CREEPING CRAYFISH CONTINUED or HOW TO EARN STYLE POINTS AT A CRAWFISH BOIL

Not only are crayfish interesting (didn’t you read yesterday’s post?) but they are also YUMMY!  If you haven’t attended a crawfish boil, then you need to weasel your way into an invite.  (Yes, I switched the common name.  I've only gone to crawfish boils...not crayfish boils and I'm going to honor the host's verbiage) At a crawfish boil you eat the tail and suck the heads.  Eating the tail is easy.  You are eating the large adductor muscle in the abdomen.  To achieve this (and earn style points), rip off the abdomen, squeeze the base of the uropod (fan on the butt), and use your teeth to bite the muscle and pull it out.  Then you suck the head.  That doesn’t really have style points.  Most folks can figure that out.  But, warning… inside the head of the crayfish are two green, pea-shaped glands at the base of the antennae.  These are “green glands” (good name huh?) that are used as excretory glands.  Yep, that is a fancy way of saying they can pee out their heads. Now, with your new-found knowledge of the head peeing ability of crayfish, you may elect not to suck the heads.  That is fine.  I would advise, from personal experience, that you do not explain this randomly to other folks at the crayfish boil.  You will not get invited back and that would be sad.