Crawdads are tasty after all!
Category: Just Plain Silly...
Posted Friday, May 14, 2004 at 11:58 PM [GMT-6]

Being rather adventurous about foods and feeling I improve myself by trying new things, I decided my supper tonight prepared me to willingly eat just about anything. As I approached the entrance to our HEB, I was greeted by a host of tiny antenna and little pincers waving at me. A portable seafood steamer on a trailer was parked outside the store, cooking and Cajun seasoning mountains of crawfish and shrimp. The display of live crawfish, looking like miniature lobsters or something less delectable, spilled over the plexiglass retaining wall. Catching an escaping crustacean, the salesman offered to give my daughter and me a free sample. Upon our assent, he cleaned his hands and then grabbed a couple of steamed critters and thrust one into each of our hands. Deftly he demonstrated the means by which the head and thorax are removed and the tail is broken, exposing the teeny tiny bit of protein inside. The task evoked in me a visualization of breaking a large roach in half. EW!!! I popped the tail meat in my mouth. Mmm! No wonder people carry on so about these tasty treats! I bought 2 dinners (crayfish, boiled potatoes and corn on the cob) and a pound of shrimp. My daughter and I enjoyed our latest dining adventure. (My husband and son voted for Whataburgers.) But I don't think I'll be doing it again soon. There's just too much effort required for so little return. Besides, I have to worry now that the lingering odor on my fingers is going to be transferred to my keyboard!