All because of my son…I now have blood on my hands. I didn’t want to do it but my son insisted. He used his puppy-dog look and even throw in very polite ‘Please’ to get me to do it.
I had no other choice. There were two of them and though, lame, there was no reason at all to end their lives. None. Except that my son wanted them both dead.
Sigh.
What is a mother to do? When she has a child looking pleadingly at her and begging her to do it, she has no other choice.
The duo knew from the start that they are doomed. When they saw my knife and pick, they knew their fate were sealed. They glared at me unblinkingly. They scrambled and tried to run but they were tied up. We can’t risk them running away so their limbs are bound. But still, they struggled against their bonds and tried to escape but there is no way out for them.
It is not easy to kill them. I was told to use a metal pick and drive it through their ‘hearts’ much like the way the movies show how vampires were killed except for the metal pick part. I did that and they didn’t die. In fact they struggled even more and gave me killer looks.
Just look at how one of them glared at me accusingly….
Waiting for his impending doom...
If looks could kill, I would have been double-killed by now!
Finally, I left it to TH to do the dirty work. It is just not my style to..err..kill something twice. I think it’s a waste of energy.
Two of them waiting for their impending doom
By the way, did anyone ever noticed that crabs like these two do not bleed? After poking them with the pick and still not killing them, I didn’t see any blood on the pick. Hmmm…maybe they are vampires….
Oh well, I did not do the actual killing la. I am just too squemish. Yeurrggghhhh….very gelifying (no actual translation to this word by I guess squemish-inducing also suffice) ler. TH had the honour of killing those two and putting them in the hot pot.
They come out with a nice wonderful tan:
Dead crab but damn delicious!
Needless to ask. We ate the dead bodies after killing them. All evidence consumed and cleaned out. What’s left was only shells.
Oh, by the way, we bought these two from the Batu Lanchang market at RM12 each. Darn expensive if you ask me! There was no roe too.
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The easiest and the most humane way of killing a crab is to put them in the freezer.
The cold will send them off to sleep and then they will die peacefully without any struggle and what most people believe a painless and humane death.
So the next time you want to kill a crab, just put them in the freezer for about half an hour. Don’t forget to remove them before they become frozen.
And when you buy crab don’t forget to ask where they come from. If they are from India don’t buy them.
The Ganges river is full of crabs. Firewood is becoming very expensive hence the Hindu population are choosing to just float a lot of dead bodies down the river and the crabs & crocodiles are getting all these free food.
The easiest way to kill a crab , put a chopstick through their ‘ass’ … seriously… they’ll just die… and it’s fast too… there’ll be a little ‘flap’ that you need to push out of the way first ar..
Hmmm… putting a chopstick through their @$$. Looks like someone has been following the news of late too often eh, Jason?
Just put them into hot water. Period.
I love animals… they’re cute and tasty!
BC?
i love eating crabs but i cant eat them if i’ve seen them alive before!
fie the elfs last blog post..I swear, you swear, we all swear!
In Australia you cannot buy crabs with roe (female). he crab catchers are must release all female crabs. The females have a triangular shaped flap on the under side. The males have a more rounded shape flap.
Anyone caught selling female crabs face a fine. This practise ensures that there a healthy crab population for future seasons.
The same applies to lobsters. Lobsters carry their eggs externally under their belly. If you can see roe under their belly you must release that creature.
Unfortunately amongst Asians they see the roe and say “wah that is the best part, nice to eat” and keep the creature.
Engineer: I heard about the freezer killing…well, tried it b4 and didn’t work. Eh, the roe IS the best part to eat!
Never mind lar, since nobody will eat Indian crabs, the crab population will still be around for years to come…
Jason: Euuu..u make it sound so….anyway, that’s what I did lar although I was told it was the ‘heart’ and not the ass….
Blurchu?: put them in hot water alive? Yeuurrrgghhhh…no way.
fie the elf: Oh, that means you don’t cook lar? Never mind, can always do like what I do, ask someone to kill it for you…