LA Crawfish Tails?

I've bought fresh quite often at Calvin's.

Any of the AG stores around BR almost always have some fresh during season-Matherne's and Calandro's for sure, as I've seen them there in the past few days. You can use the Chinese ones to save money, although throwing in a handful of chopped up rubber bands would be even cheaper and pretty much as flavorful.

9.99 a pound here in Lafayette

I could buy peelers for $10 a sack a few weeks ago, don't know what they're going for now.


you can expect about a 17% yield with that

The plant I use charges about 3.50 a pound to peel them

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9.99 a pound here in Lafayette

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Where are you shopping?

I bought some for that price right before Easter, on sale at Albertsons. By Good Friday they were back to $16.99 a pound. $12.99 a pound the last few weeks.

I always look for the certified Louisiana logo and even then read all the fine print to make sure it's a Louisiana product. Last few times they were a combo of wild caught and pond. And they were delicious.

Great prices.

Piggly Wiggly had them on sale last week for 8.99 a lb. Bought a shite ton

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doesn't it take 9-10 pounds to get a pound of meat?

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A couple weekends ago I peeled 21 pounds of med-large crawfish and ended up with 3.5 pounds of tail meat, so 6# of med/large crawfish = 1# of tail meat. Also interesting, a quart ziploc bag stuffed full with crawfish tails is around 2.5# FWIW.

ETA: 1# crawfish tails in Shreveport is running $13.99 at Brookshire's. Not sure about other places.

There's a sale at the Albertsons in DS tomorrow. 8.99