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. Later, in 1939, a Jewish-German immigrant named Gustav Brunn started the Baltimore Spice Company.
The spice is used to season crab, shrimp, and fish, but also as a topping for popcorn, salad, eggs, chicken, french fries, tater tots, corn on the cob, dips, baked potatoes, potato salad, potato chips, and toppings. Guacamole I use it to make my beer-battered vegan fish and vegan shrimp (recipes coming soon!).