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On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:40:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:57:40 -0300, wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:52:57 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:29:31 -0300,
wrote:
> >>
> >>> I don't cook with it, but if it was the usual European Dungeness crab,
> >>> it could indeed be huge. I bought it as a souvenir and also a very
> >>> nice, well used copy of Ma Beeton.
> >>
> >>"European Dungeness crab" is an oxymoron. All they have there are
> >>those wimpy green and brown crabs.

> >
> > Not so.

>
> Yes, so. If they're getting dungeness crabs in England then they're
> being exported from the Pacific coast of North America. They don't
> live anywhere else.
>

You can beat her and Ophelia over the head with facts all day, but
they will still say "European Dungeness" crabs exist.


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