St. Joseph’s Catholic School

Best education possible. Proud to say our kids attend St Joes.

I got crabs in E-​WA, and I want everyone else to get them, too.
St. Joseph’s Catholic School has several fundraisers throughout the year that involve food and *adult beverages* (to loosen up the wallet for raffle tickets and auctions, of course), but the Crab Feed (always in March) is a MUST. It doesn’t matter what your faith-​wise leanings are, you just need to like crab. I have been around the Seafood Festival block a time or two, and I know from crab feed. They are on their game, 100%. Here’s why:
For $ 30 (same price in 2010 and 2011), you get a starfish stamp on your wrist, 2 drink tokens in your hand, and a seat at the kids table. Once seated, you will be offered salad and spaghetti to go with the giant basket of bread that was already there, waiting for you. I pass, saving room for the reason I’m here in the first place: crab.
Then it begins… you have these cards, kind of like bidding paddles at Sotheby’s, except these say «CRAB» and you don’t have to sell your kidney to afford the merchandise. You hold up the card. Stealthily, the Bucket Brigade show up, legs and claws overflowing from their containers. Trays of butter (the real deal) and cocktail sauce (horseradishy!) whiz by and you snag a cup or two. You devour buckets of crustaceans, create mountains of shells, and just as the last leg is lifted from the bucket you hold up the card again, and VOILA, more crabby goodness.
Look out in the back parking lot and you’ll see the Foodservice of America semi truck parked out there.
THIS is what All You Can Eat Crab Feed means, people.
Good beer (that’s right, not just Bud Light and Corona, good microbrews plus Guinness. E-​WA is stepping up their game) and decent wine available, you get one drink for each of your tokens. Or, go big, buy a pitcher of IPA for $ 12 or a bottle of wine for $ 15.
And that’s why you’ll say to yourself, «I got crabs in E-​WA, and I loved it!»