Comments on: In Baltimore … eating crabs is a sensitive subject

By: typical

typical — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:51:54 +0000

What about those of us that choose not to eat crab at all?

Votes for vegetarians!!!!

Poor Zoidberg:(

By: Alisia Chapman

Alisia Chapman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:01:21 +0000

Ollie…. you brought up the best crab controversy ever… I’m with you. You touch it, you it eat it! Talk about a crab eating tabbooooooooo.

By: Ollie

Ollie — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:05:28 +0000

Knife only (Carvel Hall of course)
No Females
JoSpice #2 !
And NO Scale Hands ! You pick it up you eat it !

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:36:55 +0000

Mustard is good.
If you know how to properly eat a crab, the only tools you need are your hands and teeth.
No dipping.
Old bay is necessary.

By: Marissa Richardson

Marissa Richardson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:20:57 +0000

i like giving it one big wack and then i go at it with a fork.
WACK!

By: Jeffers Road Jim

Jeffers Road Jim — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:18:52 +0000

Marissa
I’m disappointed in you. A dinner knife is much better, because it is a multi-purpose tool.

The business end of the knife makes a great mallet and the “sharp” end is necessary to cut the backfin sections in half for easy pickin’.

As to the top 3 carry-out crab places, I was a little disappointed in Conrad’s last night, so Captain Trey’s moves up. I also forgot Ocean Pride, so my top 3 are:

Salty Dog
Captain Trey’s
Ocean Pride/Conrad’s (tie)

By: Marissa Richardson

Marissa Richardson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:56:01 +0000

even though i’m not a tourist, i use the mallet.
why?
i like smashing things

alisia~wet willy’s in edgewood! c’mon!

By: Alisia Chapman

Alisia Chapman — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:29:19 +0000

Lady Frances in Essex
Seafood stop in Fallston

Sorry the rest aren’t carry-out but…

Bill’s Terrace in Essex

Price’s Seafood in Havre de Grace

And there are $1.25 crabs at Sue ISland Dock Bar and Crabhouse on Tuesdays during the summer. Yum. The menu doesn’t have much and it’s kind of a dive, but crabs are cheap and good and it’s waterfront!

By: Jeffers Road Jim

Jeffers Road Jim — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:42:24 +0000

Bryan in Timonium,

Bravo! Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Now that Bryan has put this issue to rest definitively, what are everybody’s top 3 places for carry-out crabs?

I am always looking for new places to try steamed crabs (Maryland-style only, please. Joe’s Stone Crabs don’t belong in a b discussion).

Mine are:
1. Salty Dog
2. Conrad’s Crabs
3. Captain Trey’s

By: bryanintimonium

bryanintimonium — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:03:23 +0000

Native Baltimorean here -

First, mustard is good when the crabs are fresh and local. It’s part of the deal.

Second, claws last. Lots of work for not very good meat. The claws are best left to make crab soup. A good Baltimore crab house will serve red crab with a claw on the cup.

Third, mallets are for tourists. Period.

Fourth, Old Bay is for chips and cooking. Any decent crab house will have its own blend.

Fifth, Dipping? WTF. If you can’t get an adequate amount of spice on your hands then you should get crabs from somewhere else.

Sixth, To the cider vinegar dipper - WTF?

Finally - no females ever. Point of Order.