From the official state bird, the Baltimore Oriole, to the official state dessert, the Smith Island Cake, Maryland has just about every state symbol covered. But that’s not enough for some lawmakers who — for the second year in a row — are trying to add one more “official” to the pile: a state sandwich.
A proposal to make the soft-shell crab sandwich the state’s official sandwich passed in the Senate but went stale in the House during the 2013 session. However, advocates have put it back on the menu — it’s being debated again this year in both chambers.
A soft-shell crab is simply a crab which has molted its shell, thus making it soft. The first full moon in May traditionally marks the beginning of the season for the delicacy, which is fried whole and stuck between two pieces of bread — complete with the legs sticking out the sides.
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So glad this is more important than Jobs and the economy!
ReplyDeleteI wish the Annapolis idiots would realize their constituents needs are
ReplyDeletemuch more important than state appointed foods. Who can afford to buy the state foods after we are taxed to death, by our legistators, who gets paid to screw the peons.
9:36 Anything to make you ignore what's NOT getting accomplished. Arguing over seafood sandwiches. With such an emphasis placed on Christianity, one would wonder why a shellfish would appear as an official food? Leviticus places it right there with being homosexual. Selective religious robots.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the State drink of Maryland?
ReplyDelete10:43 Anything with codeine in it!
ReplyDeleteNatural Light is the drink of the lower eastern shore.
ReplyDelete10:43 The Democrats voted for cool aid.
ReplyDeletemaybe they ought to invent a transgenderbathroom sandwich! That seems more befitting for those buffoons in Annapolis!
ReplyDeleteSo let's have Transgenders running and chasing little girls while we eat Government Issued "State Sandwich" and LOOSING JOBS LEFT AND RIGHT. IT REALLY SHOWS WHERE THE PRIORITIES OF THIS CROOKED DEMOC-RATS ARE, DOESN'T IT?
ReplyDeleteI'm not an authority on transgender folks, but would think that a male that wants to be a female is more interested in men that girls. What about the other side of the coin? Women that want to be men could be using the men's room.
ReplyDelete5:21 What if a man gets caught by Police peeking in Ladies Bathroom? "Uhm, Officer, you gotta let me go, cuz Im a Transgender and I feel like girl right now". So. what do you say now? Do understand the complexity of this whole issue?
ReplyDeleteIt would depend on if he has a 5 o'clock shadow versus make-up, a dress and shriveled up man parts from taking hormone injections to grow a set of tat as. Do you really think that every transgender person is looking for a child to abuse? Statistically, it is more likely that a child molester is a family member or close friend of the family. Do a google search.
ReplyDeleteThanks Wiki
ReplyDeleteMost sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of the child, most often brothers, fathers, uncles or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances, such as "friends" of the family, babysitters, or neighbors; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases.
If 10% are strangers, what is the percentage of transgender persons in MD or on the Eastern Shore? I know that higher math and statistics are beyond the comprehension of most of you but if 10% of the entire population is could be a potential child predator and an estimated 3.5% of adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay,or bisexual and an estimated 0.3% of adults are transgender, who do you think is most likely to abuse your child? 0.3% of the entire population of the united states or that drunk relative that has been divorced multiple times and has a court order to preventing him from contacting his ex and children?
Don't let the fact that one of your beloved musicians, Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin when she was 13 and had 2 children with her have any impact on your belief that the gays and transgender are coming for your children.
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