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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: nihil who wrote (20599)4/6/1999 9:42:00 AM
From: BlueCrab  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Mallets are what steam crab restaurants give their patrons,many of whom have not the skill to open their crabs with any implement more complex. Can you imagine giving a slip-joint pliers to a half-drunk patron? Now I'd love to see something like that on one of those "Home Video" shows, but I would not want to pay the owner's insurance bills.
I have seen people at crabslams bring nut-crackers and such; once I saw a guy who had a silver "crab pick",; looked like a pipe tool and probably was. But elegance don't count; I m'self used only teeth and claws on crabs. I used to catch a half-dozen or so at my little basement apartment on the Magothy River (just west of Annapolis) in the mornings and give 'em to my landlady at lunch; by suppertime she had a pot of she-crab soup ready, and would give me a couple quarts.
ON SOFTCRAB...
When I lived in B'more we would buy a half-dozen or so softcrab sandwiches and munch on them at Hop lacrosse games, washing them down with Black Jack we had "smuggled" in. I have some really fond memories of softcrab, but most of the good softies stayed real close to where they were caught; I never had a really good one (vis. the crab sandwiches)until I worked on the bay. We had (during the mid-70s) a wonderful and unique perspective on the crab situation.
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