However, crawfish are crabby Crustaceans by nature, ornery little critters with a skin of armor and Edward Scissorhand pinchers. They are sometimes ornery even after they become deceased, as they can be difficult to eat and ever-capable of inflicting bleeding wounds in the fingers of their consumers. Nora the Hun, of course, is a master when it comes to eating crawfish. For people who ve never eaten boiled crawfish before, the finger-pricking task of digging meat out of the tail and the concept of sucking spices out of a crawfish head might make this unique dining experience seem to be more trouble than it s worth. However, with a little instruction, a lot of practice and enough beer, anyone can learn to enjoy boiled crawfish.
Some people can even enjoy unboiled crawfish.
Kid people, in particular, are endlessly fascinated with crawfish so long as they are alive and still capable of being imprisoned in cups, prodded with sticks and used to terrorize other kids and even some adults. As I filled up one, two, three large trash cans with crawfish corpses, I was struck by the barbaric nature of our eating habits. The food chain certainly doesn t gain civility as it gains height. We at the top are really no less primitive than those on the lower rungs. The only difference is that we cook what we kill before eating it.