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Although the festival is as much about music and fun as crawfish,
there's still plenty to eat, and people eating everywhere
you look. You can't walk far without being tempted with something
to eat, drink or buy.
The sweetheart of the crawfish festival, of course, is just
plain crawfish. Boiled
in seasoned water along with the potatoes that accompany them,
crawfish at the festival are served in heaping Styrofoam trays.
 Eight
bucks buys you a tray of mudbugs piled over a boiled red potato,
served just as you see here. If you want some extra spice,
shaker cans of Tony Chachere's seasoning and bottles of hot
sauce litter the tables. The crawfish are eaten standing around
long bars (above) and sit-down tables with clever crawfish
chutes cut out of the center (right), or just anywhere folks
can grab some shade and a seat. As you peel them, you toss
the carcasses into the chute (where they fall into the garbage
bag below) or the lid of your tray. Eating crawfish is messy
business (here's a how-to),
so there are even a few big plastic sinks where you can wash
up.
If peeling your own crawfish seems like too much work while
on vacation, don't panic... (more)
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