re: The Origin of Crawfish Etouffee

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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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Pretty much most metropolitan areas the same even Lafayette. I have some close friends who lived in town and they say the same.

I remember buying them for .10 a pound.