re: spinoff: what do you dip your crawfish in?

My favorite part of any seafood boil is a cracker covered in dip with a piece of boiled garlic on top. Throw in a few crab eggs and it is almost orgasmic

Never had dip at any boils growing up in the New Orleans area and just discovered people did this last year when someone from the Houma hosted the crawfish boil.

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So you like the taste of crawfish but not shrimp...... Got it.

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No, you don't got it. I love the taste of both, but as I mentioned before, the size of the portion (in this case the tail meat) is relevant. Shrimp are about 4-5x larger than a crawfish in size and weight of the tail meat. Shrimp are also not typically boiled as spicy as crawfish. The meat is much denser, and therefore does not absorb as much of the boil. So, having a cocktail sauce for shrimp (to me) complements the somewhat milder flavor, not conflicts with it the way sauce would for a tiny, but deliciously seasoned spicy crawfish tail.

I still eat shrimp without sauce all the time, I'm just a lot more likely to dip my shrimp than I would my crawfish for reasons listed above. Simple enough?

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I eat sauce on things because I like the end product more-not because I don't like the unsauced one.

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i wonder if they are anti salt & pepper on meat

More the potatoes but ketchup, horseradish and worchestshire sauce all mixed together.

No dip, will use with potatoes and sausage