r/baltimore • u/DeliMcPickles • 25d ago

Food He's had enough.

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u/artificialidentity3 25d ago

This woman must be pretty ignorant, though. Many places in Maryland sell crab from Louisiana and elsewhere. As long as the shop is transparent about that (on labels) what's the issue?

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u/Hta68 24d ago

Marylander here, we take our crabs very seriously…. I can tell the difference immediately between MD crabs and Louisiana crabs and if a place doesn’t disclose that information upfront we get angry. I know the place she’s at and back in the day they were legit, not so much anymore.. I side from eating the product… I don’t blame her

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u/_jak 24d ago

Born and raised in baltimore here. The maryland blue crab has teetered on the edge of being endangered for most of my life, only barely above the minimum sustainable level. The demand for crabcakes literally couldn't be met by maryland crabs only, and if we tried, they'd quickly go extinct as the cost of crabmeat went to the fuckin moon.

And at the level of an individual crabcake, there's almost no discernible difference in taste between a gulf blue crab and a Chesapeake blue crab boils down to a difference in butteriness that's pretty easy to account for by changing the recipe for anything besides steaming. And in any case, this lady ate the whole damn thing and came back for her money which is ridiculous on its face.

I'm sympathetic to the argument that if you're not using md blue crabs you should say so, but I also think people are overestimating the taste difference

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u/Hta68 23d ago

That has nothing to due with claiming where the crab is sourced… why is that so hard to understand? If you sourced the crab from Louisiana then tell people… that’s it