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The seasoning is a mix of celery salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, paprika, and many others. Old Bay Seasoning is named after the Old Bay Line, a passenger ship line that plied the waters of the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, in the early 1900s. The origins of the company began in Wertheim, Germany, where Brunn started a wholesale spice and seasoning business selling to food industries, seeing an opportunity as spices were in especially short supply amidst hyperinflation in the aftermath of World War I. According to Brunn’s son, Gustav’s wife paid a large sum of money to a lawyer for him to be released, and as they had already applied for and received American visas, were able to escape with their two children to New York City, and later Baltimore, Maryland, where Brunn had family.
Old Bay is also now available in a standardized foodservice package but retains its distinctive yellow label. Putting Old Bay on crab legs. The seasoning is chiefly used to season crab and shrimp. It is also used in various clam chowder and oyster stew recipes. Potato chip manufacturer Utz created the original “Crab Chip” based on a similar mix of spices. Early in its history, the Subway sandwich shop used Old Bay when mixing their seafood and crab salad.
Many local Subway shops still have Old Bay for use on sandwiches. Old Bay is also occasionally used around the Chesapeake Bay region as an ingredient in Bloody Marys, and even in places as far south as The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. The History of Old Bay Seasoning”. What’s Really in Old Bay Seasoning? A bit of history on the German-born Baltimore man who invented Old Bay seasoning”. Nothing Gets Between Marylanders And Their Old Bay, Poll Finds”. They put Old Bay on everything in Maryland.
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