I just love that the only part of this that is any different from the way we normally handle shell fish is that the mechanism for getting the crab out of the tank is less efficient than normal; and that’s the problem.
I mean, boiling it alive, waiting for the screams to stop and the clanks as it tries desperately to get out of the scalding hot water until it can’t move any more, when it will be taken out of the pot and you rip it apart and eat it with your bare hands; all that is fine; no worries.
But how dare the claw mechanism not be efficient?
(I mean, I eat meat… but I insist that my meat be dead before they start cooking it. That you be dead before you start getting eaten (or prepared to be eaten) is one of the few kindnesses that Nature gives; and I want this to be granted to that which is my food.)
