re: What is the deal with you folks and crawfish?

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You can get all those other things all through the south. Crawfish is pretty centric to S. La, reaching into the diaspora in texas and other places.

It’s something kind of unique about it, something especially…US. That has a quality all its own.

It’s about the experience, the spectacle, the anticipation.

A crawfish boil isn’t a meal, it’s an Event .

It’s the kids playing with the live crawfish as you clean them. The sound of the burner, the smell as you prep the water, citrus and spice.

It’s horseshoes and washer toss being played in the background. It’s friends you haven’t seen in a while, baseball on the TV. It’s spring, it’s life, and it’s Lousiana.

And I’ll take a pile of mudbugs with good company over a fancy 3-star meal any day.

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