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Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:55 pm to jlovel7
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Lobsters were once food so reviled by the public it was given to prisoners in the 1700s. Now it’s a delicacy.
Lobster was absurdly abundant, which is why it was reviled. When people start eating plain steamed crawfish tails with drawn butter, I’ll entertain the comparison. As is, every part of the process of preparing crawfish is meant to make it taste as little like the original meat as possible. It’s the equivalent of marinating a dry aged steak in thousand island dressing and then dipping it in ketchup.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:55 pm to Joshjrn
The cost is because it's a seasonal product that's only produced in only a small part of the country. But I'm sure a smart guy like you already knew that.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:56 pm to Trevaylin
Still $2.99 live in mccomb according to crawfish app
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 9:57 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:57 pm to Seldom Seen
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The cost is because it's a seasonal product that's only produced in only a small part of the country. But I'm sure a smart guy like you already knew that.
Yep. I’m not saying I don’t understand the supply and demand dynamic; I’m saying I’ve never understood why people are willing to pay the kind of prices they do for boiled crawfish.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:59 pm to Joshjrn
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I’m saying I’ve never understood why people are willing to pay the kind of prices they do for boiled crawfish.
You can buy them cheaper live and boil them yourself
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:00 pm to upgrayedd
Before y’all start spewing crap about crawfish farmers y’all might want to get yalls facts right. I’m a crawfish farmer and have been getting $2.00lb for live crawfish from the fields since mid January. It’s the boil n gos and the restaurants that mark it up to $6.00lb. That’s the ones y’all need to be mad at.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:02 pm to Joshjrn
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Crawfish are gutter food that should be cheap. That’s why my poor as frick Cajun ancestors ate them to begin with. People paying luxury prices for crawfish have always blown my mind.
What about boudin, cracklin, etc?
I buy less these days because it feels like novelty/tourist prices.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:03 pm to tgrbaitn08
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You can buy them cheaper live and boil them yourself
I’m aware
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:04 pm to wheelr
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What about boudin, cracklin, etc?
I buy less these days because it feels like novelty/tourist prices.
I haven’t noticed boudin prices getting crazy out of hand, at least not in your small country places. I’ll admit to being ignorant on the price of cracklin.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:04 pm to TDcline
I'm as sick and tired as the next guy with all this "please support your local blah blah blah" shite. As if every other business somehow isn't struggling. But the government artificially suppressing demand isn't exactly capitalism.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:05 pm to SWLA92
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I’m a crawfish farmer and have been getting $2.00lb for live crawfish from the fields since mid January.
How much does that price fluctuate throughout the season? And what drives the fluctuations? I’m genuinely curious
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:07 pm to Joshjrn
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I’ll admit to being ignorant on the price of cracklin.
The last price I remember seeing was $18/pound.
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:07 pm to SWLA92
I am there for you bubba. last Saturday I joined a group raising money for the local high school senior class. about 6000 lbs of good ones boiled by 24 competing groups. lots of people 20 mph wind off the gulf kept the corona exposure to beer
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:10 pm to Trevaylin
Not a flag waiving conservative, but Coronavirus ain’t gonna keep me from consuming my usual load of crawfish
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:10 pm to Trevaylin
I’ve heard the juice and fat sucked out of the heads cures the Corona.
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:14 pm to wheelr
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The last price I remember seeing was $18/pound.
How big of a bag is a pound? Those things don’t weigh much
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:18 pm to jlovel7
Yea and poor boys use to cost $.15
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:22 pm to Trevaylin
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prices are tumbling.
Finally
Posted on 3/17/20 at 10:24 pm to Hickok
It fluctuates randomly but usually on a Monday the price gets set and sometimes won’t drop for a few weeks sometimes it drops every week $.25-$.50 per week. Beginning of the year it’s usually $3-$3.50lb out the field then it declines gradually through the season until after Lent. The demand goes away and they are harder to get rid of. So the price usually falls below $1.00.
This post was edited on 3/17/20 at 10:26 pm
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