Just did a crawfish boil

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whm1974

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Maybe I'll try some Crawfish one day. Do you boil them alive like lobster?
 

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They’re everywhere, no danger of running out lol. I'd think highly sustainable.
It sure looks that way as they grow as far north as New York and even Sweden. And here I thought they only live in the American South.
 

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Does canned crawfish exist? I did a Yahoo search and all that comes up are frozen crawfish tails.
 

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Nope. The frozen crawfish tails are what you want for throwing in dishes, make sure to spend a couple more dollars for Louisiana ones instead of Chinese that have who knows what on them.
 

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Unfortunately they're hard to get in any decent quantity outside of the Gulf Coast. I do need to check and see if my grocery has any decent frozen packs though.
 

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Unfortunately they're hard to get in any decent quantity outside of the Gulf Coast. I do need to check and see if my grocery has any decent frozen packs though.
If I try one and find that I enjoy eating them, I am not quite sure I would move far enough south to where they commonly eaten.
 

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Unfortunately they're hard to get in any decent quantity outside of the Gulf Coast. I do need to check and see if my grocery has any decent frozen packs though.
I wouldn't bother with frozen. Most of those are from China. It's pricey but you can get the live ones air shipped from Louisiana.
 

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I wonder why crawfish is only eaten down South in the US? I mean both crab and lobster are eaten nearly everywhere, so why not crawdads?
 

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@UglyCasanova and @Chaotic42 what are your thoughts on this from Vice:
why-arent-people-eating-washingtons-giant-crawfish

Looks like there is some demand for the local crawdad species and it's increasing.
 

UglyCasanova

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I wouldn't bother with frozen. Most of those are from China. It's pricey but you can get the live ones air shipped from Louisiana.


It totally depends on what you’re using it for. For a crawfish boil yeah you have to have live ones, but for making jambalaya or like I did just now with the leftovers a crawfish & andouille pasta you don’t need live. I couldn’t see anybody buying live ones, boiling them, pealing them, all just to throw in jambalaya when he frozen works just as well. And they definitely have Louisiana frozen crawfish but you have to be careful looking for it. There’s a brand called Beudreaux's that I see all the time with a picture of Louisiana on it but if you read the fine print it’s from China or Vietnam. Louisiana frozen exists and is about 1.5x the price.
 

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It totally depends on what you’re using it for. For a crawfish boil yeah you have to have live ones, but for making jambalaya or like I did just now with the leftovers a crawfish & andouille pasta you don’t need live. I couldn’t see anybody buying live ones, boiling them, pealing them, all just to throw in jambalaya when he frozen works just as well. And they definitely have Louisiana frozen crawfish but you have to be careful looking for it. There’s a brand called Beudreaux's that I see all the time with a picture of Louisiana on it but if you read the fine print it’s from China or Vietnam. Louisiana frozen exists and is about 1.5x the price.
I had a can of smoked oysters for China like last year, while I'm not that fond of oysters these were rather nasty.
 

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I wonder why crawfish is only eaten down South in the US? I mean both crab and lobster are eaten nearly everywhere, so why not crawdads?


It’s spreading, give it time. We used to drive up to Missouri all the time where my ex was from and I was surprised one of the last times I went that I saw a place selling boiled crawfish all the way up there. I’d imagine uses in dishes will spread much further and faster than crawfish boils themselves due to practicality.
 

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Maybe I consume some crayfish Gumbo when I get the chance or what is that dish starts with a J?
 

UglyCasanova

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I had a can of smoked oysters for China like last year, while I'm not that fond of oysters these were rather nasty.


It’s not that the meat tastes bad, the concern is that they have absolutely zero water quality regulations and such and who knows what kind of chemicals are lurking in there. There’s always a risk here too I suppose but to a much much less degree.
 

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It’s not that the meat tastes bad, the concern is that they have absolutely zero water quality regulations and such and who knows what kind of chemicals are lurking in there. There’s always a risk here too I suppose but to a much much less degree.
I had decent Oysters from the US before, and while I would eat it regularly, I could eat some every so often.
 

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Maybe I consume some crayfish Gumbo when I get the chance or what is that dish starts with a J?


Jambalaya

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whm1974

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Thanks. I had canned Jambalaya before, but I don't think it actually had any crawdads in it.