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DCRunningDiva
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 Posted: 02/12/05 - 08:03 Post subject: Speaking of crab cakes
(thanks for speaking of them andydp!) 
I just saw on the news that fresh crab meat may be hard to come by this year. The crabbing industry in the Baltimore area is really taking a hard hit this year due to not being able to farm out the work to Hispanics with B-4 (?) Visa's. Apparently they hire labor every year through some program that has "closed it's doors early" this year and the crabbing industry has lost a few thousand workers.
There is a job fair in the area today so hopefully they will get some employees or this is going to be a very expensive crab eating year! 
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 19:55 Post subject:
My father in law has a crabbing license for the Delaware River. We get all the free crab meat we can handle.
Right now there's about 5 lbs of crabmeat in my freezer.
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 19:57 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| DCRunningDiva wrote: | | I just saw on the news that fresh crab meat may be hard to come by this year. |
Eating them once was enough for me.
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 20:10 Post subject:
I could use a job.
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 20:30 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| gretriever wrote: |
Eating them once was enough for me. |
But iffin somone gets the meat out and dips it in the butter and feeds it to ya it's sooo good. 
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 20:33 Post subject:
A fubby crab story:
I remember going crabbing with my wife and in-laws. The wimmins were wearing sandals. Made for quite a scene when one of the crabs got loose in the boat.
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 21:02 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
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But iffin somone gets the meat out and dips it in the butter and feeds it to ya it's sooo good. |
Substitute "popcorn" for "meat", and then I'm interested. 
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Posted: 02/12/05 - 21:36 Post subject:
I had crab and lobster last night for dinner and it was finger-lickin good... 
We have plenty of crabs down here on our coast...Before time constraints came in, my Dad and I used to head out to the inlets on our Zodiac, toss our crab traps into 50-90 feet of water, leave it there for a few hours, and later haul up a nice catch of crustaceans. The dep. of Fisheries and Oceans in our area has imposed a size limit (carapace width) for recreational fisheries (don't know about commercial fishing). You need a licence to crab or sportfish in BC. Also males are the only ones to be kept (the females of the species that lives on our coast grows small-under legal size). So in a typical catch, we usually get anywhere from 3-6 legal sized ones (usually 1-2 lbs with an occasional 3 pounder) out of 20-25 in one trap...good enough for a nice dinner! That way we will always have a sustainable crab population in our waters..with the exception of poaching, I think it's quite a good deal.
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Posted: 02/13/05 - 08:14 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | My father in law has a crabbing license for the Delaware River. We get all the free crab meat we can handle.
Right now there's about 5 lbs of crabmeat in my freezer. |
Um....whatcha doin' Saturday night?
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Posted: 02/13/05 - 08:16 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| gretriever wrote: | | Substitute "popcorn" for "meat", and then I'm interested. |
Eating crabs is more about socializing than eating anyway. One piece of crab meat, 3 oz beer, another piece of crab meat, 3 more oz of beer. I mean, heck, it takes you so long to get the one piece of crab meat out that you have to reward yourself with the beer. Then, by the time you have finished a couple of crabs off you are half toasted and the crab meat won't taste so bad (for you).
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Posted: 02/13/05 - 13:19 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| DCRunningDiva wrote: |
Eating crabs is more about socializing than eating anyway. One piece of crab meat, 3 oz beer, another piece of crab meat, 3 more oz of beer. I mean, heck, it takes you so long to get the one piece of crab meat out that you have to reward yourself with the beer. Then, by the time you have finished a couple of crabs off you are half toasted and the crab meat won't taste so bad (for you).
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I didn't say it was bad. It was like lobster - they both taste like chicken to me. I'd rather have steak or chili.
But of course with a beer... wait. 6 ounces of beer puts you away? My child, you would never survive overnight in Wisconsin. 
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Posted: 02/13/05 - 13:51 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| gretriever wrote: | I didn't say it was bad. It was like lobster - they both taste like chicken to me. I'd rather have steak or chili.
But of course with a beer... wait. 6 ounces of beer puts you away? My child, you would never survive overnight in Wisconsin. |
They taste like chicken to you?! Maybe you're like me, and have never had the real thing.
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Posted: 02/13/05 - 21:51 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
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They taste like chicken to you?! Maybe you're like me, and have never had the real thing. |
Dunno about the crab cake. The lobster was at a oceanfront restaurant in Portland. I think they clubbed it on the dock and brought it in. That's about as real as it would get, I imagine.
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Posted: 02/13/05 - 23:11 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| gretriever wrote: | | Dunno about the crab cake. The lobster was at a oceanfront restaurant in Portland. I think they clubbed it on the dock and brought it in. That's about as real as it would get, I imagine. |
And it tasted like chicken? Hmmm... 
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Posted: 02/14/05 - 10:55 Post subject: Re: Speaking of crab cakes
| Laurie Ellen wrote: |
And it tasted like chicken? Hmmm... |
Maybe he has messed up taste buds from all those years of...well....just all those years!
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