Eating crawfish in Louisiana

The first night in Shreveport was crawdad (as they are often called in the south)night.

These tiny little lobster like creatures are a real

delicacy in the south east U.S. Louisiana produced 98% of the countries crawfish.

It had been nearly 40 years since I last ate them so I had to relearn the technique. We bought them freshly boiled from the Crawfish Palace.

AND they are expensive. $112.00 for crawfish, potatoes and corn for 7 people.

Many people start by sucking out the head. I skipped that. Then my nieces demonstrated the

procedure of straightening out the tail,

twisting if off, separating it from the body

then pull the tail apart -Wohla - A very

tiny piece of meat that tastes like lobster.

The last step is cleaning up.

Toss out the shells.

Clean off your face and hands.

Since the crawdads are boiled in

water with a hot red spice some people

have to suck on ice cubes.

I noticed that there is a crawfish festival in

Tucson this weekend. The crawfish are

listed in the paper as $8.00 a lb. And

most people eat several lbs. My niece and

her hubby say they eat about 5 lbs a piece.