The Stench of the Crabhouses

A crabber is someone who hunts, traps, gathers, and sells crabs.

“What Jane’s car filled with as we drove over the creek bridge was not the black wind of Chaos, but the stench of the crabhouses, steaming up from small mountains of red carapaces and other nonedible parts of the crab thrown out in the sun by the pickers. It is a smell that grabs you by the nose—I’ve seen many a visitor retch while crossing the creek in summer—but like many another thing, it can be lived with: most of the natives aren’t even aware of it, and I for one, have learned to relish it, to inhale it deeply and savor its every rank ingredient in my nostrils."

John Barth, The Floating Opera (1956).