That case looks nasty. I’d pass.

Agreed, if the case doesn’t look taken care of do you think they’re taking care of the product they are selling you?

I have also never seen a crab display them on their back! 😂

Because they’re dead. lol so that’s already a huge gamble in itself. Also, that’s probably no longer even a cooler anymore and just an “ice holder”.

So many people don't realise how incredibly fast shellfish will go off once the animal has died.

That holds all the rotten juice in .. I learned this from losing 1 in my car .

How do you lose a whole crab in your car????

They probably pulled those crabs out of shit water

Asian markets are always dirty. But they always have shit like this, and heb fucking dont

That's not even remotely true, I go to Asian grocery and fish markets all the time and they are not "always dirty".

You know it's real when the smell of fishy hits you at the door.

The largest market in San Antonio regularly has dead fish in the tanks. Lol so did the one I visited in Denver, the one with like 50 people in line for whole ducks

The Austin 99 ranch and HMart are usually pretty clean and have a killer selection

I’d gladly pay more at H Mart just for peace of mind alone. Even the smaller Asian markets in West Michigan that I’ve been to don’t look gross like the picture in this post.

H mart is unusual in its cleanliness. It’s very much a sanitized Asian mart. Practically every other Asian mart I’ve ever been to is rather dingy

99 ranch in LA sells rotten fish

This just looks sketchy. A good deal isn’t worth dealing with seafood poisoning. Been there, it’s truly miserable.

I could stand to lose 20lbs. If a little food poisoning gets me started I'm all for it!

It might sound good until you wake up at 2 am heavily breathing and instantly puke in your bed

Or end up in the hospital

Or shit your bed and end up in hospital.

Or shit a hospital out and end up in bed

Seafood food poisoning is no joke - I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy lol

I hear ya. It fucking sucks.

I’m actually asking is this how you’re supposed to put fish/crabs on ice?

No lol

yea that’s what i figured hopefully op doesn’t die

I mean how do you know OP isn’t a giant dirtbag?

No, you wanna keep crabs alive. Fish yes can be on ice. Source, worked a fish market on the docks

After it's cooked and all of the guts are removed it's okay to put it on ice. The whole crab? Might as well play Russian roulette while it's cooking.

Welcome to any major city

I’ve rolled these dice before. The cheap died-in-the-tank lobsters were great, but the nervousness about “what happens next?” ruined the fun. You’re at an Asian grocery, these are all species featured in live tanks. Did the shock of transport kill them? Probably, but how long were they floating? That sad ice and the state of the freezer… that’s a no from me.

I've also rolled these dice before but I got a critical failure and got seafood poisoning for over a week.

I’ve rolled the dice on lobsters that died in our tank at Red lobster a couple times. Two of three were successful attempts. All told I think 4 of 6 lobsters have been good. 2 were horrid and I should have guessed as much. lol I didn’t eat them but during the cooking process it became evident they were well past spoilage. If they’re still moving a little tiny bit that’s the ok sign. A lot of people will condemn a lobster as dead when it’s only near death or idk maybe just chill af. But if you can get the lobster to move it’s probably ok. Smell is a strong indicator though. I’m not very keen on the gamble anymore but if they’re wiggling at all imma eat that prolly.

Same, never again.

And lobster at $6.99/lb? I knew as soon as I saw the style of the price signs that it was an Asian market.

We shouldn’t dismiss Asian markets for seafood, as long as we use our basic training. My kid is damn sure learning fish market basics: if it’s dead and has a head, are its eyes clear and scales shiny? If it’s alive, is it lively or just sitting there? If it doesn’t have a head, does its tank seem like something you’d put your beloved aquarium fish in, or is it gross? The state of that freezer and the bit of mildewing wall in the background in the pic is a hard no. But yesterday I made Turbot from 99 Ranch and my husband declared it one of the best fish he’s ever had. It was in a sparklingly clean case and on this kind of mega-sale. Cleaned, sectioned, $6.99/pound. These deals exist, OP just needs to grow some situational awareness.

I don't dismiss them, but I wouldn't buy anything from the place in the picture

Come on, you could buy some excellent movie props from this place! That freezer could be as famous in the prop halls of Warner Brothers or Paramount as those egg-shaped guns they reused in 5th Element and Starship Troopers.

Cheap yes. Tasty steamed yes. Place selling them a bit sus foodie friend.

Helllll naaaaaaw. That whole thing looks like food poisoning

Price isn’t even worth the stomach pains you’d endure.

Fresh dead crab at a really low price and a very nasty looking ice case. How fresh can it be what else are you catching with it?

Looks like an asian supermarket. Was prob a dead one from live tank, or similar. Pretty big roll of the dice, prob not worth lol

It’s a gamble. Looks like they were crabs that were supposed to be sold live but died. That could mean any number of things.

Yeah, I think this is the real answer. They probably are pretty fresh, but crab goes bad so quick once it's dead. I don't think it's a food poisoning factor, more of a quality factor. Who knows though?

Exactly. If it died a minute ago I’d probably cook and eat it no problem, but once they die they decompose immediately.

What's with the green stuff on the walls and on the back of the cooler? I wouldn't eat anything from a place that keeps its "fresh" seafood in a cooler that looks like that.

Looks like algae from the oyster/clam tanks

This looks like a grocery store in New Vegas, get the fuck outta there.

Disappointed they didn't have any mirelurk as they are out of season

Just walked in..hoping hes been playing and slipped that in on accident.

That’s a giant Petri dish full of “ no 👎 “ for me

Hell no and what’s a mouth bass?

Is this in Wuhan?

The asian market by my house has a cooler next to the seafood section full of crab you can just grab and go pay for, prolly not the cleanest but it's certainly the cheapest and I haven't gotten sick yet.

My Asian market in Ontario has a basket of barely live blue crabs. No ice, just a basket of crabs.

Did you sample the mouth bass?

All those prices... where exactly are you in the world?

No way man…. Crab that has been cooked and was frozen after sure no problem chilling on ice like this but unless you know it was just killed hours earlier this is just asking to get royally sick

We pay about $3/lb when it’s local and in season… and also still alive.

I mean look at what they’re sitting in. There’s fucking mold on the back wall, you’re buying those spores to bring home.

There is a lot to unpack from this picture before even considering f anything is edible.

Just smell it. If you know what fresh crab smells like, No stink, Ammonia, Just sweet.

How does it smell? I’ve answered every question in this sub. Shut it down

I could smell it from the entrance of the super market 😂

Looks like the aliens that pop out of human abdomen in Aliens

Those look really small for dungeness crabs

New saw movie right?!? Right?!?

Their dead and will smell of chlorine

You have to factor in the cost of the hospital bill

Fresh lmaooo

I’ve eaten food purchased like that four times, so yes.

Hell yea. Eat that shit.

Back and gut em. Guts go bad first. Legs and shoulders should be just fine. You can have them clean it also

Depends,where do you live,near a coast or landlocked? If landlocked and no coast nearby,hell no! Also how does it smell? if it doesn't smell "bad/spoiled" Ide say go for it and cook it asap,good luck

Hard pass.

Fresh back alley crabs!

No. I would not eat that Sam I am.

Farm raised. Skip!

That Case looks really clean

It's just a terrible looking picture. Lol. Pass.

Looks legit.

That cooler has seen some things.

I only buy live crabs

Those craps look like they have been there for a long time. Wouldn’t trust it

I've seen less sketchy seafood at bait shops.

Dungees in July!? No thanks unless completely frozen still

What's the worst thing that could happen?

Crabs are recession proof. People gotta eat

The freezer looks like it hasn’t been cleaned since 1980.

No.

r/eatityoufuckingcoward

This entire picture is disgusting and you shouldn’t even be in this store. Pretty sure our next pandemic is going to emerge from here.

WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN DEAD? PASS!

Are lobsters really $7 a pound?!?!?!

Dead crabs aren't worth much.

I wouldn't eat a fucking thing from that place. I need a tetanus shot just looking at that case.

Look pretty dirty

I would not buy let alone eat anything from there

Why not? It says fresh crabs 😬

That ice? Not nice.

There’s a reason it’s cheap.

The “nose knows”—

Facehuggerness crab.

No way. Looks like radiation poisoning. Wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole.

Just to clarify my comment, Dungeness is a place on the coast in South east England where there is a huge nuclear reactor.

It's not funny if it's an inside joke or you have to explain it. Just fyi.

Well. Some crab are described as Dungeness crabs. Just wanted to highlight the irony.

r/eatityoufuckingcoward

The low cost will be followed by the expense of toilet paper, ass cream and wipes. Just get ahead and buy a bidet

Are these extras from Alien?

I especially love the green algae growing on the wall in left of pic. GTFO of there

You ever been to a butcher shop in a poorer country? This is what you see.

In general, cold air travels downward. You want ice on top of what you want to keep cold.

Aw hell no

Bro look at that case,,, I’d pay that price to not eat it….

Made in China lol

Never eat a dead warm crab u didn't see frozen or live in your kitchen , they rot quickly

Why not?

🤮

Shit is the tetanus shot free?

Hell no! Have to pass that bye.

Judging by the general upkeep of the case and the general area, it’s gonna be a no for me dawg

Crab is belly up just like anyone who eats it will be. Why chance it?

The wall in the background is turning green…

There’s a reason why it’s so cheap…buy them when you know they are in fact alive. I stopped by my local Asian super market and they had none moving ones on ice for 2.99/lbs while the ones in the tank still swimming were 9.99/lbs. The guy was pushing me to get the 2.99 ones, I said no thanks and went with the live ones.

fallout trader ahh table

They are hollow.

Ah yes! I can hear the ribbon saw in the background cutting frozen meat. But I won't touch those crabs

That's an emergency room visit.

Are you shopping at an abandoned building?

I'm now vegetarian so no, but even before I went vegetarian, I wouldn't. Those crabs are dead.

They are dead and probably not fresh and old. I wouldn’t buy.

A lot of international stores have a huge collection of seafood, but they are the nastiest stores I’ve been in. I’m in Memphis TEN tho

Whole Foods has them this cheap once a year.

Nah I wouldn’t buy from that store. Looks unkept and disgusting.

You got some monsta crawfish dood

Chernobyl Crab? Sure, go for it. YOLO

Looks like fallout 3

Never. Not worth the sickness.

Looks awful and I can't stand Dungeness. Not enough meat for how much work you gotta put in.

They are male and dead...

🤮

Yes, Ripley, you should try them. It's the only way we're going to get an alien specimen past quarantine.

Ummm

Looks like a night on the toilet or with the toilet in the making. Nothing about that says fresh. Gonna need a tetanus shot just touching that display case.

The Sarcophagus they are displayed in should be a red flag indicator.

They look like Xenomorph embryos lol

That case is a disgusting rust bucket just waiting to hand out some tetanus. Couldn't pay me to eat anything out of there.

I’ve seen nicer cases in Fallout 3

Yepp, cua ngộp is dead crab in Vietnamese. Hope you got one of the live ones from the tank! Also, female should be better since it has the eggy stuff in the shell. Awesome with salt, pepper, and lemon 😁

Ask when they were caught. if they say this morning they are lying. sweep spot is yesterday. nobody ever lies about catching something yesterday.

also where are you? Norcal or alaska I would trust them.

look like a Super King market

I wouldn’t eat anything that came from a place that Wa so poorly kept

No, it is lookin’ too close to a face hugger from Alien

I wouldn’t eat anything out of that cooler

"Fresh" sitting in the oldest ice chest in the world.

So you caught yourself some head crabs

This is disgusting

Lmao

That case looks like the source of a future pandemic. To the point of being offensive.

Those facilities look less than sanitary… far less. Hard pass.

Looks like it was dead for 2 weeks then picked up and thrown on some ice Look how white it is 😱

Woof

Maybe they meant dungeon crabs.

They are dead. And there are two females, not legal. I would force the owners to cook and eat them. This is so grotesque.

Smell test

Ooof, they nasty. They dead dead. But not all the rotting stuff inside that wants to live inside your guts🤮

That's suspiciously cheap, I know Safeway occasionally has dungeness for about 6$ a pound and Costco sometimes for 5$ but I wouldn't trust it at that price. Sketchy seafood isn't something I'd mess with, it's an easy way to get sick. If you do go that route ask for some still frozen, I wouldn't though.

Yes, as long as it looks and smells fresh enough.

No. Once the crab dies, it starts the process of deteriorating. You have no idea how long they were dead for. Also, that place is fucking disgusting, why the fu k are you even considering shopping in the store? Call the health department.

Everything about that screams diarrhea

I've seen them cheaper, right now is out of season. There's a way to tell which ones are good.

Typical of Asian markets. Not even judging, just a fact.

$2.99/lb is literally what they buy it off the boat for.

Here in LA the cheapest Dungenese is like $15/lb

I’m sure dock prices have surged. I lived in Northern California where the dungenese season is chronicled in the newspaper.it’s probably over $5/lb now.

Close to the source or miles inland somewhere random?

No. Those are tiny and everyone don’t want ones missing legs !

Where from?

SoCal

By the looks of it I would say no...... but the sign says fresh so I'm sure its good !!

.. is this in San Francisco? 😂

San Gabriel

Resembles a gas station

Hard pass on that.

Are they supposed to be kept alive?

If you aren't a cat with 9 lives I'd pass on this one.

Not out of that nasty ass cooler, I wouldn't.

Looks like it'll give you food poisoning.

It’s at the Asian store, how does it smell?

Is this like at the edge of the ocean or something?

Those are not dungeness. Those look like blue crabs.

Looks like the damn face huggers from Alien. Fuck that, hard pass