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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2016-10-11 5:41 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On 2016-10-10 6:10 PM, wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:05:23 -0400, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2016-10-10 3:07 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>>>> In article >,
>>>>> says...
>>>>
>>>>>> Don't tell the people in Plymouth, England that - my god what
>>>>>> would they do with their crab pots!
>>>>>
>>>>> "The Dungeness crab (...) is a species of crab that inhabits
>>>>> eelgrass beds and water bottoms on the west coast of North
>>>>> America. (...) Its common name comes from the port of
>>>>> Dungeness, Washington."
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems clear from that that European crabs aren't called
>>>>> Dungeness crabs. Your Plymouthians are catching another type
>>>>> of crab.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oh no. Lucretia made some sort of allusion to it, so it must be
>>>> true... or else the ignorant putzes in Plymouth will be
>>>> frustrated.
>>>
>>> Don't you have a date with your friend Trump tonight ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> And to think that I just posted a response to a question about how
>> you must have realized by now that your were wrong and admit it.
>> Google is your friend. Use it to find a link to a site that agrees
>> with you that a species of crabs whose usual habitat is the Pacific
>> Northwest is commonly harvested in the UK.
>
> Hey Dave? Enough already. She tripped at most over a name used locally
> for the crabs sold (different species).
>

Pshaw. She did more than trip over a name used locally. Dungeness is a
long way from Plymouth and she had lots of opportunity to check it out.