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(1,583 posts)Croney
(4,661 posts)Yum.
Docreed2003
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(26,549 posts)lapfog_1
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A HERETIC I AM
(24,371 posts)I-10 exit 115, Breaux Bridge, LA. Mmmmm, Mmmmm GOOD!
Walk in a say Hello in French and they'll come right backatya! Very Cajun, great food. Excellent Boudin, red beans and rice, fried chicken, etc. etc.
And of course, crawfish.
Place looks a bit dumpy, but don't let that fool you.
lapfog_1
(29,209 posts)I try to make a pilgrimage to BonTon Cafe... yeah, a bit touristy, etc. But the Etouffee is wonderful.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Yum!
lapfog_1
(29,209 posts)well spiced!
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)absolutely incredible!
mitch96
(13,913 posts)Suck a little head pinch a little tail... all good!
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Floyd R. Turbo
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(26,549 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)We go to an annual music festival called the Crawfest. Eating crawfish figures prominently. Several years back my daughter rescued a live one, which we kept for years as a pet.
So now I cant eat them anymore because it just feels wrong.
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)This particular one lasted 3 once we got her home.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)in small rivers in PNW. Then come home and have a boil.
I never ate anything but the tail meat but others in the family ate most of the crawdad.
So I'm in the Hmm Hmm good category!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Kittycow
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(26,549 posts)Paladin
(28,266 posts)IphengeniaBlumgarten
(328 posts)Last edited Mon May 21, 2018, 08:07 PM - Edit history (1)
The best place I know for boiled crawfish: hawkscrawfish.com, located in the middle of nowhere, but not far from Rayne LA.
Paladin
(28,266 posts)But if it's in the vicinity of Rayne, I have no doubt they know how to handle crawdads.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)Pinch the tail and suck the head.
I prefer to pull the meat out without sucking the head.
Eating crayfish sounds so dirty.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)Paladin
(28,266 posts)The dirtiness factor is part of the fun.
Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)Paladin
(28,266 posts)....and started eating just as much lobster as I'd always wanted. The natives informed me that the green portions of the lobster I was leaving on my plate were prized dining on the Cape; I thought they might be fooling an old Texas boy, but I gave it a try---and they were right. Again, a significant portion of beer helps things along......
Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)Though everyone I know who enjoys lobster swears it is excellent.
I will eat fried chicken livers though.
Paladin
(28,266 posts)My Cape Cod dining advisors probably referred to it as "tomalley," but there was all that beer, and my memory isn't what it used to be in the best of circumstances......
Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)I take a lot of ribbing about it.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Solly Mack
(90,775 posts)When I was a kid, we'd hit the local mud-hole. Literally a hole that stayed dry for most of the year but filled with water during Spring and some of Summer. Wasn't deep, lots of rocks - and the biggest crayfish I've ever seen once the rains hit. And mind you, this was the city - a small undeveloped area with a even smaller woods. Long since gone to progress.
We didn't catch to eat, merely moved rocks to watch them.
I love watching the birds along the roads here, hitting the newly filled gullies, teeming with life after the rains. For a few weeks there will be crayfish and turtles and even fishes for the birds to feast upon.
DinahMoeHum
(21,795 posts)". . .you squeeze the tail and you suck the head. . ."
Crawfish !!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)brewens
(13,598 posts)fish, provided you caught the crawfish in the same water. That is not hard to do.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)dameatball
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(26,549 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)Croney
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(26,549 posts)Carolyn Jones!
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)"Pretty good, but not worth making a special trip to Louisiana for."
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,204 posts)I prefer shrimp.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Runningdawg
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(26,549 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)mother grabbin' incredible!!!! Also, nothing more fun than a crawfish boil! It's the only part of my cajun heritage i enjoy.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)In the clear water at the bottom of the well house was a small reservoir and in it were what looked like white crawfish. Has anyone else heard of that? This was in the mountains of VA.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Everyone is familiar with the Red Swamp crawfish typically harvested here in south Louisiana, but you might not know that a genetic mudbug mutation can also create beautiful blue specimens, and even more rare, solid white crawfish!
http://www.cajuncrawfish.com/blog/tag/white-crawfish/