Back when my wife Caron and I were engaged, she volunteered some startling information about herself: She makes her seafood salad with fake crab. "You need the imitation crab meat to make a good seafood salad," she told me. "Crab cakes, crab balls, seafood salad, and a 7 Up cake," he answered, restarting song to the beginning. "That's crab meat," …