Is It Soup Yet?

she-crab soup

I talked to my fish-monger once about this, because the she-crab was supposed to taste better for making a seafood stew that we in the SF Bay Area call Cioppino. “So how do you tell the difference?,” I asked when I asked him to pick out some female crabs.

“Well, the important thing is that the He-Crab knows the difference.”

(Hat tip: Scissorhead Mr. C. Montgomery Burns)

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4 Responses to “Is It Soup Yet?”

  1. chefloveshiking: December 17th, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    On the east coast she crab soup is made with the eggs of a crab. In addition to regular crab soup. Not many people eat it now or know about it because it is not legal to keep crabs that have eggs.

  2. moeman: December 17th, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    Condensed to what?

  3. TheCunningRunt: December 17th, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    :)

  4. Capt. Bat Guano: December 18th, 2012 at 8:35 am

    I grew up on South Puget Sound and learned how to sex a crab (I heard that!) at a young age. On the bottom of a crab is a flap or plate, the males is slender and pointy while the females is wide and rounded at it’s tip.