Crayfish/Mudbugs/Crawdads: Incredible or Inedible?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

😋

[PubliusEnigma]

1. Indelible

[Croney]

2. They're not any of those things, they are crawfish.

Yum.

[Docreed2003]

5. This! And they're amazing!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

25. A crustacean by any other name! 😋

[lapfog_1]

3. My favorite Cajun dish

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[A HERETIC I AM]

16. Here's a place that does a GREAT job of making that dish;

https://boudinshop.com/

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]

18. Any time I am in New Orleans

I try to make a pilgrimage to BonTon Cafe... yeah, a bit touristy, etc. But the Etouffee is wonderful.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

26. Oh man! 😋

[HopeAgain]

28. Etouffe!

Yum!

[lapfog_1]

53. I love a very rich gravy...

well spiced!

[SeattleVet]

4. Suck the heads and eat the tails...

absolutely incredible!

[mitch96]

15. I saw this as a tee shirt when I was in Mamou Louisiana

Suck a little head pinch a little tail... all good!
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[Floyd R. Turbo]

31. Indeed! 😋

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. The only way! 😋

[Kber]

6. True story

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 can’t eat them anymore because it just feels wrong.

[awesomerwb1]

7. lol How long do those things live??

[Kber]

19. Up to 5 years!

This particular one lasted 3 once we got her home.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Wow! Very cool!

[Kittycow]

8. We used to catch them on sticks+string+chicken parts

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]

34. We used their tails for catfish bait. On a lucky day we'd have catfish and crawdads for dinner! 😋

[Kittycow]

40. Oh my gosh...pure heaven!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. You ain't wrong!

😋

[Paladin]

9. Absolutely love 'em. especially in a good boil like that. (nt)

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

17. Why has no one mentioned Hawks?

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The best place I know for boiled crawfish: hawkscrawfish.com, located in the middle of nowhere, but not far from Rayne LA.

[Paladin]

20. Haven't made it there, yet.

But if it's in the vicinity of Rayne, I have no doubt they know how to handle crawdads.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Yep! 😋

[Solly Mack]

10. Pinch and Pull! I do not suck the head. Yeah, yeah. It's a saying down here.

Pinch the tail and suck the head.

I prefer to pull the meat out without sucking the head.

Eating crayfish sounds so dirty.

[tonyt53]

14. I'm with you on the eating method!

[Solly Mack]

37. I get mocked for it, by "real" Cajuns but I can live with that.

[Paladin]

22. Once you've had enough beer, sucking the heads is quite attractive.

The dirtiness factor is part of the fun.

[Solly Mack]

38. There will never be enough beers. Never. :)

[Paladin]

43. You know, once upon a time I vacationed in Cape Cod.....

....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]

44. The Tomalley. No - still not enough beer.

Though everyone I know who enjoys lobster swears it is excellent.

I will eat fried chicken livers though.

[Paladin]

47. Thanks for the terminology.

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]

48. People love it, I know. I haven't allowed myself to become that refined yet. :)

I take a lot of ribbing about it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. Some things are better when it gets a little dirty! 😏

[Solly Mack]

39. Yes, but not craw-daddies.

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]

11. ". . .you boil 'em down till they nice and red. . ."

". . .you squeeze the tail and you suck the head. . ."

Crawfish !!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

41. Nice! 👍🏻

[brewens]

12. Pretty good. I'd rather take a live one and turn it into a nice bass though. That's legal where I

fish, provided you caught the crawfish in the same water. That is not hard to do.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. We used to use them to snag catfish! 😋

[dameatball]

13. Oh waiter! Just the tails please, with a nice Gumbo.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

46. The kitchen staff will be all over the heads! 😋

[dameatball]

49. Probably so. I lead a sheltered life....:)

[Croney]

21. Elvis in King Creole

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

54. A watchable Elvis flick! Due in large part to the presence of

Carolyn Jones!

[jmowreader]

23. Put me down for...

"Pretty good, but not worth making a special trip to Louisiana for."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

55. Fortunately they are available almost everywhere! 😋

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. More trouble than they are worth IMHO

I prefer shrimp.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

56. I always liked Curly!

[stonecutter357]

27. Incredible

[Floyd R. Turbo]

57. 😋

[Runningdawg]

29. Incredible!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

58. 😋

[rownesheck]

30. they are...

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]

59. 😋

[dameatball]

50. I was looking at home w/acreage in the mopuntains once. It had a well house.

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]

60. Check this out:

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/

[dameatball]

61. Thanks Floyd. These white specimans were in Elk Creek, VA.

[Freethinker65]

51. Laissez les bons temps rouler

[Floyd R. Turbo]

62. Oui, cher!

[Kajun Gal]

52. Incredibly Edible! Luv 'dem mudbugs!!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

63. 😋