It's 21.50 a lb at the store. Buy it and steam it at home, dip it in garlic butter at home. Unless you're paying $200 at a fancy restaurant for king crab prepared in a fancy way there's no reason to get it eating out, especially at that price.
Except these are not from Stalin at all. The population in the Barents sea is tied to a 1960s era Ichthyology experiment, under the governments of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. There are persistent rumours of attempts under Stalin, but none were successful and a majority of stories can be dismissed as rooted in WW2 axis propaganda given that their origin time frame. Basically, Its Soviet Crabs, not Stalin's, as it post-dates his death and was under the purview of several administrations.
@@Adolf_Hitler_vs_Josep_Stalin I mean it’s kinda obvious? Painting your enemies as the destroyer of ecosystems can help you paint yourself as the protector of ecosystems.
Not the first time. There are many invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea from fish to urchins. They need to be overfished to save the local fauna and flora in Türkiye, Cyprus, Greece, and many other Mediterranean countries.
It destroyed our cod and saithe populations 😢 I my family used to have our freezers full of fish all year, as you could just go out there with a hobby boat and pull enough fish for the year on a couple of trips. Now, you need specialized equipment to fish crabs instead. And to be honest, I to be honest, cod is way tastier than crabs. And cod was wAaaay more affordable. We can't really get cheap locally gathered food anymore, as it's simply more profitable to freeze the crabs and send them around the world. 😢
Because the Norwegian government has decided to keep the crab population close to the border stable to help the local fishing industry. West of a certain point there is no quotas. So yeah, still invasive, but, you know, money.
Because people totally stop caring about the damage of invasive animals if there is a way to make money with them. Hasn't that been blatantly obvious over the last hundred years? Just look at New Zealand, one of the most fragile and 'best protected' ecosystems in the world, yet they don't hear anything about how the European-based agriculture has completely replaced the indigenous flora and fauna.
Fun fact! King crabs technically arent even crabs! Crabs have 4 pair of walking legs, and a pair of claws. King crabs have 3 pairs of walking legs and a pair of claws.
Like diamonds, they've cornered the market, thats the official standard price, despite it abundance and limitless supply, these greedy asshole!! that's a revenue they not gonna tamper with.
Invasive species of crabs vs. insatiable humans- two forces of nature that normally cause a lot of destruction, but maybe kind of cancel each other out here a little?
But why are these crabs so expensive? Trust me if its like $20 a crab, you won't have a crab problem in 6 months time. We'll eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner in Asia
If you ever get the opportunity to taste one of these, take it! And don’t listen to that Las Vegas rubbish about butter sauce. That’s disgusting. No, make your own thousand island dressing with Tabasco and boiled eggs, ideally the day before, and get some good baguette to go with it. White wine or bubbles as you prefer. Enjoy.
Im genuinely surprised that's not a more commonly use war tactic juat air dropping an invasive species in to a place near farms or something important😂
ah these guys. been there at north norway.. actually i have been at most northern sauna thats on the planet.. its was bad.. they had only 60c warmth and i literally did freeze
The norwegian govrement have made it illegal to fish these crabs without a lisence. This way only a few people supply the market and keep the prices sky high, when they should be dirt cheap. And that is the norwegian labour party 🤩
the audacity for one to stomp their large footwear down to cause their companions to fall, only to command them to arise once more must be astonishing. Edit: Why the hell did this comment get here? this was meant for a Big shoe lmfao meme video????
This crab is now spreading farther south, endangering more and more local wildlife, but the Norwegian fishermen continue to support their population by throwing the small ones and eggers back in.
@@abhabh6896 No, not at all. Those seaside towns have been living fine on the local species of fish. The crab are simply more lucrative. However, small changes in water temps will kill off those crab eggs and since the crab are destroying all the fish stocks, they will be left with nothing.
It destroyed our cod and saithe populations 😢 I my family used to have our freezers full of fish all year, as you could just go out there with a hobby boat and pull enough fish for the year on a couple of trips. Now, you need specialized equipment to fish crabs instead. And to be honest, I to be honest, cod is way tastier than crabs. And cod was wAaaay more affordable. We can't really get cheap locally gathered food anymore, as it's simply more profitable to freeze the crabs and send them around the world.
I mean………the upside is king crabs are significantly cheaper than what they would be had the Russians not did that. If they have to natural predators then let us be their predators since unlike some invasive species these are delicious.
It doesn't matter what the source is, just as long as it's a source. Trying to continuously control habitats is extremely costly and pointless because you simply can't stop nature after it begins. So what if the Red Crabs take out a few animals, just fish for the crabs instead. A source is a source, money needs to be made. We can eat pretty much anything. Why people care is beyond me
Oh your town wouldn’t have a living if not for the crabs? I DO NOT CARE I LITERALLY DO NOT THEY ARE WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT OVERALL (at least if I heard you correctly) SO GET RID OF THEM SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT I am sad your fishing town is in trouble but it’s not better than the environment nothing is
This is an unwanted species we don’t want in our seas, therefore we have yearly quota so we don’t eradicate them! Brilliant !😂😂😂 they are selling for $100 pr kg at my local store so I have a feeling that might be some of the reason 😂
well its hard for Russia to fight with countries that dont exist. Every country that ever invaded Russia was smaller than Russia....even in their greatest extent.
Nothing a little butter sauce can't fix
And a smidgen of lemon...
some old bay sprinkled over it
You guys just have to make a healthy food very very unhealthy
@@singlefather01thats why youre single, hating on flavor like that
Except it doesn't restore the ecosystem that has now been lost...
Ok, but why is king crab still 200$ a pound at a restaurant?
Import costs, supply and demand issue, willingness of the public to keep buying at that cost
It's 21.50 a lb at the store. Buy it and steam it at home, dip it in garlic butter at home. Unless you're paying $200 at a fancy restaurant for king crab prepared in a fancy way there's no reason to get it eating out, especially at that price.
Because we have to get it from Norway and other countries..and fuel for tanker isnt cheap
If you seriously need to ask this, you’re kinda dumb lol
Money 😂
Stalin heard "Red" crabs, and was like, "I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!"
You mean _we_ will take _our_ stock
Except these are not from Stalin at all. The population in the Barents sea is tied to a 1960s era Ichthyology experiment, under the governments of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. There are persistent rumours of attempts under Stalin, but none were successful and a majority of stories can be dismissed as rooted in WW2 axis propaganda given that their origin time frame.
Basically, Its Soviet Crabs, not Stalin's, as it post-dates his death and was under the purview of several administrations.
Why would it be "Axis Propaganda"?
What do nazis get from spreading lies about crabs 😂😂😂
yes, i know, the giant hogweed, this damn weed, THATS what we have from stalin
@@Adolf_Hitler_vs_Josep_Stalinshowing stalin as desperate for food, or as an environment terrorist
@@Adolf_Hitler_vs_Josep_Stalin I mean it’s kinda obvious? Painting your enemies as the destroyer of ecosystems can help you paint yourself as the protector of ecosystems.
they are biologists,dont know crap about politics or history😂
Communist red crabs be like 🦀 🫡
Based commie crabs
"It is _our_ ocean, comrades! Down with the burgeois-sea!"
😂😂
Meanwhile a Norway sailor: "Sir! We're being invaded! by Soviet Crabs!"
And russian spy whales (Hvaldimir the beluga)
The first time that overfishing might be a good idea lol
There are TONS of other examples of stuff like this everywhere and have been for a while.
Not the first time. There are many invasive species in the Mediterranean Sea from fish to urchins. They need to be overfished to save the local fauna and flora in Türkiye, Cyprus, Greece, and many other Mediterranean countries.
Amazonian Pleco, tilapia and carp are taking North America freshwaters tho.
@@sertankacar8594bro its turkey not turkiye
@@notjimpickens7928 they recently changed their name to türkiye and it got approved by the UN or something, I don't remember the details.
So Russia gave Norway crabs? I knew a girl like that in high school. Lol. (Not me, but lets just say lots of the football team was mad at her. Lol)
Yeah your daughter rocks 😈🤘
You made me choke on my drink lol
I mean of they didn't wrap themselves up, the one to blame the most is themselves.
It destroyed our cod and saithe populations 😢
I my family used to have our freezers full of fish all year, as you could just go out there with a hobby boat and pull enough fish for the year on a couple of trips.
Now, you need specialized equipment to fish crabs instead.
And to be honest, I to be honest, cod is way tastier than crabs.
And cod was wAaaay more affordable. We can't really get cheap locally gathered food anymore, as it's simply more profitable to freeze the crabs and send them around the world.
😢
I do feel you.
Move some pacific cod over to live with the crabs?
How did the crabs destroy the population? Aren't crabs bottom feeders and fish live in the middle/upper water column.
Boo hoo
Your COD population was destroyed due to overfishing. Crabs are bottom feeders.
If they are invasive why is he still throwing out the females?
Because the Norwegian government has decided to keep the crab population close to the border stable to help the local fishing industry. West of a certain point there is no quotas.
So yeah, still invasive, but, you know, money.
@@msuomtv people need to live from doing something. Many of those small traditional towns would have become barren without those crabs.
Because people totally stop caring about the damage of invasive animals if there is a way to make money with them. Hasn't that been blatantly obvious over the last hundred years?
Just look at New Zealand, one of the most fragile and 'best protected' ecosystems in the world, yet they don't hear anything about how the European-based agriculture has completely replaced the indigenous flora and fauna.
Even though they’re invasive people now depend on them for their livelihood, so they want them to be sustainable rather than wipe them out
So we have more crabs to eat weirdo. I’m trying to have me a crab dinner for myself and my future generations
Missed opportunity to say “The Good The Bad And The Crabby” 😂😂😂😂
"Did you know Stalin had a bunch of crabs..." 👀
It's Crabfest at Red Army.
You'll own nothing, eat crabs, and like it. Because it's free crab. It's a good deal.
I read this in Nick Mullens voice.
@@Usernamerz I know who that is. We are basically best friends.
There's also an issue with Pacific Pink Salmon being introduced and out competing Atlantic salmon
Yet prices are set artificially high sooo...
go catch them and you will sea
Fun fact! King crabs technically arent even crabs! Crabs have 4 pair of walking legs, and a pair of claws. King crabs have 3 pairs of walking legs and a pair of claws.
So another example of crustaceans evolving into a crab-like form
"did you know Stalin had crabs" in front of my Doctor
Crabs invading Norway with Hammers and Sickles.. 😂
“Waaay over here in Norway” means the utmost northeastern part of Norway that wraps above Sweden and Finland where barely any people live.
Did you know Stalin had crabs?
So basically Russian successfully invade Norway.
Stalin was studying the military applications of crabs lmao
let them invade my fridge
Wow, that's really damaging. This must be the worst thing that Stalin guy ever did
If they're too many, why are they expensive?
To cover the costs of catching and transporting them, plus there’s still a high demand for them
Stalin reserved Red Army
Comrade Crabov completed his 5 year plan excessively.
Make the king crab cheaper and there goes the invasion.
Like diamonds, they've cornered the market, thats the official standard price, despite it abundance and limitless supply, these greedy asshole!! that's a revenue they not gonna tamper with.
crabmunism achieved
Communist: Face the new invasion of Comrade Crab trained by KGB agents
King crab: Why do I smell mead and butter
Comrade Mr crabs
Anybody else go completely deaf when they notice the giant nutsack in the ocean where the crabs are supposed to be from......
Invasive species of crabs vs. insatiable humans- two forces of nature that normally cause a lot of destruction, but maybe kind of cancel each other out here a little?
Of course the crabs Stalin would use would be Red king crabs.
But why are these crabs so expensive? Trust me if its like $20 a crab, you won't have a crab problem in 6 months time. We'll eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner in Asia
I think it was Nikita Chruschtschow. Not Stalin
“My crab? No, your crab too comrade!”
Ok, if they're everywhere there why still Super Expensive?
If you ever get the opportunity to taste one of these, take it! And don’t listen to that Las Vegas rubbish about butter sauce. That’s disgusting.
No, make your own thousand island dressing with Tabasco and boiled eggs, ideally the day before, and get some good baguette to go with it. White wine or bubbles as you prefer.
Enjoy.
I suspected Stalin had crabs
I dont believe it. Why would Stalin share food?
I am curious, do crabs lay eggs?
Oh no, now people are gonna think that most Norwegians actually talk like that
Little known fact, Stalin changed the crab’s name in Russian to Red Comrade Crab!
Ecocosystems produced more food... hm... sounds like fixing a problem to me.
We have a similar problem with blue crab here, tasty but there are too much crabs
Atlantic blue crabs are invading the Mediterranean. I see Old Bay being big in Italy
mission failed successfully 😂
Im genuinely surprised that's not a more commonly use war tactic juat air dropping an invasive species in to a place near farms or something important😂
Fishermen always got to find something to complain about
I'm not surprised Stalin had crabs
If this was true why is he throwing back the small crabs to preserve their population?
“Want to hear the story of Stalin’s crabs?”
Garlic, ginger, some sprite & we have breakfast, lunch and dinner! 🥺🍴🦀
Oh no! They littered the sea floor with literal gold!
So a select few Norwegian fishermen are the only people on the planet, that have a legitimate reason to thank Stalin
ah these guys. been there at north norway.. actually i have been at most northern sauna thats on the planet.. its was bad.. they had only 60c warmth and i literally did freeze
The norwegian govrement have made it illegal to fish these crabs without a lisence. This way only a few people supply the market and keep the prices sky high, when they should be dirt cheap. And that is the norwegian labour party 🤩
Stalin didn’t do it. Though it is a scientist from the ussr that did it.
Could someone explain why we only see the king crab legs? Other crabs are served whole.
The legs will grow back, the crab will have to hitch a ride from a star fish if it wants to go surfing though.
@@dapper_gent huh? 🤔
the audacity for one to stomp their large footwear down to cause their companions to fall, only to command them to arise once more must be astonishing.
Edit: Why the hell did this comment get here? this was meant for a Big shoe lmfao meme video????
Gentlemen grab your butter sticks
Did you know my ex girlfriend had a bunch of crabs invade my groin?
This crab is now spreading farther south, endangering more and more local wildlife, but the Norwegian fishermen continue to support their population by throwing the small ones and eggers back in.
if they dont, those small sea side town, each one of them, will necome a ghost city. People need to live from something.
@@abhabh6896 No, not at all. Those seaside towns have been living fine on the local species of fish. The crab are simply more lucrative. However, small changes in water temps will kill off those crab eggs and since the crab are destroying all the fish stocks, they will be left with nothing.
Norway should send thank you letters to Russia.
It destroyed our cod and saithe populations 😢
I my family used to have our freezers full of fish all year, as you could just go out there with a hobby boat and pull enough fish for the year on a couple of trips.
Now, you need specialized equipment to fish crabs instead.
And to be honest, I to be honest, cod is way tastier than crabs.
And cod was wAaaay more affordable. We can't really get cheap locally gathered food anymore, as it's simply more profitable to freeze the crabs and send them around the world.
fun fact: King Crab’s are not actual crabs.
Im sorry but "early 1900s" sounds so wrong makes me instantly call bs on whatever is said after
A good idea from stalin? OK I'm shocked
How lucky is Norway
I mean………the upside is king crabs are significantly cheaper than what they would be had the Russians not did that. If they have to natural predators then let us be their predators since unlike some invasive species these are delicious.
Me and butter will have our participation to save the environment
It doesn't matter what the source is, just as long as it's a source. Trying to continuously control habitats is extremely costly and pointless because you simply can't stop nature after it begins.
So what if the Red Crabs take out a few animals, just fish for the crabs instead. A source is a source, money needs to be made. We can eat pretty much anything. Why people care is beyond me
A common Stalin W
Trying to fight Norwegians with seafood?
I wont complain if they will invade near oceans in my country 🤤
So do these crabs condemn stalin?
My girlfriend let her crabs invade me 😢
Thanks, Joseph stalin, for saving my Norwegian fishing village with japanese crabs. 💀 wtf is this timeline
🤣 Stalin's crabs.
If its an invasion, why not eat everything you catch?
King crabs are not crabs.
Love learning something new.
💙
Can't be that bad of an invasion if they're throwing back small ones to get bigger and breed. 😂
Someone get me some butter I got this
Hmm... Red king crabs are frickin yummy...
The Commy Crab
Wait, wait, wait, did this just imply Stalin did something good? Shocker
so stalin invaded them with help
What do you think is the largest most impact full change to the environment that humans are solely responsible for?
Stalins crabs 😂
At least it's a problem that can be eaten away
And they were delicious
Lost count of the amount of uneditable invasive species that's out there
The pacific?
Oh your town wouldn’t have a living if not for the crabs? I DO NOT CARE I LITERALLY DO NOT THEY ARE WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT OVERALL (at least if I heard you correctly) SO GET RID OF THEM SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT I am sad your fishing town is in trouble but it’s not better than the environment nothing is
Tell em to send me sum ill get em
This is an unwanted species we don’t want in our seas, therefore we have yearly quota so we don’t eradicate them! Brilliant !😂😂😂 they are selling for $100 pr kg at my local store so I have a feeling that might be some of the reason 😂
invade? There is no border to animals if they can live this is the planet they live in.anywhere they wanted they can do that.
Ty comrade Stalin
lets put king crab on texas and florida waterways
Thank you Stalin
The only time Russia invaded a smaller country in the 20th century
Definitely
the only way Stalin can get pass Finland to Norway
well its hard for Russia to fight with countries that dont exist. Every country that ever invaded Russia was smaller than Russia....even in their greatest extent.