No mud bugs for me sorry. I know you have to boil the crap out of them. (literally) Just to eat them.
@friday1: Not quite true. We always purged our crawfish before boiling them. We put the live crawfish in a big tub filled with clean cool water. We added a lot of salt and the crawfish would regurgitate swamp water and anything they had recently eaten. Then we put them in the spiced boiling water, brought the water back to a boil for a few minutes, then just shut the heat off and let them soak for a while. We would spray water on the outside of the pot to cool down the water/crawfish (overcooking makes the meat mushy). Then dump them out on a table covered in newspaper, grab a beer, and have at it. Removing the "vein" or "poop chute" from the tail of the crawfish meat was optional. Eat the meat, then suck the head!
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