"U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:15:51 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>>notbob wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On 2017-11-10, cshenk > wrote:
>>>
>>> > I've lived a few places where crawfish/crawdads were common. Here
>>> > isnt one of them and where you are probably isnt either.
>>>
>>> Yep. Not a lotta crawdads at this elevation.
>>>
>>> What was really strange, was when I still lived in CA. The CA Delta
>>> has millions of crawdads, but they're all saturated with mercury from
>>> the CA Goldrush era. Hence, we seldom eat 'em.
>>>
>>> One of the biggest crawdad festivals, on the West Coast, is out on the
>>> CA Delta in the small town of Isleton:
>>>
>>> http://www.isletoncoc.org/crawdad.html
>>>
>>> Those crawdads are all "imported" from Louisiana. We can even
>>> occassionally get crawdad and conch meat, here, on sale at our local
>>> beef butcher at a decent price. (the beef prices, here, are
>>> absurd)
>>>
>>> nb

We lived in Rio Vista for 15 years a few short miles from Isleton, we always
bought our crawdads from Phil Clark's crawdad business in town for crawdad
feeds. Crawdads are not my favorite food, but our friends loved them, and I
did not like the Crawdad Festival which was usually a huge drunken mess with
rowdy people and lots of fighting.

Cheri