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01-21-2013, 01:29 AM
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The original "Mastercock"
Male Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Denver, NC
Posts: 10,603
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why are crab legs so expensive?
I love them but damn I dont wanna go broke eating them
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01-21-2013, 01:36 AM
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CT's 2x Favorite Tiger
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Clemson, SC
Posts: 16,303
CockyCash: 1048000 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
I love them but eat them maybe once or twice a year. Every year my friends and I go to Myrtle Beach for Mustang Week and we eat at Benjamin's. Crab legs come on the buffet, and we put a hurting on plate after plate. I hate I don't get to eat them often, but the discipline of not splurging on them just makes it better when I do get to destroy a few plates.
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01-21-2013, 01:40 AM
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Grumpy Old Fart
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Sunshinny Florida
Posts: 15,679
CockyCash: 4751450 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Supply and demand.
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01-21-2013, 01:40 AM
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I'm Bad. I'm Nationwide!
Male Join Date: May 2005
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 23,354
CockyCash: 26000805  |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Because they're awesome.
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01-21-2013, 01:43 AM
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Male Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Wilmington, NC, America
Posts: 6,518
CockyCash: 200 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Depends on where you live. I get all different kinds of seafood here in Wilmington for cheap. It's awesome.
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01-21-2013, 01:43 AM
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Synthetica
Male Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Gamecock Nation
Posts: 2,455
CockyCash: 977700 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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Although Crabs (and Lobsters) are plentiful. Suppliers control them in order to keep the market profitable (or very profitable). It is amazing that this item is a luxury item (economically considered) when 75 years ago it probably had the same cache that we give to bologna today.
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01-21-2013, 01:46 AM
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The original "Mastercock"
Male Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Denver, NC
Posts: 10,603
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Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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01-21-2013, 01:56 AM
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Synthetica
Male Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Gamecock Nation
Posts: 2,455
CockyCash: 977700 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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There is not a shortage in the sea. WE just catch a good amount that my be right about enough or just less than what buyer want so the buyer pays more for the items in th population controlled crab area.
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01-21-2013, 04:34 AM
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Fawlless
Male Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Castle Anthrax
Posts: 9,616
CockyCash: 17041681 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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I am going there in june. Looking forward to it.
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01-21-2013, 04:36 AM
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Male Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Columbia, SC / North Kingstown, RI
Posts: 447
CockyCash: 500 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Always check Bi-Lo here in SC. in the summer they have crazy deals. This past summer they even had snow crab legs as low as 3.99 a pound. We were buying 4-6 pound bags for under $25, and they have whole live lobsters for 9.99 each, cheapest you will find here. It sucks though when I lived in Rhode Island you could get live lobsters every morning fresh caught off the docks for about 5-7 bucks a piece and at my favorite seafood restaurant they have something called the "Triple Culls" which are Three WHOLE lobsters they only have one claw each but tons of meat and you get the three lobsters with potatoes and two sides for $23 bucks. you cant beat that! but yeah always be on the look in the grocery store flyers!
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01-21-2013, 09:45 AM
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2nd Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Charlotte
Posts: 3,019
CockyCash: 6325 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
I think it comes to to the obvious supply and demand, but there's another important factor.
Crab legs are also seasonal which limits their supply and boats are only allowed to catch up to their quota (US).
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01-21-2013, 10:02 AM
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Male Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Ocean City, MD
Posts: 81
CockyCash: 775 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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01-21-2013, 10:21 AM
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Grumpy Old Fart
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Sunshinny Florida
Posts: 15,679
CockyCash: 4751450 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Lobster used to be prison food. Today there is a glut that has caused many lobster men to stop putting out their traps. I eat here on odd occasion. They have been sending me e-mails lately with big discounts: http://www.bostonlobsterfeast.com/RestaurantIndex.cfm
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01-21-2013, 10:21 AM
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Male Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: California
Posts: 5,282
CockyCash: 204217 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
I worked at a seafood buffet for a few summers. Most days we only allowed to eat the normal crap left out at the end of the night. Every once in a while we'd have a surplus of frozen legs and the owners would let us go to town on what seemed like limitless legs. I got really good at cracking and snacking with speed to out eat the other employees.
I smelled like a day old clam after every shift. My roommates made me take off my work clothes outside.
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01-21-2013, 11:49 AM
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1st Team All-American
Male Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Kingsland, Ga.
Posts: 10,470
CockyCash: 200 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
You ever watch deadliest catch? That's why.
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01-21-2013, 11:52 AM
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Banned
Male Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: nm
Posts: 501
CockyCash: 200 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Expensive? Crabs are free.
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01-21-2013, 02:31 PM
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Bowl MVP
Male Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: in da sky
Posts: 2,259
CockyCash: 200 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
blue crabs are free
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01-21-2013, 02:44 PM
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ONE NINE 3
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 22,805
CockyCash: 344470 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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Although, I HIGHLY doubt anyone here is buying Alaskan crab. |
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01-21-2013, 02:44 PM
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ONE NINE 3
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 22,805
CockyCash: 344470 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
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Not true, it depends if you had to pay for the dance or by the hour. Crabs could be EXTREMELY expensive. |
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01-21-2013, 02:47 PM
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Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Murrells Inlet
Posts: 3,990
CockyCash: 1144261 |
Re: why are crab legs so expensive?
Because they got all them teeth but no toof brush
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