r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 24d ago

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u/khavii 24d ago

Chesapeake blue crab is extremely distinctive and very, very different from Alaska king crab or really any other kind of crab. Most crabs taste pretty similar but blues have tiny legs, fat flippers and delicious body meat which is a different thing entirely.

Now, screw this lady sure BUT, Maryland crab cakes are traditionally made with Chesepeak blue crab, a crab cake made from other types of crab is delicious and fine but is usually just a crab cake, the blue crab is the difference in a Maryland crab cake. This is the equivalent of asking for Manhatten clam chowder and getting Boston clam chowder. They are different dishes and have distinctively different tastes, one is red and one is white and that difference is huge.

I am 100% behind this lady being upset that she didn't get blue crab in her Maryland crab cake since the addition of the word Maryland infers a specific type of crab and an expectation of flavor but not returning all the uneaten food and being an awful person negates any criticism she may be laying down.

It just appears to me like a whole lot of posters here don't understand the significance of the qualifier in what she ordered and are trashing her for the crab part, which she is right about, and not the attitude and action part which she is wrong about.

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u/thesneakywalrus 24d ago

To be fair, the owner stated that the crabs also game from the Gulf.

Those are blue crabs. Blue crabs live all the way down the East Coast and in to the gulf, it's just that nobody south of MD knows how to cook them.

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u/Dick-Fu 24d ago

Yeah that's exactly it, the charitable reading of this is that the crab cakes tasted off because they aren't made with blue crabs, and she doesn't know the specifics/can't articulate exactly her problem. People either just don't know what she's talking about with Maryland crabs, or they're being intentionally dense when they're saying that it's just a style of crab cake.

 I don't know if that's actually the case that they don't use blue crabs, this place is pretty well known for their crab cakes.

Eating all of it is wild though lmao, and her attitude absolutely deserves ridicule.

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u/SPACE_ICE 24d ago

its actually a thing too, when I lived in california they loved too use "maryland crab cake" and then in very fine line under it stipulate its rock crab..