I’m all for restaurant inspection disclosure, in a variety of ways — colors, letters, numbers, smiley faces — but a Clean Crab?

The Baltimore Sun reports that the Health Department would like to use the Clean Crab award, the image of a meticulous crab, hung perhaps at a restaurant’s threshold, to alert people to Baltimore’s most sanitary dining establishments.

Olivia Farrow, the city’s assistant commissioner for environmental health, said,

"The consumer should know. We just wanted to try and really empower consumers."

But a Clean Crab?

Joe Edwardsen, owner of Joe Squared Pizza and Bar on North Avenue, said,

"Crabs are nasty. Crabs are disgusting. You don’t see raw crab sushi out there, do you?"