Brits React to Brits try Louisiana Crawfish Boil for the first time!

[@hatleyhoward7193]

The potatoes and corn are also cooked in the spices and it’s so freaking delicious. We also do boiled shrimp in the Cajun seasoning.

[@philmakris8507]

Crayfish are not prawns, they are more of a small freshwater lobster.

[@jeffhampton2767]

Crayfish or crawfish remind me of water bugs

[@ScottieRC]

I typed almost an identical comment, then read your’s and deleted mine! 😅

[@Steve-hq4fm]

Crawfish. Not cray.

[@SherriLyle80s]

In the south, they are crawfish 😊

[@philmakris8507]

Semantics.

[@paulinesoares3594]

Here in New Orleans, we use spices for our boil. Crawfish are not prawns. That’s more like big shrimp. Crawfish are more like small lobster.

[@kayk9895]

It's mad to me, Brits live on an ISLAND, but so many of them view seafood as being so foreign and uncomfortable...it's hard to comprehend why

[@thezachari]

From South Louisiana born and raised, and I love seeing people globally checking out our culture and food.

[@YellaBellaReno]

I recommend New Orleans to everyone I meet abroad who has never been to the US. They often talk about NYC or LA or Miami, which are all great… but I still recommend New Orleans. Although, I always gotta worn the Brits in particular about the humidity in the summer. 😂 I’m excited to take my partner later this year, as he’s never been, and I know he’ll really enjoy it. I love that city.

[@nathanmclaughlin304]

Im from about 35 miles north of New Orleans. Boiled crawfish and Blue crabs are the height of cajun cuisine. I usually eat about 7 pounds in a sitting. 1 and a half trays. My friend came down from Chicago and was amazed at how efficiently we can peel tha tail and suck the heads and move on the the next one. We were eating 5 for everyone he peeled. Growing up here, you learn very young how to do that, and by the time you are 21, you're an expert. You peel for the kids at the table so you can peel one for yourself and one for your kid without noticing a lull in eating. Boiled crawfish and crabs are my #1 favorite thing to eat. Especially for Easter. This years been a rough year, tho since prices are high due to demand and shortages because of salt water incursions into traditional fishing areas.

[@Ira88881]

I’m in Florida, but follow the crawfish news. Weren’t they optimistic about this season? And even opened the season early?

[@nathanmclaughlin304]

@Ira88881 Yea but the weather had different plans. The farm raised crawfish wasnt as impacted but the normal fishing grounds were impacted from storm surge into brackish and then freshwater fishing areas that caused some die off. Farm raised or pond raised arent as big as those in the spillway basin for instance. And that salt water being pushed into freshwater areas of the spillway causes a lot of problems. We use lots of salt to purge crawfish before a boil. They do not like salt and it impacts their eco system heavily. So storms pushing water in from the gulf has a harsh impact. Doesnt have to be a hurricane to bring in enough saltwater to cause issues either.

[@getonwithit.2847]

Crawfish etouffee was my gateway dish to cajun cuisine.

[@williamarmstrong7007]

I'm at our family crawfish boil with 500 lbs also some shrimp, potatoes, onions, mushrooms and pineapple all boiled with the spice season

[@Ira88881]

We can’t easily get them live in South Florida, but we used to have a crawfish festival every year…they trucked them in live…and I would never miss it. Food of the Gods.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

it still baffles me how a tiny little island nation can detest seafood so much

[@Ridley369]

What's weird is, they didn't used to. Shellfish, and seafood was the norm, especially for coastal Britain. I don't know what in the world happened to them in recent decades..

[@thomasblack3675]

Him sucking the lobster head was hilarious!😂💯

[@williamarmstrong7007]

Crawfish heads not lobster

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@williamarmstrong7007 right but in the video, Ollie sucked the lobster head to see if it was similar and it.. wasn't, lol.

[@michaelhenault1444]

American cooking is very diverse. Louisiana food is regionally unique, but available in larger cities anywhere. Soft shell crabs are even available at Japanese restaurants. There's much more to Cajun cooking N'Oleans Creole is another thing entirely. Feel sorry for the English taste buds.

[@scottdarden3091]

Sauce!!!!!!!! If you ever need sauce on any thing!!!!! You didn't coo 14:31 k it right!!!! Having said that I will dip boiled shrimp in the cocktail sauce at a restaurant, but that's just because they didn't cook it right 😂😂

[@Kim-427]

You’re right about that that! Lol I’ve noticed that many from the UK call everything sauce. They call ketchup sauce. The butter you use for shrimp and lobster is not a sauce. They need sauce on many things because their food doesn’t have flavor. They think we Americans like sauce on everything like they do but it’s for a different reason. We like sauces because they taste good with our food. Unlike them they need it to give their food flavor because some of it is bland.

[@Ameslan1]

You can order crawfish already shelled without the heads and all especially if the crawfish is in a stew like ettouffee or a soup like gumbo.

[@KTKacer]

I like crab a BIT more, tho, tbh, it's more of a texture thing than anything. Definitely wouldn't turn down Lobster tho. Fight your demons man, do at least ONE crawdad head. It's an endorphin & enkephalin thing w/ sucking the heads, you DO get a tiny bit 'high'. (But totally legal). The Caribbeans cook well too, for sure. Good reaction, you two.

[@58rsm]

Prawns (shrimp) are salt water animals. Crawfish are fresh water. Totally different tastes.

[@Perfectly_Cromulent351]

Prawns and shrimp are two different species. Both can live in fresh or saltwater, but most shrimp that are consumed are from saltwater and most prawns that are consumed are from freshwater.

[@paulayala4816]

Every year for Mardis Gras, my old coworker, who was Cajun, would have a crawfish boil at his place. First I could never figure out where he got the fresh crawfish (that and King Cake) from, but he had it flown in from Louisiana. Eating crawfish has a more social aspect to it and you're gonna get messy, your'e gonna get those around you messy. I found myself drinking way more beer than usual and having a really great time while eating some awesome food.

[@SherriLyle80s]

My mother and grandfather are born and raised in New Orleans and these boils are common. If we visit family in Northern Virginia, its the same pretty much except it's Old Bay Seasoning and Blue Crabs instead of Crawfish. All are cooked with an intense amount if seasonings, corn, red potatoes, etc. It's sooo good. Roll out the newspaper, get out the butter knife and a wooden mallet!

[@billywix7313]

Hello Yass and fats, The spices in Cajun cooking (Louisiana style) foods pack a spicy punch. You can even add more heat if you like. I also enjoy the Gumbo’s, Creole’s and Étouffée.

[@BigMoore1232]

I pray over my food before i eat it. We have an appreciation for it.

[@valerieburris607]

This is Louisiana,there are people from all over the country buying seafood and taking it back home with them . if you think about it .the crawfish is in the lobster family.

[@raymorphis5714]

guys in the american south central states you can just go fishing for the crawfish with a pole string and bacon for bait with a net. find a creek with a little water flow and lots of rock and just toss it in . Bout an hour or two you can get a big bucket full.

[@MrMmitch32]

Seafood all along the coast of the US is different. Just considering the crustacean in the East coast down to the South you have Lobsters dominating the Northeast, Blue crabs in the East and Crawfish in the South regions. As far as seasoning, go get the Old Bay if you are in the East and the Cajun seasoning rules the South. It’s all delicious and you really realize how diverse the US is when you travel just one coast. Being from VA, give me a seafood boil (blue, queen or king crab and shrimp) with old bay and beer, corn, potatoes and sausage. Omg my mouth is watering 🤤

[@flashxdoe295]

you quicky turned into some of my favorite reactors :)

[@yassandfats]

Thanks 🙏

[@norwegianblue2017]

The thing I liked best when I traveled to Louisian were the oysters. They are massive and cheap and taste delicious. One of my favorite things is to have them deep fried in a Po'Boy sandwich. A friend of mine took me to the back end of a market where the locals went. You would never know it was even there as a tourist. Took them out to a bench by the river and devoured it. Maybe the best sandwich I ever had in my life and so simple. Just the fried oysters, some lettuce and tomato, mayo and hot sauce. And the bread was incredible.

[@AC-ni4gt]

I remember how Ollie said that he can do a crawfish boil in the UK. It does make sense as the crawfish in our neck of the woods is an invasive specie in your guys' freshwater rivers.

[@brandonsimmons1695]

The crawfish boil experience is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Give me that over a bbq any day. So good.

[@Ms2cents]

If you do go to New Orleans, make sure you buy some of their seasonings to take home with you.

[@blackpowder99]

Growing up in Kansas my little brother and I couldn't wait for the day after a heavy rain.We would go crawfish hunting, and boil them right there on my Grandmother's stove great memories.

[@Jalapenioman8049]

On the crawfish, you’re not sucking brains, is just water with spices! The water from the boil

[@CaucasianCajun]

WTF, the whole point of sucking the head is the get the fatty yellow organ meat if it didn't come out with the tail...

[@scottdarden3091]

Who was it that cracked open an oyster and said hmmm I think I'll eat that 😋😂😂😂

[@Ira88881]

Had to be Native Americans. Here in South Florida, especially west coast, we have man made islands made from discarded oyster shells. I think the Calusa tribe was big on this.

[@lostlothbrok7156]

It looks intimidating but once you actually try it you'll love it

[@johnkieffer4525]

Guys I’m from southeast Louisiana and we do this every weekend in our backyards with family and friends and a lot of beer

[@eTraxx]

If you have a Cajun putting the spice in the boil .. you .. NEED cold beer .. to knock the stinging of the lips from the spice .. heck .. a spicy boil and your fingers start to tingle

[@pn1457]

Back many years ago (1979) I had a t-shirt with a crawdad holding a can of beer on it that read SUCK THE HEADS EAT THE TAILS .The message is perfectly clear but I was fond of telling the homegrown country girls it also had another meaning. I cherish those nights of DIXIELAND DELIGHT in Tennessee.

[@lonnieortiz9571]

crawfish broil is amazing and easy, definitely need to try it

[@rodneysisco6364]

When I was a kid in Alabama I used to catch crawfish in the creek and mom would boil them up in a spicy boil . Now that I live on a small island just off the south shore of Long Island , my sons and I used to net blue craw crabs along the bulkheads on the canals here . We also have a wholesale seafood place just across the bridge where the manager is a friend of my oldest son so we get lobster,shrimp,mussels ,clams,oysters,flounder,fluke,striped bass , sea bass , etc etc etc at very good prices

[@Tri.dawg1]

Please trying a crawfish it’s soo good Louisiana has the best seasoning in the world

[@philmakris8507]

Most of the weight is the shells though. 85%. So 5 pounds would yield 3/4 of a pound of meat.

[@scottdarden3091]

They should have corn, little potatoes and onions cooked boiled with the crawfish mixed in.

[@SarahBroad-kw7fj]

If you can’t handle doing the getting the crawfish out of the shell just go to a restaurant that specializes in Étouffée is a crayfish (crawfish) or shrimp stew typical of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The étouffée name comes from the French, it is a culinary term indicating slow cooking in a pot or Dutch oven with a lid.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

Crawfish taste and even feel better than shrimp, but they're very similar! Never sucked the head though. Cajun food is my favorite genre of food, but it's very spicy!

[@edryuu1]

all i got to say is gotta try it at least once... cuz it will be once in a lifetime until u decide to or feel like going back to try more other things in the far distance future wise

[@yugioht42]

The crawfish are usually cooked with tons of spice so really you don’t need anything.there is butter on the table but you really don’t need it.

[@TheBalty]

Soooo goooood!! We have them here is Washington State but we call them Crawdads. Most fresh water, healthy streams have them as well as most muddy or sandy bottom lakes. That video made me super hungry lol. Keep em coming!!!

[@destinyreelly2974]

Going to a restaurant for a boil is my favorite dining experience. I think everyone should try it at least once!!!

[@jameswelsh598]

You can't believe how good crawdads are if cooked correctly

[@wiilli7685]

Cajun and Creole goodness of Louisiana baby. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@ViPro2023]

I read a book about Sir Francis Drake circumnavigating the world. He was somewhere in the western Pacific, with his ship laden with gold and Spices when his ship became lodged on a sandbar. He had to choose between dumping all the gold or all the spices overboard. He dumped all the spices overboard and was able to float free, and to this day England is a rich nation that doesn't use spices.

[@alexwest8526]

Im actually from Louisiana we don’t just suck the head, we bite the head then suck.. pause 🤣

[@Ira88881]

I do the same.

[@Mindspasm]

Lol we all react the same way you do the first time someone says that about the crawfish head. But once you try it, you quickly find out why it's a must and so addictive.

[@thomasblack3675]

I f-n love it,crab, lobster, shrimp, oysters,tuna, crayfish.😊

[@kevinlee6003]

Im here south of New Orleans in Louisiana watching this. Plan on having a crawfish boil this week tbh

[@TheWatchmen001]

I need to send y'all some of our Louisiana seasoning. It works with all food groups...

[@Banyo__]

As a seasoned veteran of my fair share of seafood boils, if you're a first timer, totally get it, it's intimidating but literally everyone will help you out and show you how to break into the shells or get at the good meat. It does absolutely freak people out to see the heads and little legs and stuff, but once you get into a rhythm you become numb to the murder of these hundreds of mudbugs (nickname for crawfish). I mean when is the last time you cried over eating a chicken's leg?

[@LadyofFe]

Old bay spice is awesome with crab and shrimp.

[@nullakjg767]

3-5 pounds sounds like a lot but each crawfish is really only 15% meat by weight.

[@usmc24thmeu36]

The only sauce we use and it's not a sauce we dip it in clarified butter

[@bobkroll2669]

These two brits are having a great time and they are funny

[@thomasblack3675]

Oh it's good.😊 Yes it takes a lot to fill you up.

[@jeffhampton2767]

I've been eating Seafood every week for the past 50 years. You live a sheltered life😂😂😂

[@swayzefan3600]

my second favorite seafood boil is cajun style shrimp boiled in the same spices they use for crawfish- crawfish are my favorite but only available a small portion of the year in my area. but yall should try the cajun boiled shrimp when you go.

[@tallguytrucker7864]

Looking forward to watching your USA videos when you arrive here.

[@ChrisMeadows-fr9gn]

The power play on the oysters is to throw some hot sauce and squeeze a lemon on it

[@kevinkruger1686]

Thank you for reacting to this.

[@bryandeviney4072]

The thing about American food... it's just Europen, Middle East, Asian, Mexican, etc food.....Cultures of food that were brought to America, it was taken and sorta made it their own over the years.. Except BBQ, no one can BBQ like America.

[@ronbrooks6547]

Come to Texas or Louisiana and go to Boudreaux Cajun kitchen. You can order crawfish pieces out the shell, just the meat in the meal.

[@SarahBroad-kw7fj]

I love Cajun and creole cuisine so different from the old bay New England style seafood cuisine. If you like jerky chicken spices you’ll like this too.

[@George-ux6zz]

If you go to Florida, you have to try a grouper sandwich. They're delicious. Im not a seafood guy but these are amazing.

[@Bob-q9o]

Crawdads as we call them around here is a fresh water lobster I do believe lol

[@scottdarden3091]

The Caribbean way is similar because that's where Cajun comes from 😛

[@lindadeters8685]

If you never tried any new food, you’d still be living on formula. I grew up in a home where the rule was that you had to try everything once, then, if you didn’t like it, you didn’t need to eat it again. There are only a few foods on my Never Again list and some on my Yes I Can Eat, But Wouldn’t Go Out of My Way For List.

[@lsunationalchamps08]

5 pounds of crawfish is a tease for me.. give me 8-10. I taught an older couple from Colorado last year how to eat some. They enjoyed lol

[@25arkie]

I love watching British response videos. They always look like "what's flavor (or flavour in the UK)?" lol

[@Ira88881]

I love crawfish. First time I had them was 35 years ago…big crawfish festival..and I didn’t know the proper way to eat them. My entire face was bleeding, because I kept stabbing myself with tips of the claws. Those things are SHARP! In Brooklyn, now Florida, they don’t teach you how to properly eat them things!

[@larrybarron6184]

I grew up in Louisiana and have lived in Texas for the past 20 years and I can safely say that La-Tex food is the best in the world.

[@lesschonewitz9456]

my family buys two or three hundred pounds of crawfish when we have a crawfish boil love them

[@dddarbyii]

Come to New Orleans. I'll be happy to treat both of you to crayfish boil. I wouldn't mind hosting you for a bit. 😊😊

[@billstein2]

I lived in New Orleans for six years. I never really like crawfish... but found the tastiest part of eating them was, the head.

[@hardknox1917]

Yo fats Caribbean and Louisiana flavors are similar !

[@victormorgan7766]

Order some crawfish boil and by shrimp or prawns!!!🍤

[@pointlessmanatee]

I'd dip it in sauce made of half ketchup half mayo + lemon juice cayenne pepper and/or crab boil

[@ThoseWhoStayUofM]

Fill your heart with love and experience everything you can while you're young enough to do so.

[@heatherhitchens3212]

We call prawn shrimp here. Crawfish is completely different

[@TanielaKaufusi]

Louisiana was once a french colony and so they really seasoned their food. Even after America took Louisiana, the food tradition stuck.

[@lamondjack4349]

It's different from a prawn Fats. Its crawfish so when you pull the tail from its body and pull the meat from its tail shell it's more robust than than doing it with prawns. You'd get use to it very quickly. I'm from South Louisiana & South Texas so I know from cultural experience.

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

Welcome to Cajun Country, mates. 😂

[@ChristopherWallaceNet]

Yass, I love your hat! I can't tell what it says, though. Is there a place I can buy one?

[@tomcat3769]

I’ve been to that restaurant. I don’t live too far from it.

[@fishsaltwater5616]

You can suck the boil from claws, it’s a little more palatable for less adventurous people

[@defconltd]

You two are so adorable :D

[@brandonsimmons1695]

Louisiana is its own country and they like it that way. Born there and spent 20 years.

[@alex98656]

You guys have too to try it. ✌️

[@JohnSmith-tw5fl]

Some people who don't like lobsters have tried the wrong one. The best is always cold-water lobster, which is around Maine. Some restaurants try to get by with other lobster...they are horrible.

[@RaysHobbies]

Get some Zatarains seafood boil seasoning, some crayfish, some Louisiana hot sauce and go crazy

[@kevinmarshall854]

If you like crab you need to try a shellfish called "ABALONE". It is the most expensive shellfish in the world. Me and my friends go snorkeling every year on the west coast of northern California to get it. In California it is severely controlled by the fish and game department of the state and you are only allowed to have 4 of them in your possession at any one time. We go for a long weekend and we eat ABALONE for every meal while we are on the trip. We have found and created a lot of dishes but my very favorite is still the ABALONE fried in butter for just a few minutes and served in either in a TACO or with mashed orm roasted whole potatoes with a nice gravy made from the drippings from frying the ABALONE. IT ABSOLUTELY THE BEST THING THAT YOU WILL EVER HAVE IN YOUR MOUTH IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!!!!😱😱😱😱😱😋😋😋😋😋😋

[@YellaBellaReno]

I recommend New Orleans to everyone, domestic or abroad. It’s an extremely unique city, and not just by American standards.

[@dantean]

I've also never understood how a potato famine could possibly drive the Irish out of Ireland when all they had to do was stick some lines in the water and await the ensuing developments.

[@brianbrooks-in5yy]

If you do come to the US, visit the South/Southeast!

[@dillbill2A]

Yass I bet the lobster that you had previously wasn't done correctly because lobster when done properly is far juicier and better than crab!

[@fryyking2958]

Yo I'm from Louisiana appreciate the compliments .. also I agree Lobster is yuck I had my first taste out here in Georgia. Crawfish is really good it taste nothing like lobster at all plus Louisiana, we, season our food so it's never to be compared to how other states might cook, boil, or bake a recipe of the same title. & Your right my entire life I've never sucked the head do you know it's yellow stuff that comes out of that anyways the tail & paws will do you just right with some of our Tabasco & Ketchup. Trust me you will like it, if not love it."🖐️

[@michaelterry3885]

?he doesn't suck the head , he inhaled ... He's literally inhaling it..😂

[@TimSmith-uc4pk]

Always remember to eat local. Corporate restaurants will not give you that experience with their food.