Two Brits try Louisiana Crawfish Boil for the first time! 

Debbie was so kind, attentive, understanding and willing to teach ♥️ Debbie is the best!

I’m from Mississippi, and I have a cousin who moved to England and married a guy who owned a fish market. When she found out that crawfish are an invasive species there, she told him to have his guys go out and catch as many as they could. While they were doing that, she made up the best Cajun crawfish boil spice mix she could come up with, so when they got back with the crawfish, she boiled them just like these. They absolutely loved it.

People like Debbie are so important. They can be the difference between a good restaurant experience and one of the best meals of your life.

Louisiana hands down has the greatest regional cuisine in the US. Glad you got to experience it!

Glad you're liking our food! When y'all get home, make sure to tell your fellow Brits that Louisiana has the solution to your little invasive crawfish issue.

Crawfish boils are such a communal experience, so I strangely enjoyed the last hyperlapse. You just get into a rhythm, and you don't even think about what you're doing, you're just talking to your family and friends, working your way through the pile of seafood.

Louisiana has a very unique culinary tradition

As a Louisiana girl, born and raised. I can confirm everything about the amount crawfish you eat in one sitting is correct.

I used to work with Debbie! She's definitely the soul of that restaurant and Salvo's has some fantastic boiled seafood. Anyone visiting NOLA needs to get genuine boiled seafood outside of the French Quarter at local restaurants to get the real experience.

I love that this channel is basically the British rediscovering spices 😂 But in all seriousness, I love this channel!

Debbie is the perfect example of southern hospitality!

I'm always very amused by Brits being like "wow seasoning makes food tastes good" 🤣

I was invited to a backyard crawfish boil in New Orleans many years ago, during my only visit to the city, and it remains the single greatest meal of my life. I ruined a shirt. It was like I survived a crawfish explosion.

Being from New Orleans, I take our local cuisine for granted. I enjoy watching people discover the joy of our local food. It reminds me how blessed I am to live in such a great city.

Watching your videos makes me feel better about my country. You have come across a number of service workers that go above and beyond to make you feel welcome and help you enjoy your dining experience in their restaurant. Not only are you show casing the diversity of American cuisine for your worldwide audience, but you're also shining a light on who Americans are as a people. I hope you tipped Debbie well---she was awesome!

I’m convinced Ollie was from Louisiana from his past life: -Had a sense of humor with the soft shell crab -Caught on how to shell a crawfish -Would consistently suck the crawfish head -Compare crawfish to addicting flaming Cheetos -The face trying the crab juice, which I don’t think Ollie has ever lit up like that for any reaction lol 😆 -Experimenting to see if sucking the lobster head will be good -Found put it wasn’t -Kept eating more crawfish

I'm really glad this woman (DEBBIE) kept coming back. She helps them more than I think they realize and her reactions to them also are funny. Not to mention she is teaching people all over the world what to do in New Orleans when eating the local seafood.

"We have the entire cast of the Little Mermaid on the plate." 😂😂 Besides the hilarious commentary... I figured out why I love watching these 2 eat so much. They show immense pleasure when it is good... and have no fear to "eat things wrong."

I’ve been waiting for them to come to Louisiana to try our food. Also, I wouldn’t say it’s just the French Cajuns but our food is so good because of all the different cultures who played a big part in our little culinary world.

I always appreciate how open and happy they are to have things explained and how they engage with the staff anywhere they go. That all just looked so good!

Ollie started to looking like a he had been eating this way for years by the end. I think he was truly enjoying himself more than any other video I have seen.

If Ollie tries to make this back in the UK, we need a video of his process PLEASE. XD

I am a born and raised Californian. We have an overabundance of crawfish in our waterways. There is a festival in Isleton California called the crawdad festival. It is huge. Yet they crawfish in Louisiana are cooked way better. I didn't understand until a Cajun friend took me there. Big eye opener. I learned so much about Cajun food just so I could make it myself. I make a fantastic Jambalaya thanks to him.

I love seeing the cameraman's and other crew members' reactions, too. So glad you share with them. ❤

I can’t believe that I’m watching Josh and Ollie eat at Salvos of all places. A five minute walk from my childhood house. It’s a surreal experience that I know exactly what their experience is. I’ll be watching this video over and over for a long time.

Louisiana has a very unique culinary tradition. So many cultures came together to create the identity down there.

Debbie is like that teacher you thought would be scary but is actually cool. Seeing the blue crab's soup made me want to have that with rice.

This Cajun just served chargrilled oysters at my daughter’s wedding in New Orleans. This video made me happy.

As a cajun myself i am proud of seeing some brits eating crawfish so well cultured

Debbie was so sweet to watch over them and make sure they ate their food the local way. She's awesome. I'm glad Josh and Ollie and crew enjoyed it so much! Laissez les bon temps rouler!

My dad was from New Orleans. He passed away very suddenly in August 2022 after a very brief battle with pancreatic cancer. I think about him all the time, but today, because of your wonderful video, I smiled a lot more when thinking of him, and all the great times we had in New Orleans together. The food down there is unmatched. Thanks for making me smile! Hope you all enjoy yourselves down there and can’t wait to see what you try next!

I love watching Europeans explore and enjoy southern food🎉❤

My wife and I planned our anniversary trip (currently on it) to New Orleans and have been following your food stops. Salvo’s is hands-down the best place we have been to. This place more than lives up to your review. Fantastic food and wonderful atmosphere. Debbie was there and Rory was our server. He was great. Highly recommend the King Cake bread pudding. Thanks guys!

I always enjoy the way that Josh and Ollie include the crew in their eating. And I love the idea that food does not go to waste. Though I am a native Texan, my mother‘s family is from Louisiana and what the guys are eating on here is absolutely, what I ate growing up.

As a New Orleanian, I’m def proud of the places y’all have tried so far! Even more happy that y’all are thoroughly enjoying our cuisine & flavors! Who dat?!🖤⚜️

I love Debs attention and she seemed so pleasant and that's the type of server that makes an experience so memorable. I loved her smile whenever she didn't think she was on camera.

Josh and Ollie are always so entertaining and gracious.

Debbie was so kind and I love the guys are willing to try different foods and give honest opinions. I love watching them they are so adorable 😍

Nicest people I've ever met were from the bayou. They showed this NYer so much love and fed me everywhere I went. Very happy you got to experience sometime southern hospitality ❤

Ollie is living proof that intrusive thoughts PROPERLY CHANNELED can be a good thing.

Debbie was a sweetheart. Ollie is precious 💖 I love Josh and Ollie 😂

I love how she made sure you guys knew what to do and helps show you. Southern hospitality is surreal

I love that Ollie always says what Josh is thinking but isn't brave enough to say. haha

As someone born, raised and living in Louisiana I love this. I love seeing people enjoy and acknowledge our good. We know our seasonings, for many of us our food is how we show our love.

YOU GUYS WERE IN MY HOMETOWN!!! I grew up just two streets away from where this is! How surreal… I know they would treat anyone who comes through with kindness and warmth. That’s true southern hospitality for you ❤️

This is directed to Ollie wanting to try a boil in the UK. Bring back a tub of zatarians crawfish, shrimp and crab boil with you. Don’t skimp, get the 4.5lb tub. And honestly the simplest instruction to give you is to check out the Cajun Ninja’s video on boiling (and basically anything he cooks) So glad you guys made it over here, I knew you would enjoy it :)

Growing up in New Orleans I never realized how much effort and uniqueness goes into the food we cook. Glad y’all are enjoying our culture while you’re down here!

Always remember this dining experience when people in Europe tell you, "American cuisine is hot dogs and hamburgers".

Every crawfish boil I’ve been to has been in somebody’s backyard. Love them.

Debbie made this segment, what an amazing lady! The food is incredible, and the guys really enjoyed it. Very nice representation of regional southern seafood.

You can get great crawfish at a restaurant like that, but a full blown crawfish boil in someone's backyard is a whole other experience and worth coming to town in the spring for.

Great video guys and you can do this in the UK if you can get your hands on the seafood. I'll give you a good tip... go to a US grocery store while you are there and buy something in the spice section called "Zatarains Seafood Boil". You can get it in a solid form or liquid..I prefer liquid. Get some water boiling with salt, add this Zatarains generously then add the seafood (shrimp, crawfish) to the boiling water and turn off the heat immediately. Let the seafood sit in the hot water for 15 minutes or longer if you want it really spicy, remove from water, cool a bit then enjoy! You can also add corn and potatoes to the boil but let them boil for 10 minutes or so before adding the seafood and turning off the heat. You will love it! I'm an American living in Europe and I bring this Zatarains back from the US when I travel and amaze my EU friends with the results.

I do want to clarify that it wasn’t the Cajuns that created the complexity of these flavors. Creole/Cajun cuisine is a blend of West African, Caribbean, German, French, more recently Vietnamese, and all those people learned from the indigenous how to eat from the lands and waters of Louisiana❤ glad y’all got to experience my culture

I am 55 and have never seen outside of California as an adult. I live here in the USA and my bucket list is to visit the country and try local food. The USA has so much culture to offer and I've missed out all my life. I am SO envious of Josh and Olly who have been lucky enough to make my bucket list an actual job ! That's not even working ! I love it.

It's so touched to see wherever Jolly crew go they always meet the fun, softest, lovely, and kind people. I'm so happy to see the interaction in every video

As a Texas girl, I’m used to potatoes and corn cooked with our crawfish. Yum! And when working for that little bit of crawfish meat, eating is messy as heck! No gloves. You don't notice though because you get in a routine and talk to everyone around the table. I love crab though & this spread is amazing! La food & seasoning are beyond! And Debbie is a sweetheart for showing them how to eat all that seafood.

Ollie gets all his weird thoughts out on the shows, I bet his wife feels better in public with him! Ollie is right in my ballpark!!

As an American I love your videos. Often we take for granted what is around us and it is great to see your infectious energy as you try new things

Debbie reminds me of my family. I love showing people Maryland crabs and how to eat them. If people come from out of town, I try to always order crabs!

Debbie for the win!! That's Louisiana hospitality at its best right there ❤

I love that she says "suck" (like a straw) and Josh immediately tries to turn into a vacuum. 🤣

So proud of Ollie with the oysters. He doesn't hesitate as much anymore with trying them.

So glad you got to experience a taste of Louisiana along with Debbie’s fantastic Southern hospitality! She is a gem for sure! Great video!

I screamed as soon as the vid was rolling. I recognized the restaurant immediately. So cool to see BC presenting you with our best stuff. Thanks for getting the word out about good food.

Ollie is truly a hands-on eater and was thoroughly enjoying the whole process. Thank you jolly.

The thing you guys did perfect about this was having a group of people together, sharing, joking, laughing and chowing down on food. I know that's the basis for a lot of your content, but it's also the basis for a crawfish boil. It's just not complete without sucking juices out of things, getting spices in the wrong places, and joking about it all with friends.

I’m so happy you guys tried a seafood boil type. I was waiting for this. When you get a real seafood boil it’s quite mind blowing!!

Sorry, it's not just Louisiana, though the cuisine there is awesome. But crawfish are a delicacy across the Gulf of Mexico, from east Texas to Pensacola, FL. Two quick stories: In high school, the junior and senior classes have a formal dance with gents in dinner jackets and ladies in nice, expensive dresses. I didn't date my senior year (my crush was involved with an underclassman), so I asked our foreign exchange student, as a good, sweet friend - from Leeds, England - to prom. We were politically opposed but loved to banter in Oxford debate (did I mention I went to a parochial school?). Her host family had an extremely nice, old house in one of our town's historic areas. I went to pick her up and discovered that our prom happened to fall on this family's historic annual crawfish boil. They even printed T-shirts for party-goers. On the back of that year's shirt was a big crawfish head, with (in small font) the event and (in larger font, circling the head) "You Want Me to Suck What?" Classic - could have been straight from the Quarter! My date was pretty cool with everything until her (drunk) host "father" came up to her room. I was pinning a corsage onto her, and he asked, "Did you bring flowers??" Wife: "Yes, Honey - the corsage!" Husband: "Did you bring a condom??" Wife: [QUICKLY ESCORTS PISSED-DRUNK HUSBAND OUT OF THE ROOM]. Awesome! I went to college in Mobile, AL, and had a fraternity brother from Harahan, LA (outside NO) - Irish-Cajun. We had separate dues for our big, weeklong party - but for him, instead of paying dues, his parents would come over with 150lbs. of crawfish (live in 50lb bags, must be live), pots, corn, new potatoes, the whole thing (and kegs). Then one night of the party we would have a massive boil - probably the best night of the fest. Except for the pledges - they had to clean up the backyard the next morning, and by that time the smell had... matured. But all of us were pledges, all of us endured the retching smell in 80-degree heat, with a hangover.

I hope Juno didn’t hear her father saying: “We have the entire cast of the Little Mermaid in front of us.” 😂😂😂

Ollie is so incredibly witty.❤Loved this episode.

Salvo's treats every customer just like this, we eat there often.

I'M SO HAPPY!!! The town they're in is Belle Chasse, Louisiana. Very tiny miniscule town the runs on a highway. We are so invisible. For Britains to be the ones to film here is incredable. FINALLY WE ARE SEEN!!!!!

Can’t get enough of watching your enthusiasm with American cuisine. Keep up the great content you two!

My husband and I worked for LSU for four years, and I fell in love with south Louisiana. I cried when my husband accepted a job at the U of Maryland, and learned to cook the legendary Louisiana Cajun food. I still missed the wonderful people, but was able to take, and share, some of the good things about Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Now we're back in south Texas, but I'll always have a Mardi Gras heart. Glad to see y'all passing such a good time.

I love Josh's optimism and excitement paired with Ollie's absurd and slightly cynical observations...his soft shelled crab comments were hilarious!

I wish y'all had an extras section where it was the part at the end with the crew trying everything and enjoying it.

I like how in New Orleans every restaurant feels like you showed up at someone's mom's house for dinner. No matter the decoration or way people dress, the hospitality vibe is just so freaking friendly.

Born and raised in Louisiana, moved to Texas in 1988. We host boils at our house, otherwise Ive not found a true boil here. Some try, and they are okay (I mean, its crawfish...I'll never turn them down!!), but I do love a REAL boil! Typically at a boil I eill eat 7-10 lbs. on my own. I know they say 3-5 lbs per person, but any self-respecting crawfish lover will eat double that any day! Haha!!! Glad y'all enjoyed that!!

sucking the head is so integral to eating crawfish 😂 i’m so glad ms. debbie educated you guys on how to eat a seafood boil- learning how to eat another culture’s food is just as important as trying it in the first place ❤️

Debbie giving a great example of Louisiana hospitality. If any of yall have never been to Louisiana, ya should come for a visit but be warned, you may not wanna leave 🤣.

Ollie has such an effortless way of assessing the moment, very quick. Ollie could be a good stand up comedian/writer.

Loved seeing Debbie in the back reacting and laughing at their reactions and comments 😂

I can’t believe how fun it is watching two guys eat.

I wasn't counting on seeing my hometown on this channel... ever; however, I'm so glad you guys got to go try Salvo's! I ate there so much as a kid, and they do an amazing job with their seafood.

As someone who lived in New Orleans for 20 years, I can attest to how good this is. Louisiana food is the best food anywhere, hands down!

You know that oyster must be good if Ollie liked it.

I admit I feel a sense of pride when they eat the food here in the US. I hope everyone around the world has a chance to visit us. We have our jerks, but the vast majority of us love meeting people from other countries and sharing our food.

We're crazy about boiled crawfish down here. It's one of our 4 seasons--Summer, football, early summer and crawfish. The downside of growing up on LA seasoning is that the food tastes bland everywhere else.

Omg ",i feel like theres nothing left in the sea." I spit out my coffee. So true

I’m from Texas and my family have been selling live crawfish for 20 years and I’m very glad to see that yall are exploring this side of seafood

I have been waiting SO LONG for you guys to try Creole/Cajun food in Louisiana proper, and this has finally fulfilled the prophecy, LOL! My friends and I literally go to NOLA just to eat on vacation, and we will bring seasonings, and meat, and seafood back with us in coolers because you just can't get those flavors elsewhere. Everything they serve there is so damned good from the seafood to the desserts. And oh my gosh, the people are so welcoming and friendly. NOLA specifically is just one of those cities where if you leave it and you didn't have a good time, you did it wrong, because it's real hard not too.

The JOLLY channel makes me so proud to be a Texas. I have been eating crawfish, and a lot of the foods they try my whole life, but I've never really understood how lucky I've been. Thank you for trying so much food! It really is THAT GOOD!

Ollie’s jokes 😅😅😅😅 it’s amazing what seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is different. Also, Louisiana boils tend to be a social event because it takes so long to eat unless you’re a pro at peeling and don’t need to take a break from the heat. I’m so happy to see oysters prepared for you guys in this style and seeing Boudin, I miss Boudin, it’s tough to find outside of Louisiana, where small shops make their own. Wish this were longer. Sending love to you and yours from Orlando Florida

I’ve lived in a city close to New Orleans my entire life and crawfish season is THE HOLIDAY we always wait for

Olly is hilarious and adding Josh's facial expressions it simply wonderful! ❤❤❤❤

Debbie was exactly how most people are in Nola. That’s why I fell in love with that city from the first time I visited. The food is amazing. The people are amazing. The architecture and history is rich. I mean I could just go on!!

Would love to see a video of you guys doing this on your own at home! Seafood boils aren’t limited to what you saw there. We do low country boils with shrimp, scallops, potato, corn, and sausage. It’s the best!

This brought me joy. We did a crawfish boil for our backyard wedding and it was just so relaxed and amazing. True Louisiana community around that table.

One of the best meals of my life. Buddy of mine and I on a cross country motorcycle trip. Stopped at a bar on the coast in Biloxi. Asked the bartender best place to get crawfish. He sends us inland about 15-20 miles to a strip mall with a convenient store, laundry and auto shop. The convenient store had a boil on out back with a line 15-20 people. We lined up and when our turn we asked how many pounds for two hungry guys? The gal behind the counter takes a cardboard six pack tray designed to hold 24 beers and lines it with a clean garbage bag. She then scoops 10 lbs of huge bright red mud bugs into the bag. Eyes wide we pull up ‘Al fresco’ sitting on the sidewalk by our bikes and dig into the delicious boil with some tall boy Abita’s and go to town. Absolutely amazing and memorable meal!

I love how excited they are! Cajun seafood boils are the best!!!! Good job guys! Yall did great!