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jmcquown[_2_]

On 11/9/2018 9:37 PM, wrote:
> On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 6:54:17 PM UTC-6, Jinx the Minx wrote:
>>
>> I grew up eating canned salmon often (Friday fish), so I know. People talk
>> about soft shell crabs being edible, too, but no thanks. I tried them but
>> they werent for me.
>>
> Ok, now that's something I've never eaten, the shells of soft shell crabs.
> Interesting though.
>
By the time those crabs get to the restaurant they've moulted. They
shed the hard exoskeleton. They do still have a soft shell underneath.
It's not very palatable. IMHO.

Jill