Eating Hard Crabs
Eating hard crabs is a Chesapeake Bay thing.Several warnings connected with hard crabs.1) If you don't know how to do it, it's a lot of work for very little food. You'd do better to get a crab cake where someone else has done the work. Or at least have some backup food while you are learning. Also, don't try to get the meat out of the crab legs (except the claws) like you do with lobster. The legs are too small and it's too much work.2) Don't rub your eyes when you are eating hard crabs. You will get Old Bay seasoning in them which really smarts. Transferrring Old Bay from the outside of the crabs to the crab meat and your mouth is a required (and inescapable) part of the experience. But while it is good to eat, it's not good for your eyes.3) Hard crabs have become expensive - the last price I was quoted (Aug 04) was $32/dozen.4) The menu pictured is from the Drift Inn which is the...
