Greetings,
We will have foreign guests this weekend and have decided to give them a
"Southern" supper. We have settled on Soft Shelled Crabs. We have a couple
of seafood stores that sometimes carry them but they only open on Fridays
and Saturdays so it would be a big gamble to hope that they would have some.
We are therefore considering the mail order route. There are a number of
suppliers in Maryland who will ship overnight but who is good and reliable.
Has anybody any experience of ordering such goodies and could give us some
recommendations please?
Doug.

"Doug Cutler" wrote in message Greetings,
We will have foreign guests this weekend and have decided to give them
a
"Southern" supper. We have settled on Soft Shelled Crabs. We have a
couple
of seafood stores that sometimes carry them but they only open on Fridays
and Saturdays so it would be a big gamble to hope that they would have
some.
We are therefore considering the mail order route. There are a number of
suppliers in Maryland who will ship overnight but who is good and
reliable.
Has anybody any experience of ordering such goodies and could give us
some
recommendations please?
Doug.

Try this place, Doug.

http://www.crabplace.com

Crisfield is known as "The Crab Capital of the World". Of course,
Crisfield gave itself the title! The Crab Place does a lot of 'Net
advertising but I have not ordered from them personally since local crabs
are easily available to me. It has been a bumper year for soft crabs.

Dora

In article , "limey"
wrote:

"Doug Cutler" wrote in message Greetings,
We will have foreign guests this weekend and have decided to give them
a
"Southern" supper. We have settled on Soft Shelled Crabs. We have a
couple
of seafood stores that sometimes carry them but they only open on Fridays
and Saturdays so it would be a big gamble to hope that they would have
some.
We are therefore considering the mail order route. There are a number of
suppliers in Maryland who will ship overnight but who is good and
reliable.
Has anybody any experience of ordering such goodies and could give us
some
recommendations please?
Doug.

Try this place, Doug.

http://www.crabplace.com

Crisfield is known as "The Crab Capital of the World". Of course,
Crisfield gave itself the title! The Crab Place does a lot of 'Net
advertising but I have not ordered from them personally since local crabs
are easily available to me. It has been a bumper year for soft crabs.

Dora



Absolutely. I have ordered a lot of times from The Crab Place and their
crabs are all wonderful, no matter what from I order them in, soft,
hard, cakes, or meat. Yum.

I love crabs, but tried soft shelled crabs once and didn't care for them. I
couldn't get past the whole "eating the shell" thing; to me it was like eating
a shrimp tail

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

I love crabs, but tried soft shelled crabs once and didn't care for them. I
couldn't get past the whole "eating the shell" thing; to me it was like eating
a shrimp tail

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

"The likelihood of one individual being correct increases in a direct
proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
James Mason from the movie "Heaven Can Wait".

"Mpoconnor7" wrote in message
I love crabs, but tried soft shelled crabs once and didn't care for them.
I
couldn't get past the whole "eating the shell" thing; to me it was like
eating
a shrimp tail

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

Once a crab has sloughed its shell it has then passed into the soft crab
stage. It's only a short time before the new shell starts to harden. Your
description of "shrimp tail" makes me think the crab had reached that stage.

Seafood restaurants often maintain their own "sloughing tanks", catching the
crabs just at the soft-shell point. After that, it's downhill all the way.

Dora

"Mpoconnor7" wrote in message
I love crabs, but tried soft shelled crabs once and didn't care for them.
I
couldn't get past the whole "eating the shell" thing; to me it was like
eating
a shrimp tail

Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

Once a crab has sloughed its shell it has then passed into the soft crab
stage. It's only a short time before the new shell starts to harden. Your
description of "shrimp tail" makes me think the crab had reached that stage.

Seafood restaurants often maintain their own "sloughing tanks", catching the
crabs just at the soft-shell point. After that, it's downhill all the way.

Dora