Pass the butter.
Posted on 02/21/2024 10:52:09 AM PST by DallasBiff
Christmas Island red crabs are a delicious, easy-to-find seafood option on the island. But can you really eat them? Here’s everything you need to know.
There are two types of Christmas Island red crabs: the large deep-sea species and the smaller tropical species. The deep-sea species is higher in fat and cholesterol, while the tropical species is lower in fat and cholesterol. Both types of crab are safe to eat, but some people recommend avoiding the deep-sea species because it may contain more toxins.
Regardless of which type of crab you end up eating, make sure to be careful not to overindulge. A single Christmas Island red crab will only set you back around $4 US at most local restaurants, so it’s definitely worth giving them a try if you’re a fan of seafood!
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Pass the butter.
I’d rather have crab than lobster.
Everything is edible once.
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But for the color, they look like the land crabs that the Cubans were chasing around, in Florida. Probably pretty tasty.
I’d rather have lobster than crabs
I’d rather have crab than have crabs ...
Nah. Lobsters are sweet and insipid compared with crabs.
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Yes!
Goobays Grille & Raw Bar, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
Go to the Outer Banks of NC for the best crab cakes I've ever eaten.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a crab cake there -
but I’ve had bluefish right out of the surf and onto the grill.
“I’d rather have crabs and lobster”
“I’d rather have lobster than crabs”
I’ve worked around a number of first responder recoveries, diaster responses etc... over the years. Dead bodies, dead animals... all in areas around saltwater. Truthfully speaking - you might as well be eating a vulture.
Oy.
I’ve eaten crab all my life with no problem. But I don’t eat rotten things near the ocean or anywhere else.
Some Navy friends of mine were stationed at Gitmo when they decided to cook a coconut crab. They’re delicious, I hear.
I’d try it. When the blue land crabs were breeding in Florida, they’d be pretty think in places. I remember a little old Cuban lady that was trying to negotiate over and around some rocks to get to a big one. She had a stick with a nail through the end, and she’d hook the crabs, and drop them in a bucket. Some younger white chick saw her predicament, and took her stick. She wailed on that crab with it, and when the little old lady caught up to her she looked at the crab and said “Muy mal,” and took her stick back.
Same here. Of the crab species that I have eaten, Dungeness is my favorite, but there are lots of types I've never tried.
they look already cooked.
is that due to the whole area being repeatedly nuked during the 50s?
They wouldn’t hesitate to eat you.
“I’ve eaten crab all my life with no problem. But I don’t eat rotten things near the ocean or anywhere else.”
Crabs do, it’s a scavenger. So is lobster, crawdads, shrimp. When you see their handiwork up close and personal, see them drop out of dead carcasses it is thought provoking. I know a lot of responders that don’t eat shellfish. If shellfish aren’t eating carcasses of anything dead, the other kinds are filtering out all kinds of crap from the water. That just doesn’t strike me as good eatin’
Can confirm crabs are downright methodical in eating a dead animal the bait for them is rotting fish or any other rotting protein. This is why you have to purge them in salt water for at least a few days those tanks in the seafood restaurants serve a purpose most people don’t think about or want too. That said pigs will gladly eat any mannor of relatively fresh carcass humans included and we all love bacon right. hogs eat everything they can get in their snouts dead or alive and they will eat fecal matter too have seen them absolutely go to town on cow paddies or chicken droppings too. It’s standard practice in Asia to keep the chicken coup above the hog pens same for the human outhouse...read that again and think yummy bacon. Chickens are filthy animals worse than hogs they are cannibals and scavengers of the highest order they are the direct descendents of the raptor dinos. If a chicken can get it’s beak on it it’s will eat it if hungry.
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