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That's Crazy! I was born late 70's, so I have never known a world without crawfish boils. I'm not sure if I ever would have wanted to live in said world. My parents are both from down the bayou, but I only moved here when I was in high school. I would say that crawfish was EASILY my favorite food in the world. In The World.

It's true. I remember seeing Bob Scearce on his TV show at Camp Bayou Corn boiling and eating them early 70's and that was about the only place to get them unless you crawfished yourself. I'm sure some people did them but not many and no restaurants except maybe the etouffee at Picadilly and maybe Don's Seafood may have had an item or two. Not sure when they started.

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Posted by Stadium Rat

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Member since Jul 2004

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Posted on 9/14/09 at 11:47 am to Martini

Yes, it is true for the Metairie area, too.

I was a teenager in Metairie in the 70's and most of my friends had never had crawfish. My dad rigged up the burner from an old hot water heater and tapped it into our natural gas line at home. Back then, you couldn't buy an outdoor LP cooker like you can today. We would catch crawfish in the spillway or along Airline Highway because you really couldn't buy them locally. You could buy the nets at Schwegmann's, though.

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Posted by Ole Geauxt

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Posted on 9/14/09 at 11:59 am to Martini

We were catching and cooking them up in Sicily in the late 60's and early 70's.. I do not remember what we used to boil with, as far as seasoning, but I don't think we had any Zat's or any kind of dry mix. I think we used lemons, oranges, red pepper and I don't know what else.. The earliest kind of "store bought" I remember was the liquid boil in the little bottles.

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