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That looks like my fresh water crayfish meal of yesterday
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Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, yabbies
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JAS_OH1
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I love crayfish! My family in SE Texas called them crawfish or crawdads.That looks like my fresh water crayfish meal of yesterday
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Never heard that name until I read ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ even then I spent the whole time reading the book wondering what crawdads are
Barriehie
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Crawfish here.
JAS_OH1
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I was raised saying crawfish and the restaurants (and my friends) in my hometown of Destin, FL had regular crawfish boils (not to mention the ones all throughout the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana).
It's my Texas cousins that really messed me up on that one. But that started when I was about four when my cousins in Port Arthur (SE Texas near the Louisiana state line) and I were playing after it rained, and they were looking in the water in the very full drainage ditches and saw something in there. My cousin Lonny said, "Hey, there's mud bugs in there! Let's catch a mess and have ma boil 'em up for us! I just plain freaked out and ran back inside my aunt's house screaming to my dad, "Daddy, Lonny, Donny, Ronny, Louticia, and Grover (yes, those were their real names...you can't make that sh*! up) are going to catch bugs for Aunt Betty to cook for them!" My dad busted up laughing and explained to me that they were just crawfish (I hadn't ever tasted one yet) and they were yummy, like shrimp (which I loved), but he wasn't sure it was a great idea to catch them out of the drainage ditch.
Over here they call them "camacuto". Some of them are pretty big and can weigh in at half a kilo (about 1lb).
In the Henri Pittier rain forest, in Aragua state, they're blue!
In the Henri Pittier rain forest, in Aragua state, they're blue!
JAS_OH1
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You should see the ones in NZ, Australia, and Tasmania!!! Right rascal?
Tasmanian Crayfish Profile. The Largest Crayfish in the World - Shrimp and Snail Breeder
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Blimey that’s quite a size!
Crawdads here, but pronounced crawdeads.
rascal
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I eat them when in Australia. We also have them. A place where I camped years ago I caught some and cooked..they are pretty sweet wee morsel. About 6ninches long.
Russ