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> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:21:43 -0700, sf > wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> >There is no such thing as a European Dungeness crab.
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> Don't tell the people in Plymouth, England that - my god what would
> they do with their crab pots!

They'd carry right on catching brown crabs (Cancer pagurus), an
entirely different species of crab which are NOT American west coast
Dungeness crabs.

Janet UK


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