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If peeling your own crawfish seems like too much work during
vacation, don't panic. There are numerous other festival foods
available. Without trying to sound like Bubba in Forest Gump,
this is what you'll find  in
the way of crawfish: crawfish étouffée,
crawfish gumbo, crawfish pie (right), crawfish bisque, crawfish
boudin, crawfish hotdogs, crawfish on a stick, fried crawfish
tails, crawfish fettuccini, crawfish
pistolettes and more.
If you need to stray from crawfish for a while, there are
also shrimp, crab, fish and meat dishes, plus all of your
standard fair fare (corndogs, fried onion blossoms, funnel
cakes, cotton candy, popcorn) at the carnival. And you'll
find plenty of beer, lemonade, and frozen cocktails to wash
it all down.
Most festivals—especially those with the amount of music
you'll find at the Crawfish Festival—will put you in
the poorhouse with their $5 beers and $4 hot dogs. In contrast,
the Crawfish Festival was a bargain. The first day, we sipped
giant frozen margaritas at $5 at pop (still perfectly reasonable
for the super size), but we quickly switched course when we
found the $1 Hops beer about 50 yards away. Other than the
boiled crawfish ($8, including potato), all of the festival
food hovered between $3 - $5.
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