Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, yabbies

Crawfish here.
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!
 
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