Crawfish. I usually only get them the way I like, at our annual Cajun Festival. I haven’t found a place, that makes them just right, in Charleston. Only a specific vendor, who is always at Cajun Fest, makes them how I like them. I take advantage, and eat a couple hundred. I usually spend about $80, on them. In fact, I usually spend almost $200 at each festival. I won’t eat, for two days, before the festival.
My mother usually cooks a duck, to perfection, on Thanksgiving day. That’s typically the only time I eat that too…
It used to be the same, with gator tail. But. A friend of mine, got a good source of the meat, and we would eat it a few times a year.
It’s one of the more difficult things, to cook just right. He soaks the meat, in orange juice, for a day or so. Then blackens, or fries it. Without the soaking, it’s gamey, and rubbery. He’s got it down, to a science…
I love eating alligator. You are what you eat. I’m happy to have as much gator protein in my body, as I can get.
Parts of my body, are made of gator. I like that. I feel (perhaps baseless,) that it keeps me tough…