A kid and a crawfish, a match made in Heaven

Growing up in Indiana, these were crayfish. You found them hiding in the mud by the creek and they were fun to play with.

In Texas they're called crawfish. You have them at crawfish boils. At this particular boil the host had pounds and pounds of crawfish in a big white cooler. He covered them in salt and rinsed them off. Covered them in zatarans. Then by the pot full immersed them in boiling water. You pull off the heads (some people suck the heads) and free the meat from the tail. By the end of the night you're thumb is all messed up and bloody from shelling so many. Put that together with potatoes, corn, garlic, lemons and sausage and you have a down home Houston Crawfish Boil.

My youngest tried to free this big guy. Wanted to bring him home.