"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> >I am serving Maryland steamed crabs and crabcakes for dinner next week.
> > (I'm not cooking them; I'm having them delivered pre-cooked) I'm
> > going to a local liquor store to have someone suggest a good wine to go
> > with it. So now I have the crabs and wine covered. But that's it.
>
> A good wine with crabs is beer.
>
> >
> > Can someone suggest something (preferably simple) that would go well
> > with crabs? Maybe some kind of rice or couscous or something like that
> > and some veggies? I'm open to any ideas. I'm a bachelor, so the
> > easier the suggestions, the better.
>
> Corn on the cob and more beer.
>
> Go to a good Maryland crab house and you don't see any wine, just beer.
Go
> to any bar in Philly or Jersey that has crabs and they will be drinking
> beer. Go to any backyard crab boil and there will be beer.
>
>

Yepper. Steamed crabs are what change the equation. If they are done
right they will be caked with Old Bay and steamed in beer, and everyone
will be ripping into them with their bare hands. Beer.

If the OP was doing just crab cakes it migh be different, but steamed crabs
need beer. We never had any side dishes with them!