The reason that people from Shreveport and Lafayette use crawfish dip.

I have always used vinegar/seasoning as a "dip". We have always boiled/soaked.

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It seems as though this may be a direct result of bland and dry crawfish resulting from using the ice chest shaker method as opposed to the soak method of cooking.

I never thought about there being a connection between these two phenomena, but it seems reasonable that they could be related.

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You are overthinking it. Some people will put A1 sauce on a prime steak that is perfectly cooked.

Some people would use crawfish dip on the best tasting crawfish you could imagine.

I have eaten crawfish from Shreveport to Belle River, and seen dip used.

I like using dip for my potatoes. Usually just some mayo, ketchup, and a bit of hot sauce.

No point in dipping a crawfish in dip, since you basically cover your fingers in the dip and that's all you taste.

I've lived in laffy for 20 yrs and not once have I seen someone cook crawfish using this ice chest "shaker" method, who the frick does this, hell I've never seen any restaurants around here do that either
Is this real??

I don't know what it is but the butthurt with different crawfish cooking recipes, methods, accompaniments etc. is stronger than most any food. I always get a kick out of how people associate X place with X way of doing something with crawfish. I've read how North LA was the only people that did the sprinkle. And yet the first person I knew around here that did it was as coonass as they come. You can get "dip" with crawfish from Mermentau to Monroe. Lake Charles to New Orleans. Don't like the dip? Don't use the dip. I personally rarely have time to drag a crawfish tail thru any type of sauce. It's a full fledge 20+ crawfish per minute machine gun assault going on. But I do like to drag a tater thru some salve and will dip a crawfish here and there. Also chicks love the dip and people who aren't generally accustomed to inhaling multiple pounds of crawfish love the dip. So let em dip I say.

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It's a full fledge 20+ crawfish per minute machine gun assault going on

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I can see Mrs. Balls running the stop watch hollerin' "Ready, Set, Go!" while you try to best your prior record.

Never seen the dip in Shreveport so not sure what you're talking about. Ice chest shaker, yes, but not dip.

Only person I've seen make and use a dip was from franklin.

I've never dipped a crawfish into anything other than a lemon that was boiled with it.

I never saw it in Shreveport. When I moved to Houma was my first time seeing a dip