I may never eat a crawdad
 

let alone suck the juice out of a crawdad's head, but I love my La hotlink sandwitches.

when I was a kid I had my first hotlink. It was sooo good, but soooooo hot. We have a place here where the links are mild, really good.

I saw on the menu they have catfish. I never ate catfish before. Thinking of trying it

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Catfish are mud suckers. YUCK!

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I love Catfish deep fried with corn bread.

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I heard catfish has to be prepared a special way in order for it to taste good. Is that true?

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I only ate Catfish with my girlfriend from Oregons family. They prepared it.
I have also eaten it at restaurant up here so I never prepared it nor am an expert on it, but it is delicious!:thumbsup

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Cindy..... you don't eat catfish because they are mud suckers? Do you eat hen eggs? :foottap

QuitThinkin

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Prax,

Ask for blackened catfish... great stuff...

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Catfish is great...so are crawdads...

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hahaha

No, I don't eat any fish or seafood. I sure don't eat rooster eggs either.......I'm so funny.

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Prax, most places I've ever been that cook catfish cook it so it tastes really good. Preparation isn't that difficult, IMO, but it is pretty fishy tasting if someone doesn't know what they are doing... believe me on that. First time I cooked any, I learned my lesson.

No matter how catfish is prepared, it does have a stronger flavor than other fish, it seems like to me. I've never had it blackened, but that sounds good. At home I broil it with lemon and herbs, but I love it fried, especially with a little hot sauce in the batter.

Yum!

Crawdads aren't bad either, but there sure isn't much meat in a crawdad. :)

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:toofunny

No one in their right mind eats rooster eggs. Crawdads and catfish, though, those are good stuff! :thumbsup

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A lot of time spent in Louisiana and Mississippi as a child put me off crawdads or catfish eating. Loved to catch them though.

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Cindy, did you ever see a catfish?.......


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How'd he hold his pole? :ursofunny That was funny, wasn't it?

Cat fish???

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Prax,
I used to manage a Piccadilly, HQ Baton Rough. Catfish and crawdads were daily fare. What your talking about "sucking heads" is the boiled crawfish. But you can also get peeled and packaged. You should try them if you like shrimp, crawdads and shrimp are interchangeable in recipes. IMO you can't beat crawfish, Jambalaya, or Scampi.
If you have pond raised catfish, that stops the fear of eating the bottom feeders. If you like them fried, while they are still frozen, bread them in cor meal seasoned with salt, and plenty of red pepper.

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Eat the crawdads the meat in the head.They are good,but you have to eat alot of them to get to alot of meat,kinda like eat squirrel or rabbit.

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:ursofunny

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Well they do look like miniature lobsters...

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I love hot links, too! So yummy, especially with a little bbq sauce.

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Yup, and normally I don't care for BBQ sauce on anything but BBQ potato chips hehe.

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I have eaten all kinds of things. Crawfish are good but I would rather have lobster any day.


I went to this festival a couple years ago... they weren't anything to write home about.

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I love all seafood. But nothing beats high-quality raw fish.

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Nothing beats a walleye....but catfish, espescially pond raised can be prepared properley and quite tasty.

Friday night catfish fries are big around here.

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When I first came down out of the hills to the Missouri/Mississippi River region someone announced they were going to have a "catfish dinner." I had eaten catfish before; wasn't a big fan but wasn't grossed out either.

When they slid a catfish steak onto my plate I was confused, to say the least. All the fried catfish I had ever seen looked like something like a fish - in it's general outline. I was expecting a "whole" cleaned and fried catfish about 10" - 12" long, or so. Instead I got a slab of catfish meat bigger than any catfish I had ever caught.

Took me a while of considering before I realized that catfish grow A LOT bigger in larger bodies of water. Then I sort of laughed at myself. Didn't like the fish too much, but wasn't grossed out too much either.

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Put a little ketchup on it and its great.

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For a while it seemed, every time some out of town politician or foreign dignitary came to town the local papers had to have a picture of the out-of-towners being force-fed "oysters."

No wonder they didn't hold the Olympics here.