On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 22:33:57 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 1/5/2021 8:11 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>>
>> I occasionally see Dungeness pre-cooked (from frozen) in the grocery
>> store seafood case.* I glanced at them once.* About $32 per pound for an
>> already cooked crab.* No thanks.* I'll just remember how nice they were
>> when I had some Dungeness at a restaurant.
>>
>> It's hard to find any west coast crab on this side of the country. Ditto
>> when I lived in land-locked west TN.* No Dungeness, King, or the smaller
>> generic called "Alaskan" crab (legs, claws).* They were shipped in.
>> Cold water crab from way up on the west coast are definitely better
>> tasting than any east coast crab.* Bigger, too.* YMMV. * I'm thinking
>> drawn butter and cracking crab legs and claws and dipping.* Not picking
>> little bits out of blue crab.
>>
>> Jill
>
>Dungeness crab is for a meal Blue crabs are for a social event. We
>used to catch them in the Delaware Bay early in the day. Bring them
>home to cook, invite a couple of close friends or family. Spread
>newspaper on the picnic table and start opening them. The adults of
>course, washed them down with cold beer.

In Devon in the UK they had Dungeness crabs and you could buy it in
the market already cooked, cleaned and served rather like meat loaf.
When they packed it in the pan they filled the centre with roe and
coloured meat and the white surrounding it. It looked attractive and
was a lovely, lazy way to eat it. You purchased it by the slice.