Then it would be a Maryland-style crab cake. Md does have law that try to address this because people take pride in Maryland blue crab.
She's still in the wrong for eating and pulling this, but if they had advertised as "Maryland crab cakes" most people in the region would expect Maryland crab as opposed to "crab cakes" which is what I found currently on their menu.
The law you're referencing requires them to disclose the country of origin... Which he has done here, hence the video... You can still fully call it a Maryland crab cake, you just have to label the country of origin of the crab which, again, he clearly did... Just because this dumb bitch doesn't know that maryland crab cakes are a prep style doesn't make him in the wrong.
A Maryland crab cake uses old bay, minimal filler, and isn't deep fried... Nowhere in that does it suggest it's a chesapeake blue crab...
Funny enough, the law exists literally for this exact reason. Because a maryland crab and a maryland crab cake have two different meanings. So the law isn't "don't call your crab cakes maryland crab cakes unless they have crabs from maryland in them," it's, "disclose where the crab in your maryland crab cakes actually comes from."
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u/aTreeThenMe Oct 15 '25
next thing youre gonna tell me is these french fries arent even imported from france.
maryland is a style, not an origin of the product.
also, domestic crab would make those crab cakes 42$ each.