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Crawfish for Easter?
Posted on 3/27/16 at 11:28 am
Posted on 3/27/16 at 11:28 am
Is this a new thing? If you do this, what parish/neighborhood are you originally from and for how long has this been a tradition for your family?
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Posted on 3/27/16 at 11:30 am to OleWar
Family crawfish boils for Easter have been around as long as I can remember.
From South La.
From South La.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 11:32 am to OleWar
As long as I can remember.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 11:32 am to OleWar
I'm 48 and have been doing crawfish for Easter my whole life. My mother's and my birthdays are close enough to Easter that we always celebrated all three at the same time (usually Easter Sunday).
Crawfish at Easter is one of my earliest memories.
I live in BR.
Crawfish at Easter is one of my earliest memories.
I live in BR.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 11:36 am to OleWar
First time I've heard of this
Posted on 3/27/16 at 12:39 pm to OleWar
I've heard in terms of sales, Easter weekend accounts for about half of all crawfish all season. Don't know how true that is...point is it's quite a bit
Posted on 3/27/16 at 12:42 pm to OleWar
For the last 5 years we've been boiling crawfish for Christmas Eve. My family always bar be ques for Easter.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 12:54 pm to LSUstudent2006
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Don't know how true that is...point is it's quite a bit
It's not. But it is the busiest weekend of the year by far.
South LA and crawfish for Easter weekend has been a tradition for most everyone I know for as long as I can remember.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 12:57 pm to OleWar
We've done it for twenty or so years. It wasn't our tradition growing up, though. Originally, Jeff Davis Parish. Been in Lafayette for a long, long time.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 1:39 pm to OleWar
If you're in South Louisiana and you're not at a crawfish boil at some point between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, then SORRY... but you're just not living right.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 2:29 pm to alumni95
My ancestors are mostly from Lafourche Parish. They moved to New Orleans in 1920s. Easter was always the most formal dinner of the year. Sister's in-laws were having crawfish this year and my in-laws decided to do crawfish last year for Easter.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 2:35 pm to OleWar
All of my family is from Ascension and assumption parish. Crawfish of some sort on good Friday and Easter has been the norm for as long as I can recall. Usually boil on good Friday and have bisque or stew Easter Sunday.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 2:37 pm to OleWar
No. Crawfish on Good Friday when you can't eat meat. Ham and meat on Easter when you can.
Posted on 3/27/16 at 5:21 pm to OleWar
I wish we did this. My family does same ole ham, potato salad, dirty rice, etc menu. Booooorrrrrrrring
Posted on 3/28/16 at 12:46 am to TigerstuckinMS
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No. Crawfish on Good Friday when you can't eat meat. Ham and meat on Easter when you can.
I am not Catholic but thought I understood how this worked. I thought they couldn't eat meat on Fridays but could eat it the other 6 days of the week. So why the need to eat meat on Easter Sunday? It isn't as if they have been unable to eat meat since Mardi Gras or anything.
Crawfish boils on Easter just make sense. A holiday where family gets together and crawfish are in season. Duh.
This post was edited on 3/28/16 at 12:47 am
Posted on 3/28/16 at 7:16 am to OleWar
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Is this a new thing?
Did you just wake up?
Posted on 3/28/16 at 7:47 am to OleWar
We crayfished Saturday . Carnivored yesterday.
Posted on 3/28/16 at 8:14 am to BigB0882
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I am not Catholic but thought I understood how this worked. I thought they couldn't eat meat on Fridays but could eat it the other 6 days of the week. So why the need to eat meat on Easter Sunday?
Because nobody wants the giant pain in the arse that is a crawfish boil twice in the same weekend.
See, everyone gets together with immediate family and friends and does a big seafood production (crawfish, a big fish fry, a big sauce piquante, etc.) on Good Friday because meat is bad, you see. So, when the extended family gets together at Grandma's house for Easter, nobody wants crawfish or fish again, but it's still going to be a big special meal, so that means stuff that we wouldn't usually have for Sunday dinner, like a giant barbecue or a baked ham.
This post was edited on 3/28/16 at 8:17 am
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