On Thursday, February 28, 2013 12:45:33 PM UTC-6, Julian Vrieslander wrote:
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> Bryan > wrote:
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> > Tell you another awful beer, Dixie.
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> Don't think I've ever tried Dixie's pale beers, but when we lived in
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> North Carolina, we would sometimes buy Blackened Voodoo. It's a bit on
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> the cloying-sweet side, but good for washing down spicy BBQ.
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> > A guy in New Orleans
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> > declared me an honorary Coonass because I ate about a half pound of mudbugs
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> > and sucked the heads of every one, accompanied by a 6 pack of Dixie.
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> Sounds like a good time to me. We now live in the metro Seattle area,
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> and recently moved to a house on the banks of the Sammamish River.
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> There are mudbugs in there, and I'm thinking to go looking for some when
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> summer comes. People also get them from Lake Washington. Local
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> restaurants and fish shops sometimes have local crawfish, but not often.
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> I guess it must be hard to make a profit catching these guys.
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> Our local species of mudbug are actually fatter and tastier than the
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The cleaner the water, the better tasting the crawdads.
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> Last weekend, I watched on otter diving in the river and munching on
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> something. A good sign.
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Last Summer or the one before, we were out at this creek and there was this kid catching a bunch of them, and his father reached into the bucket and pulled one out and ate it alive. This place is less than an hour from St. Louis. Jeez.
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> Julian Vrieslander

--Bryan