{"id":451,"date":"2011-02-21T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smokinpetebbq.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:45:06","slug":"im-a-pickin-shes-a-grinnin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smokinpetebbq.com\/wordpress\/im-a-pickin-shes-a-grinnin\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Pickin&#8217; &#038; She&#8217;s a Grinnin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE Dungeness Crab!!!\u00a0 Volunteered at our Annual American Legion Post 190 Crab Feast last night.\u00a0 With the help of all the veterans, their spouses, and some of the Ripon High School ROTC squad we managed to put on another successful Crab Feast.\u00a0 Our Post has been putting on Dungeness Crab Feeds since 1946.\u00a0 We served over 450 guests.<\/p>\n<p>I always buy some of the crab to take home which I meticulously pick.\u00a0 The crab is cooked, cleaned, and cracked at the processing facility in Santa Rosa, CA.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a labor of love &#8230; 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