Our good friend from MN, Drew, who is living just outside of Baltimore drove down and joined us.
We went to a place called The Quarterdeck in Arlington. Basically you sit down, order some beer (see pitcher in upper right hand corner) a few appetizers, and put in your crab order. The crabs come in small, medium, or large and you can order them by the half-dozen. The crabs take between 30-45 minutes, so you drink beer and eat appetizers while you wait. Then some guy carries them out on a huge tray, dumps them on your table and walks away. Which if you are actually a native, is no big deal. However, if you've never done this before it presents a small problem. The 3 of started whacking away with our mallets and trying to figure out where exactly the meat was and what was edible.
After we had each completely decimated a crab with little to no success, we were finally able to flag down our waitress and learn the trick to eating crab. Amazingly, they have a pull-tab. As my co-worker Nate claims, crab was invented by God specifically to be eaten by humans since they are the only food with a pull-tab. Basically you pull on this thing, and the crab open right up.
After that, mmmmm delicious!
