Tuana Phillips, a staffer with the Chesapeake Research Consortium, holds an adult blue crab during a trip to Smith Island, Md. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
I’ve also lived on the Chesapeake bay for 71 years.The tail about a man eating crab shells, I’m sorry but Evan I am not that gullible
I have lived around the Chesapeake bay all my life, now 69 yrs. Early on, I and all our generations since have eaten or caught blue crabs. Over the years i have seen all types of bites and experienced quite a few. On one occasion, one of the group, who had too much to drink decided to put his hand into a basket half full of crabs. Now without a sound he pulls his hand out with a half dozen crabs attached. We were laughing so hard we didn't realize how bloody his hand was. We tried to get the crabs off but we would have pulled the skin off trying. We started banging the crabs with a knife. A couple dropped off, finally, we put his hand down on the sand to get the rest off. As soon as the crabs realized they could get away, they just let go. Needless to say, later that day they all tasted great. A few years later I actually heard about a man from a tanker, not knowing how to pick nor eat a crab, ate 6 of the whole crab, nothing but some seasoning left on the table. Balto. Harbor was close, the man was a foreigner who came off a tanker docked at the harbor. It's not funny enough he ate the crabs but how difficult was it to discharge them.
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I’ve also lived on the Chesapeake bay for 71 years.The tail about a man eating crab shells, I’m sorry but Evan I am not that gullible
I have lived around the Chesapeake bay all my life, now 69 yrs. Early on, I and all our generations since have eaten or caught blue crabs. Over the years i have seen all types of bites and experienced quite a few. On one occasion, one of the group, who had too much to drink decided to put his hand into a basket half full of crabs. Now without a sound he pulls his hand out with a half dozen crabs attached. We were laughing so hard we didn't realize how bloody his hand was. We tried to get the crabs off but we would have pulled the skin off trying. We started banging the crabs with a knife. A couple dropped off, finally, we put his hand down on the sand to get the rest off. As soon as the crabs realized they could get away, they just let go. Needless to say, later that day they all tasted great. A few years later I actually heard about a man from a tanker, not knowing how to pick nor eat a crab, ate 6 of the whole crab, nothing but some seasoning left on the table. Balto. Harbor was close, the man was a foreigner who came off a tanker docked at the harbor. It's not funny enough he ate the crabs but how difficult was it to discharge them.
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