I LOVE CRABS" poll: What's your favorite Crabs??

[LynneSin]

Poll question: It's the "I LOVE CRABS" poll: What's your favorite Crabs??

Man, it's crab season in Delaware and I can't wait to get me a big steaming pile of steamed crabs!!!

What's your favorite type of crabs??

A:)

B:)

C:)

d:)

e:)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Other: any kind I don't get in my private parts.

[LynneSin]

4. You mean these guys?

Yuck!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. Yeah.... ewww....

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[RebelOne]

2. Love stone crabs.

Used to have them all the time in Florida, but here in Georgia, it's hard to find them.

[arwalden]

3. I know... I know... A Marylander Who Prefers Snow Crabs Instead Of

our native Chesapeake Bay crabs is traitorous and sinful. Sorry.

-- Allen

[LynneSin]

5. Ok, that's it - you'll have to move from Maryland now

:mad:

[demnan]

9. Sacrilege!

You just had to be different, didn't you? ;-)

[demnan]

6. I'm assuming by hardshells you mean the blue crab

which is my very favorite, favorite food in the whole world! The swimmers of the Cheasapeake are legend for their tasty sweet meat steamed with Old Bay, red pepper and salt.

[LynneSin]

8. Yes and I like mine sauted with garlic

mmmmmmm....garlic!

[arwalden]

10. Well... I Do Like Blue Crab Crabcakes...

especially from Phillip's whenever I visit Baltimore's Inner Harbor. But when it comes to cracking claws and pulling out the meat for dipping in butter, I love the snowcrabs.

-- Allen

[arwalden]

13. Do You Like Soft-Shell Crabs?

I don't know how people can eat them. Are they "gutted" first? Don't the leave their little telescopic eyes in place? I just couldn't eat anything that "looks back" at me before I'd take the first bite.

-- Allen

[soothsayer]

17. They're fantastic! I was scared of them for years, but now I can't get

enuff of 'em.

They do take out the guts, btw, and any scary parts. Breaded and fried, or tempura battered, yum! I take 'em off the bread if they're a sandwich cuz the soft shell crab itself is so lovely.

[arwalden]

19. Follow Up Question...

Okay, so they are gutted, and de-eyed... are the tendons still inside? Are they hard, rubbery and inedible? Or do you just crunch (gnaw) through them anyway?

-- Allen

[arwalden]

7. Are Crabs Related To Spiders? Or Insects?

I've heard that lobster and shrimp are cousins of cockroaches... but I never knew if it was true or just an urban legend.

-- Allen

[LynneSin]

12. They are all related because they are all Arthropods

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Arthropoda&contgroup=Animals

This is the classification for animals with exoskeltons

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. I definitely can't look at a whole lobster and then eat it for that

very reason...my only phobia in the world is cockroaches...gotta be half shell or lobster tail for me

[Misunderestimator]

26. Eewwww.... Cockroaches on the Half-Shell?

You've got some strange taste, woman! :evilgrin:

[Richardo]

11. Texans and Cajuns are looking for...

Soft shell crabs to go with their dirty rice :9

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Crab Cakes

or Deviled Crab...I just can't get into crab legs.

[Misunderestimator]

27. Me too.... I LOVE crab cakes, but don't care for pulling the meat

out of the legs. I also like crabmeat in sushi rolls.

[Beware the Beast Man]

29. MMMM...California Rolls...

Or as I call it "Sushi for Dummies." I'm just not brave enough to graduate to the real stuff yet.

[TX-RAT]

15. My weakness

The only crab i didn't like was fried soft shell. Looked and felt like a Tarantula.Every fall we go to Destin Fla, where i gorge myself on crab and Corona for a week.

Have a t-shirt that says Life Liberty and the pursuit of Crab.
Joe's Crab Shack.

[jobycom]

20. Live, happy, free crabs safe from human consumption!

Sorry, I'm vegetarian, and anyway, I'm allergic to crabs from back when I ate meat. We grew up on the nasty little buggers because they were so easy to catch. They are pure poverty food where I'm from. I get sick just thinking about them.

Sorry to interrupt. Back to the serious comments. :-)

[quisp]

21. Nothing better than...

piles of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, sweet corn, tomato and cucumber salad and pitchers of ice cold beer on a hot summer night.

[supernova]

22. A:) is Blue Crabs which are also wicked good soft shell

Blue crabs are great hard shell or soft shell right after they've molted. Yum!

[blindpig]

23. blue crabs rule!

Had my 1st batch last week, Ecstasy! Then I made crab soup Baltimore style with the remainder, praise the gods.
Who here likes to suck the mustard?

[demnan]

28. Yep Me!

I've been cracking and eating these little fellers since I was 4-5 years old. I don't intend to stop now.

[flamingyouth]

24. Mmmmm - Dungeness crab

YUM

[Snow]

25. Aren't Dungeness and King crabs the same creature?

I have a vague memory of hearing, when I lived in Seattle, that some daggone marketer decided "Dungeness" just wouldn't sell, so started labelling them "King" instead.

[Rowdyboy]

30. Soft-shell

fried or broiled!

[Bonhomme Richard]

31. Fresh caught Blue Claws done up in a

marinara sauce. Yummmmmmm