I grew up in Maryland, and as part of a field trip in middle school I once went to a softshell crab processing house where we had the opportunity to watch the crabs be processed and try our hands at it ourselves. The faces are snipped off and the insides removed while the crab is still alive (well not for much longer). And damn are the ladies who do it super fast.

Also, I don't know how you all eat your crabs here, but in Maryland they are boiled whole with spices then served entire in a big pile on the table, so the first step of eating a blue crab is to rip open the shell and pull out the "lungs" and the intestines and other squiggly bits. Cleaning it yourself as you go is the way we do it, so I guess I have a hard time understanding anyone who eats crab on a regular basis having some sense of removal around the whole thing.

What, is getting the fish guys at the market to clean an already cooked crab for you par for the course around here? What a bunch of pansies.

I don't think saying that crabs are animals is any kind of a revelation.

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...and never forget, the crabs would be just as happy to eat YOU, if you happened to be paralyzed on the beach. They're not fussy about the source of their food, face or no face.

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