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Tiny freshwater lobsters that taste like a party and fight like one too.
means A small freshwater crustacean resembling a tiny lobster, eaten especially in Cajun and Southern cooking — also called crayfish or crawdad.
from A wonderful mangling of the Old French 'crevice' (meaning crab), which English borrowed and then misheard. The '-vice' ending got reshaped into '-fish,' even though the creature isn't a fish at all — folk logic deciding that anything living in water must surely be one. The 'crawfish' spelling is the older form that stuck in American and especially Southern speech, while Britain drifted toward 'crayfish.' As a verb, 'to crawfish' — meaning to back out or retreat — comes from watching the animal scoot backward when threatened.
- swims backward
- Flicks its tail to dart away in reverse
- blue blood
- Copper-based blood runs clear, turns blue with oxygen
- land builders
- Some dig mud chimneys feet deep in fields
- regrows limbs
- Lost claws and legs grow back over molts
- cajun ritual
- Louisiana eats over 100 million pounds yearly
louisiana crawfish boil — annual tradition in new orleans where locals boil millions of pounds of crawfish each spring season
atchafalaya river crawfish — world's largest crawfish fishery in louisiana's atchafalaya basin, producing 90% of us crawfish