Crabs or Lobster
 

This was inspired by the Maryland or Massachusetts thread/poll. Maryland is famous for it's crabs and Massachusetts for it's lobster. Which do you prefer.

BTW, I thought Alaska had the biggest crab, but according to my fact checking, that title goes to the Japanese spider crab, which looks like something from Doom. How come Godzilla never fought a giant crab?

I remember hearing up near Boston that in the early days, lobsters were so common it was the food chosen to be fed to laborers, who complained.

4 meters long; 100 years old.* Am SO very glad I'm not likely to ever be on the bottom of the ocean near Japan.

crabs are creepy. creepier than lobsters, even.

*and boy, what a boring way to live for 100 years.

Yes to both !!

Lobster, definitely. Crab's good, but lobster is food of the gods.

Rich, you're not supposed to be chawing down on either of these ... aren't both treyf?

The little blue crabs that Maryland turns out are too small, too much work.If I'm gonna work to crack open my dinner, I want to get like 3 ounces of meat from it. King crab, now you're talking.

I've had a case of the crabs before. I don't even want to think about how horrible it would be to have a case of the lobsters.

I'm hungry

Not if they accidentally fall on your plate.;)

I love both.

I prefer the flavour of lobster, but I've had it less. Crab can be a little watery.

I haven't yet managed to meet any seafood I don't like though. In fact just the other day I was drooling over the menu for Livebait, where a colleague was taking her mother for dinner.

I might just have to get some fish for lunch this week.

*shakes head* I very very occasionally have dressed crab, but I am not much for either, overall.

I like prawns. I like some types of fish. Other than that I am not a major seafood freak.

Okay, I'm the only one who doesn't like lobster. It's got an odd flavor to my palate... Crabs, otoh, are tasty.

No no, see, it's okay, because:

Those are gentle claws at the end of its three-meter arms.



Oh, and I don't eat food that I have to work for. Someone wants to pull the meat out for me and make it into a delightful bisque or oversized ravioli, then I might be game.

I must be really tough to get cute little outfits over those claws.;)

BTW, NPR did a program on lobsters a while back. Interspersed with the science was a "Gilbert and Sullivan" type mini-operetta about "Leroy the Uninterrupted", a canny lobster with advice on avoiding traps. I've been trying to find a standalone recording of it, but it was done for the program and does not appear anywhere in its entirety.

The science and the singing lobster make this a must listen.:thumb::hedfone:

I like all seafood except for urchin gonads and raw scallops... dungeness crabs would top my list though. Lobster is very good but not usually worth the price, same with king crabs. A bushel of blues and some beers is an excellent way to spend an afternoon...