Ingredient
Dip
Eleven of the kitchens we read put dip on the menu, on fourteen plates. Seven of them turn up under appetizer, and the shape it takes most often is the dip, on seven.
In the neighbourhood: Crab, the Maryland way
From 40 menus · dip is on 14 plates · How we read them
For the curious: the data views
Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
Dip, grilled or fried
Our reading of the menus has it grilled at four kitchens and fried at three, with one on both sides: Coins Pub & Restaurant.
grilled · 4
On both sides: Coins Pub & Restaurant.
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
How it's cooked
How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.
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The journey of dip
The same 14 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | grilled | 4 |
| How it comes | dip | 2 |
| Where on the menu | entree | 1 |
| Other | 21 other steps, added up | 24 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 2 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled | — | — | 4 |
| grilled | dip | — | 2 |
| grilled | dip | entree | 1 |
| grilled | dip | not stated | 1 |
| grilled | burger | — | 1 |
| grilled | burger | not stated | 1 |
| grilled | sandwich | — | 1 |
| grilled | sandwich | appetizer | 1 |
| fried | — | — | 3 |
| fried | dip | — | 2 |
| fried | dip | appetizer | 1 |
| fried | dip | entree | 1 |
| fried | small-plate | — | 1 |
| fried | small-plate | appetizer | 1 |
| baked | — | — | 1 |
| baked | dip | — | 1 |
| baked | dip | appetizer | 1 |
| fresh | — | — | 1 |
| fresh | dip | — | 1 |
| fresh | dip | appetizer | 1 |
| smoked | — | — | 1 |
| smoked | dip | — | 1 |
| smoked | dip | appetizer | 1 |
| stuffed | — | — | 1 |
| stuffed | dip | — | 1 |
| stuffed | dip | appetizer | 1 |
Travels with
What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.
Dishes
Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.
Our reading of the menu lists: patty, chip, pickle.
Our reading of the menu turns up Our Tartar Sauce, crabmeat and crabcake.
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Our reading of the menu turns up cracker, fruit and cod.
Pepperjack, bison and burger come up more here than elsewhere on our list.
Our reading of the menu lists jerk, sliced and jerk chicken.
Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
Our reading of the menu turns up steamed, soft crab and crab.
Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.
Our reading of the menu turns up roll, pickle and butter.
Where on the island
The 11 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Midtown | 2 | inland |
| Midtown | 2 | inland · oceanfront |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 4 | harbor |
| Day-trips ring | 2 | harbor · inland |