“The boys” decided to buy two dozen fresh blue points and spent an hour gouging themselves with knives opening the bastards. Two of them (the oysters, not the boys) contained what we eventually learned were “oyster crabs”. One was…unwell, but we named the other one George, put him in a bowl, and fed him a crumbled-up Cheeze-It. Alcohol ensued and I remember nothing else.
Surely there was something else we could have done with the two little fellas, but what?
Some people claim that crabs that have just molted, which I think they call “blue crabs,” are edible without shelling them first. You and I are from the same neck of the woods and I suggest you not eat anything with an exoskeleton, even if it has not yet hardened. In fact, you may wish to avoid any creature with more than four legs. I know I do. Kitchen invaders with four legs can be picked off with a BB gun or a cooperative dog. I think that the six-leg-plus crowd requires you to acquire a fennec. And neither group is worth eating.