Eating mud bugs.

[phalanx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7M5MSPv_8c   

We just got a Cajun store that sells them. Fish ,shrimp, oysters in the half shell. So far they are selling out. 

[BUGEYE]

I've eaten many crawdad tails but never sucked their guts.

We seined them for trotline bait and any leftover were cooked.

I still have a crawdad rake out in my shop.

[Lloyd Smale]

i love crawdads and yup you have to suck the juice. Not doing so is like putting 7 up in moonshine. I havent had them in years. We get some crayfish up here. But they just dont taste the same and its pretty tough to scrounge enough for a meal. They kind of have a different flavor and most cook them in fresh dill weed to get rid of it. But cooked right there pretty good.

[ironglow]

  My son and I were called to cover a crawdad event at Conesus Lake, western most of the Finger Lakes.  It was
 held by a wealthy real estate owner, at one of his lake retreats. The host had flown iced crawdads and a Louisiana chef to prepare them.
 
   They were cooked with salt potatoes, and when asked how I liked them, best I could offer was that I enjoyed
    the salt potatoes.  Perhaps I should have been more tactful, but I was not about to lie, so complimenting
     the potatoes was the best I could do.

   It may be just me, but I thought they tasted like the mud they came out of..

[BUGEYE]

  My son and I were called to cover a crawdad event at Conesus Lake, western most of the Finger Lakes.  It was
 held by a wealthy real estate owner, at one of his lake retreats. The host had flown iced crawdads and a Louisiana chef to prepare them.
 
   They were cooked with salt potatoes, and when asked how I liked them, best I could offer was that I enjoyed
    the salt potatoes.  Perhaps I should have been more tactful, but I was not about to lie, so complimenting
     the potatoes was the best I could do.

   It may be just me, but I thought they tasted like the mud they came out of..

They have to run around in a cooler or something for a couple of days in a few changes of water to get rid of mud etc.

We did our crawdad raking in the spring when the ditches along farm roads would be full of water and the bugs would move out of the bottom land fields.    We got some big ones then, and smaller ones later in the year.

[Buckskin]

I love mudbugs and yes suck the heads!

I used to order about 30 lbs every July, 8 lbs went in the freezer to be killed/salt brined and used in a sheephead fishing tourney and 22 lbs went for a boil for our family.  Now the DNR forbids the shipping of live crawdad's to Wisconsin, so don't fish the contest anymore and don't get one of my favorite meals every summer...

Crawdad's are the magic bait for sheephead, hard to find locally big enough or enough to make it worthwhile entering the contest.  My biggest was 15lbs and we would routinely enter 10 lbs averages for weigh in.

[Casull]

i love crawdads and yup you have to suck the juice. Not doing so is like putting 7 up in moonshine. I havent had them in years. We get some crayfish up here. But they just dont taste the same and its pretty tough to scrounge enough for a meal. They kind of have a different flavor and most cook them in fresh dill weed to get rid of it. But cooked right there pretty good.

Lloyd, now that shocks me.  After saying you wouldn't eat a deer heart because it was "guts", you voluntarily suck the guts out of a crawdad.  I would eat the tails or a large claw, but no way would I suck the guts out of one of those things.

[BUGEYE]

i love crawdads and yup you have to suck the juice. Not doing so is like putting 7 up in moonshine. I havent had them in years. We get some crayfish up here. But they just dont taste the same and its pretty tough to scrounge enough for a meal. They kind of have a different flavor and most cook them in fresh dill weed to get rid of it. But cooked right there pretty good.

Lloyd, now that shocks me.  After saying you wouldn't eat a deer heart because it was "guts", you voluntarily suck the guts out of a crawdad.  I would eat the tails or a large claw, but no way would I suck the guts out of one of those things.

Yeah, only the uncivilized suck out the guts.

[Bob Riebe]

I am quite allergic to shell fish, and cannot eat them, but often I wish I could when I see other pigging out.

[BUGEYE]

I am quite allergic to shell fish, and cannot eat them, but often I wish I could when I see other pigging out.

I've read that it can be deadly to those with the allergy, and it's too bad because it's delicious.
Sorry.

[Buckskin]

i love crawdads and yup you have to suck the juice. Not doing so is like putting 7 up in moonshine. I havent had them in years. We get some crayfish up here. But they just dont taste the same and its pretty tough to scrounge enough for a meal. They kind of have a different flavor and most cook them in fresh dill weed to get rid of it. But cooked right there pretty good.

Lloyd, now that shocks me.  After saying you wouldn't eat a deer heart because it was "guts", you voluntarily suck the guts out of a crawdad.  I would eat the tails or a large claw, but no way would I suck the guts out of one of those things.

That shocks me that Lloyd doesn't eat the heart! I've literally traded loin for heart and would every time, but most just give it to me without knowing how good it is.  Heart is far better than any other part of the deer.  You have no idea what you are missing.

You don't really suck the innards out, just the juice.  But I do admit that I love it when i get the liverish organ when I do it...

[BUGEYE]

I do admit that I love it when i get the liverish organ when I do it...

I guess I can't say anything because I've eaten a jillion squirrel squirrel brains and brains and eggs the morning after hog killing.

[ironglow]

Organ meats..
  I eat the heart..that's just muscle..

  As a kid i ate kidney stew or gravy..a unique flavor.  But I don't anymore, nor do I eat liver.  However, if the
   left gets their way, we all maybe forced to eat organ meat.if we are to get any meat at all !    

     My veterinarian friend says the liver is the "septic tank of the body", as are the kidneys in another way.
      Although I do confess to buying a pound of liverwurst about once a year..

  Won't touch brains or spinal cord..  Nerve tissue is the repository for CWD and rabies etc.

[Dee]

Crawfish boils are a part the culture food where I grew up. They throw in ears of corn, taters, spices, ect. If they throw shrimp in, I'll eat the taters, corn,  and shrimp.

Crawfish are safe around me unless I'm catfishing.

[ironglow]

  At the boil, we who were unfamiliar with the thing, were instructed to eat only the ones that curled from cooking.

  I guess the ones that didn't curl, were already dead before cooking..

  Of course, they only mentioned it after the eating started.. glad I was very slow to participate.  i do wonder if the pre-dead ones were toxic.

  Talking to my son the other night..he confessed he didn't even try the critters.

[Dee]

They stink worse cooked than alive, and after you peel a few, it's hard to wash off the smell. 

[Lloyd Smale]

ya ill have to plead hypocritic on that one. Ill eat me some raw oysters too. But you couldnt get me to eat sushi. I tried a piece of raw fish a couple times and about gagged.

i love crawdads and yup you have to suck the juice. Not doing so is like putting 7 up in moonshine. I havent had them in years. We get some crayfish up here. But they just dont taste the same and its pretty tough to scrounge enough for a meal. They kind of have a different flavor and most cook them in fresh dill weed to get rid of it. But cooked right there pretty good.

Lloyd, now that shocks me.  After saying you wouldn't eat a deer heart because it was "guts", you voluntarily suck the guts out of a crawdad.  I would eat the tails or a large claw, but no way would I suck the guts out of one of those things.

[Lloyd Smale]

I dont keep hearts. But ive ate it. Its eatible but ill take back straps on the grill anyday. Liver? You couldnt hold me down and make me eat it. My parents used to try to make us eat it when we were young and finaly gave up and all my sisters hate it to to this day. My buddy i crop damage shoot with takes the hearts though. He just grinds them up and uses it with his summer sausage. I guess that would work. You could use dog meat in summer sauage and nobody would know.

i love crawdads and yup you have to suck the juice. Not doing so is like putting 7 up in moonshine. I havent had them in years. We get some crayfish up here. But they just dont taste the same and its pretty tough to scrounge enough for a meal. They kind of have a different flavor and most cook them in fresh dill weed to get rid of it. But cooked right there pretty good.

Lloyd, now that shocks me.  After saying you wouldn't eat a deer heart because it was "guts", you voluntarily suck the guts out of a crawdad.  I would eat the tails or a large claw, but no way would I suck the guts out of one of those things.

That shocks me that Lloyd doesn't eat the heart! I've literally traded loin for heart and would every time, but most just give it to me without knowing how good it is.  Heart is far better than any other part of the deer.  You have no idea what you are missing.

You don't really suck the innards out, just the juice.  But I do admit that I love it when i get the liverish organ when I do it...

[Lloyd Smale]

aaaaaaaaaaa NOPE!!!

I do admit that I love it when i get the liverish organ when I do it...

I guess I can't say anything because I've eaten a jillion squirrel squirrel brains and brains and eggs the morning after hog killing.

[Buckskin]

ya ill have to plead hypocritic on that one. Ill eat me some raw oysters too. But you couldnt get me to eat sushi. I tried a piece of raw fish a couple times and about gagged. [quote author=Casull l


Lloyd, now that shocks me.  After saying you wouldn't eat a deer heart because it was "guts", you voluntarily suck the guts out of a crawdad.  I would eat the tails or a large claw, but no way would I suck the guts out of one of those things.

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I really like eating raw stuff, if someone somewhere eats it raw I will give it a try.   When I'm butchering deer or making dinner I will often eat a chunk of raw loin or heart, it really has a wonderful flavor. Same goes for most fish that I catch, especially trout or salmon and fish eggs.  I make my own caviar as well, basically just remove sac, add salt and let sit for a while. I made a batch from a flathead this spring that was excellent.

[Mule 11]

My Stepdad would soak things in lemon even liver and eat it with salt and pepper raw. He called it cooking it...

[ironglow]

  Liver IS a good source of iron...but it is the other things it is a good source of, that bothers me..