In article >,
Bryan > wrote:

> Tell you another awful beer, Dixie.

Don't think I've ever tried Dixie's pale beers, but when we lived in
North Carolina, we would sometimes buy Blackened Voodoo. It's a bit on
the cloying-sweet side, but good for washing down spicy BBQ.

> A guy in New Orleans
> declared me an honorary Coonass because I ate about a half pound of mudbugs
> and sucked the heads of every one, accompanied by a 6 pack of Dixie.

Sounds like a good time to me. We now live in the metro Seattle area,
and recently moved to a house on the banks of the Sammamish River.
There are mudbugs in there, and I'm thinking to go looking for some when
summer comes. People also get them from Lake Washington. Local
restaurants and fish shops sometimes have local crawfish, but not often.
I guess it must be hard to make a profit catching these guys.

Our local species of mudbug are actually fatter and tastier than the
ones caught in the South.

Last weekend, I watched on otter diving in the river and munching on
something. A good sign.

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Julian Vrieslander