High prices could leave crabmeat lovers feeling blue during Lent

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Crab cakes at Stroubes. [Collin Richie)

Fifty dollars a pound. That’s the current price of jumbo lump crabmeat in Louisiana, a nearly 100% increase and the starkest example of just how much more you might pay for this year’s beloved Lenten menu items.


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