are soft shell crabs made by pounding the shells with the meat tender hammer?!
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Crabs lose their shells much like a snake - they shed their old one and get a new one. Soft shell crabs have only had them a short while and it's still soft.
Soft-shell crab is a term for crabs which have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft. They are NOT born that way!
In the United States, the main species is the "blue crab", that appear in markets from April to September.
In Japan various species are used to make sushi such as maki-zushi or temaki-zushi; the Japanese blue crab or the shore swimming crab is typically used.
In Italy the soft-shell of the common Mediterranean crab is a delicacy typical of the Venetian lagoon.
No, it's a stage in their development, before the shell hardens.
Soft shell crabs are born that way. Just as you were born ridiculous.
No no no...
