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Pickle Bill's

7m 01s

What do crab legs and W.C. Fields have in common? It sounds like a bad joke, but the two are the unlikely inspiration for one of Northeast Ohio's favorite seafood shacks: Pickle Bills, about 30 miles east of Cleveland. On this edition of Beyond the Dish, ideastream's Lauren Wilson chose to get a bit 'out of character.'

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