| jestmaty |
I went to a crawfish festival today that was sponsored by a group that my wife works with, and...
We were GIVEN!!! about 100lbs of leftover crawfish, potatoes, and corn that were going to be thrown away unless we took them.
We're talking about a 120 qt cooler full to the top of fresh boiled crawfish and I've been eating, peeling, freezing, and drinking beer for th e last 9 hours:D
SCore for the guys that gave us the loot!! |
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| jestmaty |
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| mmmmark |
Ahhh, MUDBUGS! I'm jealous.
Eat some for me!!:D |
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| krygny |
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Originally posted by mmmmark
Ahhh, MUDBUGS! I'm jealous.
Eat some for me!!:D
Eat 'em ALL for me. Please. :16: |
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| andrec8513 |
| All I can say is EWWWWW! Gross! |
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| mmmmark |
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Originally posted by andrec8513
All I can say is EWWWWW! Gross!
Do you eat shrimp and lobster? Well a crawfish is about half way in between.
Don't knock em if you haven't had a true southern crawfish boil!
I was a "crawfish virgin" when I moved here about 15 years ago. Now I'm a big fan!:cool: |
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| krygny |
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Originally posted by mmmmark
Do you eat shrimp and lobster?
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Do you eat spiders, ants and cockroaches? Same $#!+. |
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| mmmmark |
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Originally posted by krygny
Do you eat spiders, ants and cockroaches? Same $#!+.
LOL
Come on, do you REALLY think that is what they are? I'll assume that you are kidding, but here is some info for the 'uninitiated'.
Crawfish are freshwater crustaceans very much like small lobsters--which they are closely related to. FYI, crustaceans include shrimp, crabs, and barnacles off the top of my head.
Most of them sold in the U.S. are harvested from shallow pond "farms" where they are grown--like 90% of catfish. They were growing them clear back in the Roman Empire and were a delicacy. |
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| Pilot-Matt |
| Never tried them but would like to. Do'nt get crawfish here in Ohio. |
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| LChisum |
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Originally posted by krygny
Do you eat spiders, ants and cockroaches? Same $#!+.
Hey krygny, you ever eat an oyster? Can you imagine the first guy who did? Must have been really adventurous or really hungry!
Larry |
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| tsdad18 |
a gang of us from work just had a boil last night. 80 lbs of crawfish, 20 lbs shrimp, 12 lbs of sausage, lots of corn and potatos.
also 2 kegs.
good times, gotta suck the heads though! |
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| jestmaty |
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Originally posted by tsdad18
a gang of us from work just had a boil last night. 80 lbs of crawfish, 20 lbs shrimp, 12 lbs of sausage, lots of corn and potatos.
also 2 kegs.
good times, gotta suck the heads though!
Glad to see you guys getting back to some of the normal things that we southerners do. I'm originally from N.O. La. but left La. back in 1983 to move to Houston.
We had some REALLY nasty weather roll through early Saturday am, and I bet you were getting the same stuff for your crawfish boil Saturday night.
I hope it either stalled and came through after the party or missed you completely. I had some fond memories of Waveland, where fortunately, my elderly grandparents had passed on years ago. They surely would have had SERIOUS problems had they still been alive during the Katrina hurricane. THeir house was one of the typical style in Waveland, pier and beam, not a concrete slab.
I'm told that not one upright wall could be found at the homesite.
Back to the crawfish, these mudbugs were boiled by an outfit from Ville Platte, and they were great! Being a cajun myself, with help from other cajun relatives, we peeled and froze the entire ice chest last night.
Wound up with about 10 lbs of pure tail meat for future recipes. |
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| mmmmark |
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Originally posted by jestmaty
Wound up with about 10 lbs of pure tail meat for future recipes.
For the real moment of truth...
Did you suck the heads?:eek: |
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| jestmaty |
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Originally posted by mmmmark
For the real moment of truth...
Did you suck the heads?:eek:
I'm from New Orleans..... we learned to suck crawfish heads before we could suck formula from a baby bottle.
Suck da' heads and pinch the tails!!!! |
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| tsdad18 |
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Originally posted by jestmaty
We had some REALLY nasty weather roll through early Saturday am, and I bet you were getting the same stuff for your crawfish boil Saturday night.
yep, it hit us about 7. fortunately we had just finished cooking the last pot so we just moved the party into the garage. |
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| krygny |
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Originally posted by LChisum
Hey krygny, you ever eat an oyster? Can you imagine the first guy who did? Must have been really adventurous or really hungry!
Larry
Shellfish and me (no, I'm not Jewish and I'm not allergic):
I will, on rare occasion (and I mean RARE occasion), eat the meat from Alaskan King Crab legs (which is usually substituted with colored shark meat anyway) and stuffed clams (i.e., chopped up clams with breading and seasoning; basically a clam hot dog). That's it.
Every other week or so, we go out with my wife's family to a little Italian place where they bring a huge steaming pile of mussels as an appetizer. I sit there buttering my bread while they're all just slurping these things into their face holes and dunking their bread in the juice. I always remind them "You know, that's mostly clam urine!"
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Originally posted by jestmaty
I'm from New Orleans..... we learned to suck crawfish heads before we could suck formula from a baby bottle.
Suck da' heads and pinch the tails!!!!
The genesis of this behavior, has to have been the prehistoric loss of a bet. :D |
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| hondacuraworld |
| I've always wondered, are the claws eaten, or disposed of :confused: |
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| colorider |
| Moved from "General" |
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| mmmmark |
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Originally posted by hondacuraworld
I've always wondered, are the claws eaten, or disposed of :confused:
Just like a lobster--crack em open and eat em! Usually there isn't much there unless you have a pretty big crawfish though. |
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