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re: Oregon Crawfish
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:24 pm to GoDucks349
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:24 pm to GoDucks349
I've been to the Tualatin Crawfish Festival, way back in 2003. They sold me 3 crawfish for a dollar, served unseasoned and cold. Never been back. Only thing that impresses me about the Tualatin Festival is that a voodoo queen put a hex on them in the 70s and it caused a riot.
Every May, me and the rest of the Rose City Tigers LSU Alumni group have a real crawfish boil in the same park in Tualatin. Just to spite them. Actually, the Tualatin parks folks love us and one of our volunteers who does most of the work is a Tualatin resident so I should be nice to the friendly folks in Tualatin.
We boil up between 500 to 600 pounds the right way and wash it down with a keg of Abita and 12 dozen or more oysters from the Oregon coast.
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Photos from the 2009 Rose City Tigers crawfish boil
Every May, me and the rest of the Rose City Tigers LSU Alumni group have a real crawfish boil in the same park in Tualatin. Just to spite them. Actually, the Tualatin parks folks love us and one of our volunteers who does most of the work is a Tualatin resident so I should be nice to the friendly folks in Tualatin.
We boil up between 500 to 600 pounds the right way and wash it down with a keg of Abita and 12 dozen or more oysters from the Oregon coast.
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Photos from the 2009 Rose City Tigers crawfish boil
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Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:27 pm to Choctaw
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GoDucks349
so how hard was it for you not to type "crayfish" or "crawdaddies"?
Never even occurred to me that it would be spelled any other way. I haven't heard of them referred to as anything other than Crawfish in a very very long time. When I first saw the comment on here about how I spelled it, I couldn't figure out what other way there was to spell crawfish......
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:27 pm to oleheat
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You should visit Louisiana around late April or May. You may find out that there is indeed an art to boiling crawfish
No need.
Any of your Oregon fans interested in seeing crawfish boiled right are more than welcome to join our boil next May.
Oregon fans are always welcome so long as they know their place in the food chain. We might yell Tiger Bait at you but we'll feed you well.
Duck fans... this is a good primer on how to mingle with LSU fans courtesy of Carl Dubois:
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Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:28 pm to ipodking
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From the festival's activities page:
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You have to see this contest to believe it! How many crawfish do you think a person can eat (tail & claws) in 15 minutes? The festival record set in 1970 is a whopping 170!
haha...who the frick eats claws, unless they happen to be a really big one?
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:29 pm to pdxlsufan
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They sold me 3 crawfish for a dollar
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:32 pm to chickman1313
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my favorite food from the northwest that i had when i lived there was the Dungeoness crab. love those things! but i did em way different than people were used to up there. Boiled em just like crawfish or crabs down here. The locals were amazed!
One of our local alums lives out in Tillamook. He brings in the Oregon oysters for our alumni boil in May. He and his wife took me and my wife fishing off the Oregon coast last September. We didn't catch crap in the way of fish but limited out on crab. Went back to his house and boiled them all in crab boil. I thought they'd be too spicy but he did them PERFECT. Wife and I were eating crab for every meal for a week. Far and away the best crab I've ever had. And the coastal views were out of this world as we got lucky and it was a beautiful sunny day.
Yeah, cool story brah.. I know...
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:32 pm to Tiger in NY
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15 minutes? The festival record set in 1970 is a whopping 170!
So thats about 4.5 pounds of crawfish in 14 min. Maybe less if their crawfish are small.
I would guess without being rushed most people in LA would eat about 4 pounds of crawfish in 20 min or so peeling casually.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:33 pm to mpar98
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guys...im talking about being up in oregon...yes I prefer Blue Crab, but god knows their not gonna spice crawfish right, so Dungeoness is a good choice UP there.
ahh...gotcha
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:35 pm to Tiger in NY
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haha...who the frick eats claws, unless they happen to be a really big one?
The crawfish they get from Lake Billy Chinook in Central Oregon are pretty large relative to Louisiana crawfish. Cold weather varieties tend to be bigger.
For our alumni boil, we fly up the crawfish (costs a dollar more a pound to ship) from a crawfish farm in Natchitoches. I think most, if not all, of the LSU alumni chapters west of the Rockies have the crawfish flown out from Louisiana. Believe it not, it's cheaper than getting them locally. I read somewhere that Oregon produces more crawfish than any state other than Louisiana. I would guess that has a lot to do with the annual festival in Tualatin.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:35 pm to GoDucks349
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Never even occurred to me that it would be spelled any other way. I haven't heard of them referred to as anything other than Crawfish in a very very long time.
When I first saw the comment on here about how I spelled it, I couldn't figure out what other way there was to spell crawfish......
you're a rare breed then my friend.
it makes me cringe everytime i hear a yankee call the crayfish or crawdaddies
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:36 pm to pdxlsufan
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One of our local alums lives out in Tillamook
you ever hit up the tillamook cheese factory for some awesome cheese, ice cream , and beef jerky? lol
Marionberry pie ice cream FTW
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:36 pm to pdxlsufan
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No need.
Any of your Oregon fans interested in seeing crawfish boiled right are more than welcome to join our boil next May.
Oregon fans are always welcome so long as they know their place in the food chain. We might yell Tiger Bait at you but we'll feed you well.
I'd love to do that. And I'd be a polite guest. LSU fans have been great. I'll be pulling for you guys in the SEC in the future. Love to see you guys clown stomp Auburn, those were some rude fans before and after the game.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:39 pm to OryGunDucks
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you ever hit up the tillamook cheese factory for some awesome cheese, ice cream , and beef jerky? lol
Marionberry pie ice cream FTW
I would go vegetarian before giving up tillamook cheese.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:39 pm to QwakAddict
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For the record, Oregon and WA boast the best salmon in the world. It is only caught here. It is unlike any other salmon you've eaten. If you were to buy it around your town it would likely sell for upwards of $29.00 per lb!
Completely disagree... northern BC and Alaskan salmon over Ore/Wash/South BC anyday of the week.
I find in general the seafood on the west coast gets better the farther north you go.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:42 pm to igoringa
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Completely disagree... northern BC and Alaskan salmon over Ore/Wash/South BC anyday of the week.
I find in general the seafood on the west coast gets better the farther north you go.
It hard to compete with Alaska. My uncle guided both here on the coast and Alaska and says the latter is just a different world.
Oregon has a lot second bests: apples (washington), potatoes (idaho), Salmon (alaksa), Beer (vermont), NCG (auburn)...
This post was edited on 9/1/11 at 1:43 pm
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:43 pm to GoDucks349
I say a couple of us go next year and frick their crawfish eating festival all up!
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:46 pm to Choctaw
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Never even occurred to me that it would be spelled any other way. I haven't heard of them referred to as anything other than Crawfish in a very very long time.
When I first saw the comment on here about how I spelled it, I couldn't figure out what other way there was to spell crawfish......
you're a rare breed then my friend. it makes me cringe everytime i hear aquote:call the crayfish or crawdaddies
yankee
I get the impression sometimes that anyone outside of the south is considered a yankee. Sort of does the same thing to me that crayfish does to you..... cringe.
Yankees are east coaster and new englanders.
Left coaster, fine, tree hugger fine, hippy fine, but yankee........ no thanks.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:47 pm to OryGunDucks
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not bland at all. It doesnt take a rocket scientist to season food
Yes, but you don't have Tony's.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:50 pm to igoringa
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For the record, Oregon and WA boast the best salmon in the world. It is only caught here. It is unlike any other salmon you've eaten. If you were to buy it around your town it would likely sell for upwards of $29.00 per lb!
Completely disagree... northern BC and Alaskan salmon over Ore/Wash/South BC anyday of the week.
I find in general the seafood on the west coast gets better the farther north you go
I think that's a pretty accurate post. For salmon Copper River is pretty nice. Although, I do like Oregon/Wash dungeness crab over what they have further north. I'll take some good local sturgeon as well. But in general further north equals better fish.
Posted on 9/1/11 at 1:50 pm to TigerKnights
This may be somewhat related but one day I was in Orlando and tried some crawfish from a hotel there.
It was frickin unseasoned.
It was frickin unseasoned.
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