I am from New Orleans, and yes, I eat crawfish regularly when they are in season. It is the best seafood you will ever eat. The only thing that the video does not capture is the point of having a crawfish boil. Having a crawfish boil is about community. You have your friends and family over. While cooking, you have a few drinks and enjoy each other's company. When you finally sit down to eat. Everyone takes their time talking, laughing, and sharing stories. While the food is out of this world. A true crawfish boil is about friends and family coming together.
Dang Skippy. Beer, craws, tators, corn, sausage, corn, mushrooms, and enjoying friends and fam company. Gotta suck the heads. The bigger ones you clean the claws out. I'm from southern Arkansas in the Delta. Only thing they missing out on is some gator.
New England Clam Bake, Hawaiian Luao(sp?), Midwest BBQs, Pot Lucks and all the others are about the people more than the food... the food is usually just an excuse to get together. But if you're gonna get together you might as well go whole hog with the food, and that's exactly where whole hog as a saying came from. Pit roasts are my personal favorite out of all of these types of things.
@@jamestaylor3805 Wow! Thanks for teaching me something. I had no idea that people came together while eating throughout human history! I wonder if that's where the expression breaking bread came from. 🤔I am curious to know your answer to the original question: have you eaten crawfish, and how often?
I was born and grew up in South Louisiana... my (extended) family has 4-5 boils a year, every year since decades before I was born 50 years ago... around 40 people show up at my grandparents house and we boil around 400 lbs of seafood each time. we make an entire day out of it and eat both lunch and dinner there.
This is super normal. I live in Houston which is 6 hours from New Orleans, but half of NOLA, lives where I live, so when crawfish season starts, at every other grocery store, they will have stands out front where you can buy them cooked or raw. Also if you go to China Town, a lot of restaurants there also have crawfish by the pound. For newbies, the first couple, they may struggle with, but like 10 in, and you get a rhythm, and next thing you know, the whole platter is goine. Also keep in mind when she says 3lbs a person, the majority of what you see on the platter is shell which you don't eat.
@@nickjreacts Come on down brother! We'll gladly introduce you to some of the best food you can find. Also, if you ever do make it across the pond, try and pick a region (the south, northeast, west, etc.) to explore. The country is too big to try and experience it all in one trip, no matter how long. I mean we have 11 states bigger than the entire UK. Prepare yourself for lots of driving lol!
Nick I grew up and live on the Gulf Coast. We have Crawfish and Seafood boils all the time. The food is Amazing here and Yes you do have suck the heads of Crawfish. You would Love the South and the food. 😉👍❤️. You come to America 🇺🇸 I will show you the places. 😉👍❤️
Nick, you would love all this seafood! The crawfish is mostly shell, so for that 42 pound record eaten by one guy is probably only 5-7 pounds of meat (including head juices). The soft shell crab and the lobster are both excellent!
Crab and seafood boils in the US is common, especially during summer. The food is great. When I was little, we had seafood boils every summer. The gloves are to protect your fingers from the spices and juices. We use lots of lemons and water to waipe our hands.
its very easy. you just dump seasoning in a pot of boiling water and whatever else you want. the spicy corn that comes out of it is my favorite type of corn you can make.
a seafood boil is just a bag of spice in a big pot of water. its something even a brit could do at home. they just need some seafood to drop in it. (along with onion, lemon, potato and corn). anything you boil in that mixture will be delicious. the corn that comes out of that is my favorite type of corn. it ends up spicy. and crawfish are 85% shell by weight. 1 person could easily eat 5 lbs if they were a little hungry.
I’m from North Carolina but I just went here while on vacation and the food was so good. Loveeee soft shell crab and theirs was so good. And the cocktail had just the right amount of kick.
Family, on my dad's side, are from the Lafayette and Breaux Bridge areas of South Louisiana (aka. Cajun Country). According to my dad, I am half Cajun, though I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He referred to me and my siblings as his "half-assed" Cajuns. We used to go visit his, and my mom's family (Mississippi), every Summer. I fondly remember pickup trucks, full of boiled crawfish, backing up to the picnic tables, and letting the tailgates down. You would then take a tray, go to the pickup and fill your tray with all manner of crawfish, potatoes, half ears of corn, and tiny links of Cajun smoked sausage, all piled high in the back of the truck. We would literally eat for hours! Additionally, eating crawfish is colloquially known as "Sucking head, and pinching tail."
All my life I live an hour from New Orleans. I have ancestors just here in Mississippi and Louisiana. I am Afro Native American and I’m also a creole Louisiana Creole and I have always loved my crawfish crab. You need oysters and everything they eaten right now looks so good and you need to try some gumbo seafood gumbo❤❤
Crawfish boils are regional, although they are spreading across the States. It tends to be a Gulf Coast thing, with Louisiana being the cultural epicenter. The seasonings are generally Cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic, thyme, oregano, lemon zest, bay, mustard, peppercorns, onion, dill. It can be quite spicy (hence the gloves). There is usually corn, potatoes and sausage boiled with the crawfish. But spiced seafood boils are common all along the coastal areas. In parts of Texas and Louisiana, you'll encounter Viet-Cajun crawfish boils, which mix in lemongrass and other southeast Asian herbs and spices. .In the Carolinas, you have low-country boils or Frogmore stew, which use shrimp, sausage, corn, and potatoes. These boils are seasoned with Old Bay, which is a commercial spice blend. On the east coast, you'll find boils with mussels, crabs, shrimp and lobster tails and a range of seasonings. In the Pacific Northwest, there are boils with shrimp and clams. In New England, folks do clam boils with clams, lobster, mussels, corn, potatoes and -- frighteningly -- hot dogs. Outside of a restaurant setting, these are communal events. They take a fair amount of time and prep work. (For a crawfish boil, you start with purging the live crawfish. They aren't nicknamed mudbugs for nothing...) Generally, they are cooked outside. They tend to be half day long events where you socialize for hours before you eat.
I’m from Louisiana. Come on down and we will do a crawfish bowl for you when they are in season. And yes, we use a lot of spice so everything is spicy.
This is one of the few times that Josh gets something wrong. He seems to be “inhaling” the juices. You suck like a straw. It’s a mouth hit, not a lung hit. It’s still a bit of a kick, but at least your lungs won’t burn.
I live in uptown New Orleans. I have crawfish at least once a week along with the potatoes and corn and shrimp that are also in the boil. And sucking the is the best
Yep. In Texas we do this all the time, in season!!! But NO GLOVES! That's why you have hands!! 1# includes shells! It's a fun social part of eating together with family and friends! TFS! Austin TX USA
While working in Georgia I had what they call a 'low country boil', which I guess is pretty much the same thing. Cooked in a huge pot and tipped onto newspaper on the table. It was delicious. I did confess that when I was first invited for a 'low country boil', I wasn't sure whether to bring beer or ointment...
Our family has a big crawfish boil when they’re in season. (January to July in Arkansas) my Aunt owns a commercial crawfish farm and brings many ice chests full. Good times!
Yes, I have had this--you need a bib as well because it is messy but very good. The crawfish taste a little bit like lobster/shrimp combo. I do not recommend sucking the head if you do not like it spicy! Soft shell crab is terrific and the crab legs are great. The crawfish are also great fried--they are called Cajun popcorn in Louisiana. A crab boil is best with a crowd of folks. And cold beer goes with it, too. The food is well seasoned. If you like seafood, Louisiana is like visiting seafood heaven. The thing about the LA food is that the food had flavors on top of flavors--the chefs build the flavor in each step so the food is so good. The lady is helpful--the Louisiana people are nice to strangers like that--you will find people all over LA who are like that. Super friendly. However, the lady was wrong a bit about the Cajuns. She omitted the Creoles role in Louisiana cuisine. Louisiana food was created and cooked largely by enslaved cooks and also gens du colour libre (free people of color) during antebellum days. The enslaved people added a different flavor profile. Their fusion combined with the Fresh Gulf seafood created the legendary food of New Orleans and most of Louisiana. Gumbo is even an African word.
I think how a waitress or waiter treat you can really make any meal great and it’s good to see in every reaction I’ve done in a restaurant that all over America the waitress or waiter are always so friendly
Just try it, and you’ll find out how much you love your life!i grew up in Southern California, right on the beach, but I never had a Crab Boil until I moved to Georgia.😊
Ok so an old school snack from that same neck of the woods that you can acheive at home. A good quality butter cracker(like Ritz), thin slices of a sharp white cheddar, a smoked oyster from the tin, and a couple good dashes of Tabasco Sauce. To my understanding it was a common snack for oil field rough necks during the earlier days of the oil boom in Louisiana and the American midsouth.
Hey Nick. If you like shrimp and lobster you will love Crawfish or crayfish as the rest of the world says. Never could get my dad to say Crawfish it was always crayfish but he was from the north and I was raised in the south. They have a season from April to July maybe August, if lucky
4-5 pounds per person SOUNDS like a lot, but believe me, it's not a whole lot of actual meat. The meat inside them are tiny. Like, I could easily eat many pounds of crab (I'm from Maryland) but that's the weight of the entire creature, not just the meat inside. :)
Crawfish are fantastic, and the best part is…in a boil like this…you can keep eating them for like an hour and more before you’re full. First time I had them, my cheeks were all cut up and bleeding. I didn’t know how to properly eat them, and kept poking my face with the sharp pointed claws!
I'm from Oregon but we have some really good southern food considering how far away we are to the real thing! Not as good as New Orleans, of course, but pretty great. I get a proper seafood boil every year (at a restaurant that gives you free crab's legs on your birthday) and it's always delicious. You should definitely try it if you ever get the chance.
I don't care for crawfish or lobster but I would eat the heck out of all of that crab..with shrimp on the side. Crawfish are technically freshwater crustaceans not seafood since they don't come from the ocean. Peeling crawfish isn't that hard. I might not eat it but I had to learn to peel it for the kids who did. Like someone else said..out of that 42 pound bag of whole crawfish all you eat is the tail meat of each crawfish. In the end that's a lot less than 42 pounds. When we have crawfish boils it's useless to buy less than 200 pounds. Less wouldn't feed everyone.
Oh I LOVE a crawfish boil, I used to live in an area wirh them but now i live in an area with no harvestable crawfish that im aware of so its been way too long. There is a place near here that does thrm i think ill have to get some.
Very common in New Orleans. I could never bring myself to suck the head. That is where the brains are. I only ate the tail. I only lived in NOLA for a couple of years. It is not my favorite place. Not to mention I do not like seafood. 😅
“pinch the tail, suck the head”. Words to live by. I don’t like crawfish because there’s too little reward for all that work. A pound of crawfish only yields a few ounces of meat. Most of the weight is in the shell that you don’t eat.
Funny, but I LIKE them for the same reason: I’m not a big eater…I get full quickly…but with crawfish, I get to enjoy them for like an hour before I’ve had enough!
I only had crayfish once dont miss them. It's a good thing they're seasoned. I'm from Massachusetts, and we like cold water fish.the colder the water, the better the fish.
I used to split a stick at the end, sit in the creek and try and catch the crawfish by pinning their tail in the split...good times growing up in the country. They are fun to catch. I have never eaten one. It would be like eating a cockroach (to me).
