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On 2020-05-20 12:45 p.m., Ben Oliver wrote:
> On 2020-05-20 12:22:51, Dave Smith wrote:
>> Three of the four dinners I had in Tybee Island last year were crab. I
>> had soft shell crab twice and steamed crab and shrimp. Delicious.
>>

>
> If anyone ever comes the UK ever again, then I can heartily recommend a
> Cromer Crab. Quite well known here so best avoided in Cromer itself for
> tourist tax,


Tourist tax? Like the one in Niagara Falls?


>but surrounding villages do magnificent dressed crabs you
> just eat straight out of the shell.



The one I had in Georgia came on a platter with a pound of shrimp, some
potatoes and corn a mallet and no plates. They leave a roll of cheap
brown paper towel to serve as your plate and your napkins. It took
several yards of paper towel to make it through the meal.