Whoever was the first man to eat a crab (or a lobster!), was probably very brave, or very hungry or both. If you’ve never seen one before in your life, the last thing you’d think of doing is eating one!

Crabs are so widely scattered all over the world, and have been known to man for such a long time, that we can never find out who was the first to eat crabs and when. Crab probably eaten by people who lived near the sea thousands of years ago. There are crabs off the coasts of Europe, North America, South America, India, Japan, and most of the Pacific Islands, Alaska, and so on.