Red Virginia crabs
My wife showed me an article from a local newspaper today about how Red Virginia crabs have recently been introduced to the folks in Virginia as an additional choice in their seafood menus. I’ve never been highly informed about crabs in the past, having grown up in New England, I’ve always been a lobster man. In fact I can say with complete honesty that I’ve never eaten a steamed blue crab in my life. My wife says that anything with a shell is too much work for her to bother with; she’ll eat it if its already been cooked and shelled, but she won’t cook it OR shell it herself.
Anyway, apparently Red Virginia crabs are caught in the ocean off of the shores of Virginia and are a lot larger than the blue crabs are. The newspaper article said that the Red Crabs are at least a full pound larger than the blue crabs! The blue crabs have been over-harvested and are becoming scarce, so the local restaurants are starting to offer Red Crabs, and the folks seem to love them!