![]() ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF NOISESTORM'S "CRAB RAVE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. The Blue Crab is a restaurant and oyster bar on the New Orleans Lakefront area. HOFSTAEDTER: Those without shellfish allergies get no time to rest because after the race is done, it's straight to the crab-picking contest.įor NPR News, I'm Emily Hofstaedter in Baltimore. Surhoff's crab is lucky.ī J SURHOFF: I will not eat him. The speediest crab by far belonged to former baseball player B.J. HOFSTAEDTER: This year there was no competition. HOFSTAEDTER: And finally, we're off to the races. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: So you want them to get to chase this. You got a squirt bottle behind you and a bobber, OK? So you can use the. HAHN: That's how you're going to get them to go. Damye pulls out a stick with about two feet of fishing line attached to an orange bobber at the end, like a marionette stick without the puppet. HOFSTAEDTER: The crabs do get a little bit of help from their human jockeys. HAHN: I like the little ones with the orange claws 'cause I think the girls are faster. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Big or small, any ideas? Mother-and-son duo Will and Damye Hahn bring out a steel barrel with crabs crawling around inside.ĭAMYE HAHN: Pick a crab for the race, only 9.99. HOFSTAEDTER: Jockeys gather to pick their racers. HOFSTAEDTER: So the hats are going to get bigger throughout the week?īLACKWELL: The hats are going to get bigger throughout the week. But it's, you know, it's derby appropriate. (Laughter) It's not as big as my Preakness hat or as the hat that I'm going to wear to Black-Eyed Susan Day. So it's a - you know, it's a cute, little accessory. JESSICA BLACKWELL: Oh, this is a fascinator. For the folks gathered in Baltimore's historic Lexington Market, crab derby is a perfect opportunity to turn up and turn out. ![]() It's part of several days' worth of festivities leading up to the Preakness Stakes, Baltimore's local race in the Triple Crown. ![]() Their family has been running the event for nearly 40 years. HOFSTAEDTER: Ninety-one-year-old Bill and his wife, Nancy, are local seafood royalty. Great happy hour oysters on the half shell. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: 1020. The track is basically a waist-high wooden slide with a nice, gentle slope, giving the crabs the gift of gravity, because, as Bill Devine points out, crabs aren't particularly good runners.īILL DEVINE: The things, they don't walk backwards and forwards. If you oysters, they have one of the best 'buck-a-shuck' happy hours in the city. Event starts on Saturday, 12 August 2023 and happening at The Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster. And we asked WYPR's Emily Hofstaedter to go and send us back a report.ĮMILY HOFSTAEDTER, BYLINE: That's the sound of the water going on the six-lane racetrack, making it slick for our 10-legged athletes. Oysters and Martinis in New Orleans Hosted By Joey Gremillion. You can call it a clash of the crustaceans, a sprint for the shellfish. Louisiana and New Orleans were the center of development for the commercial blue crab fishery, with fishermen bringing crabs to New Orleans to supply the. This weekend, Baltimore brought back a local contest ahead of the Preakness Stakes horse race. ![]()
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