Scott ... here on the 'right' coast wink it is all about "Jersey" or "Maryland" blue claw crabs ...
http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/IMAGES/Maryland/MarylandBlueCrabPhotoW.jpg

I cannot share your enthusiasm for the Dungeness crab ... a number of years ago I spent a couple of weeks in San Francisco and of course visited Fisherman's Wharf a number of times ... before too long the aroma (odor?) of the Dungeness crabs cooking in huge pots actually turned me off crabs for a while ...

NOTHING like the blue claw ... yummmmm ...
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t. cool