Fresh blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay are the best.
Ummm... I had plenty of blue crabs whenever I visited Maryland and DC. They got smaller and smaller over the years, I swear. The meat is sweet, but it takes a lot of work because the crab is flat and bony.
Crab a too much like hard work for us, we are lazy eaters. I suppose we could hire someone to do it for us, that would be a real BTD.
King crab not counting, Dungeness crab is about the meatiest crab there is. There is no other crab, again not counting King crab, that there's even enough meat in the legs to bother to pick. With blue crabs, even the claws are often not worthwhile.
Of course, stone crab claws are also up there, and it is reflected in its price being even higher than that of Dungeness crab.
Now, these are the expensive food items worth spending money on.
PS. And while we are talking about food, lemme tell you about what I recently found.
Robbie and other posters are crazy about American Wagyu beef. Recently, we had a chance to have that, when my daughter bought some steak from Snake River Farms for a family dinner. Then, the thing left that I have not tried was Japanese Wagyu. I saw that at Costco for $99/lb. However, the packs were more than 2 lbs, and looking at all that fat my wife said "no way". And that was too much for me to sample, so I did not buy.
Then, a week or so ago, while checking out a new Asian grocery store in town, I saw that they had the same Japanese A5 beef. The marbling looked identical to the cut at Costco, and the price was $89/lb. And they had smaller packages of 1 lb. The cut was thinner at 1/2", instead of the 1" slab at Costco. So, I bought a pack.
It's still in the freezer. I guess I was not craving it enough to cook it as soon as I got home, but I will eat it soon.