Ever feel duped? Or buy or get something, expecting one thing, only to find that it is not at all what you expected? I recently went to dinner with a friend, and she ordered the soft shell crab entree. Soft shell crabs are blue crabs that are harvested just before they molt, and are eaten as soon as the shell is molted, while the crab is still soft. The shell can begin to grow back within a day, so harvesting the crabs at just the right time is of the utmost importance. I tried soft shell crab once years ago, and was utterly disappointed that it was a small, not-so-soft-shell crab that was mostly inedible. I googled it, and sure enough, they are served fried or sautéed, often as a sandwich, and you eat the whole thing as its served to you, those little crunchy legs and all. It was too crunchy for me, but maybe the one I had just wasn’t as tender as it was supposed to be. I didn’t say anything to her when she ordered it, because I assumed she knew what it was that she was ordering. As it turns out, she didn’t realize that a soft shell crab was something entirely different from the crab meat we are familiar with that comes from crab legs or a can of crab (I’m not referring to the fake crab meat sticks that are made of fish and have no shell). So what she ordered did not quite meet her expectation. Sounds like a lot of times in life, when expectation and reality don’t meet. Sometimes it happens because we make assumptions. Sometimes its because we don’t ask the right questions and so don’t get the information we need. And maybe sometimes its just happenstance. Enjoy the sandwich (crunch crunch)!
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