Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Where's that filet knife I had? Split crawdads? And you did what with the heads then? No shrimp boil then either I take it. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc James Small" Subject: [Leica] Crawdads > At 10:29 PM 5/22/06 -0500, Christopher Williams wrote: > >Type crawdads one more time and the cajun will find you and filet you. > > Well, I was raised in western Pennsytucky, and we always called them > crawdads there. And that is a pretty Yankee venue > > I grew up eating them on occasion but I had to visit New Orleans to meet > them in Etoufee, and that is a delightful dish, and one I rarely pass up > now that I know about it. > > Back in the hills of the northen Appalachians, we simply treated them as > little lobsters: we boiled them in hot salted water, then split them and > ate them in melted butter with garlic, and not much more than that. That > was still a tasty mouthful, as the dark came up over a chlling summer field. > > Marc