I moved to California from the DC area, and I just can't come to prefer Dungeness over Chesapeake Bay blue crabs. Texture and flavor-wise, they just seem to knock the Dungeness out of the ring.
>"You just drown them in Old Bay."
Yeah, and Old Bay paired with sweet blue crab meat is a divinely intended combination.
>"It takes longer to pick out the meat."
It's a fucking crustacean. You can take a little extra time.
Not to mention fried soft-shell blue crab.
I'm not gonna touch Alaskan King or Snow Crab cause that's a whole other tier. Summer just isn't the same without a brown paper tablecloth, a bushel of blue crab, and cold beer. It's iconic.
Explain if you prefer Dungeness.
>eating sea bugs
>>7326088
Lobster is GOAT
>>7326089
Holy fuck I miss Down East Maine. Stayed in a cabin with some family friends once. They fed us a fucking cooler of over a dozen lobster. Price? $100.
I can't imagine getting that price anywhere else.
>>7326068
Needs more seasoning.
>>7326098
Yeah I've heard it's pretty cheap there.
I have family who lives in Hawaii and we went out and set a trap for lobsters with a fishhead for bait. When we checked back about a weak later there were 3 or 4 in there. We took em back home and cooked them that night. Pretty much free lobster straight from the sea. It was delicious.
Fresh seafood is the best no matter what it is
>>7326068
Baltimorean reporting in. Blue crabs are a shit. I'll take dungeness crab legs any day. Literally every local news story is about the price of crabs during the summer.
>>7326208
Frequent Baltimore traveler reporting in, can confirm. Oysters are better, both raw and fried.
oregonfag reporting in, yeah blue might be better but i can get dungeness off the pier an hour away
honestly red rock crabs are tastier but theyre so damn small its actually a pain to get all then meat out, & i dont mind either blue or dungies
blue
Blue all the way!
>>7326124
OP here. I agree. I just thought it was an aesthetically pleasing photo.
soft shell blues are amazing but picking steamed blue crabs is just too much work for me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovalipes_ocellatus
better than either of those taste wise,but suck because so little meat
Blue crabs are 90% shell. You get a piece about the size of a toothpick out of a leg. You need a bushel just to get a mouthful. Dungeness are superior.
yknow i like crab or lobster now and then, but i just get sick of the taste after a short amount of time. I had a steak served with dungeness on top with some bernaise or hollendaise on it and it was great, because i get a few bites of crab and then get to enjoy a nice steak. i just can't eat a shit ton of that kind of seafood. crab/lobster cakes excluded, i'll eat that shit all day.
i chalk it up to being raised in the midwest.
>>7326873
>i chalk it up to being raised in the midwest.
Don't
If I could eat crab/lobster every day, I would, and I'm from the midwest
>>7326873
If the Mid Atlantic has blue crab feeds, y'all in the Midwest have walleye and perch fish fries.
>not fucking eating as much garlic roasted Dungeness crab as you can get your hands on
OP a shit.
>>7326804
>Blue crabs are 90% shell
>You need a bushel just to get a mouthful
Stop being poor and buy better crabs. I got some back in October that were so big and full I could only eat four of them before I had to stop.
>>7326911
i live in montana now, but there were places we could get some pretty tasty seafood, because i lived in a sorta suburb of chicago. this place specfically. http://www.chinnsfishery.com/dinner
to get really good food in montana is tough, you have to find the right places and they're usually expensive as shit, but they exist.
