Mexican crawdads

[aunt betty]

The Mexican store is sort of a pita to shop at due to "nobody speek engrish" but they have some pretty awesome things in there. I think I found frozen crawdads but the translator failed.
If it turns out that they are crawdads I'm gunna have to try me some. So how about a quick lesson on how to do it right?
No way am I going to the state with the most incarcerated people per capita in the world to become a future inmate just so I can maybe sample some mud bugs.

Frozen mud bugs just don't sound that great but have to try em eventually.
Lots of hot sauce or what? Clueless here.

[orphanedcowboy]

Go back and look at the country of origin

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[Darren]

Going it on your own is likely setting up for leaving a bad taste in your mouth, especially since they might not be of US origin (the Chinese are in on this market as well, unfortunately). Come down this way, hunt, and have crawfish.

[aunt betty]

And jumbalaya and gumbo and some of them other things I can't pronounce. Chicken fried nutria?

[aunt betty]

Went back and looked again. No country of origin.
Said "Cameron" on the label and that it's destination was Champaign, Illinois.

So I had to remember that I took 5 years of Spanish and asked the lady, "Que es Cameron en Ingles?".
No se?
Shrimp? Si!

I thought shrimp was crawdads.
I'm such a goofy Yankee gringo.

It was over $5 for a handful of shrimp but they were fairly good size. Never saw shrimp that had its head on still. Them eyes were staring at me. hehe

[Rick]

Cameron is the coastal town for which the parish (county) our camp is in is named and where ericdc gets his shrimp. You could be shrimp brothers.

[aunt betty]

Yeah. Paris is in Illinois and so is Berlin.
Manila is in Arkansas and so is Egypt. (and then there is Wiener)
London is in Ohio.

Always wanted to set up Weiner AR with Coochie MO.

[SpinnerMan]

Yeah. Paris is in Illinois and so is Berlin.
Manila is in Arkansas and so is Egypt. (and then there is Wiener)
London is in Ohio.

Always wanted to set up Weiner AR with Coochie MO.

Yes, but were is Big Beaver, Blue Ball, Jugtown, Intercourse, and Climax (obviously not near Blue Ball)? Here's a hint, in the same state as the town of Rough and Ready?

[Rick]

Not at all lascivious, but still tickles me that Mom was born in Joker and raised in Booger Hole.

Though Marietta (named in honor of the much less popular in her own country gal who helped win our independence), OH gets credit for being the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territories, it was actually a river community named "Shoestring" until postal service began along the Ohio, and not being able to spell their address became problematic for enough residents to call for a change. No telling how that renaming process actually went, but it would appear there was a "Fly" in the room. Fly was also the scene of one of the region's last Indian massacres while the men were off gathering salt from a lick.

[SpinnerMan]

There are definitely some names that just make you wonder and other that make you laugh and a lot that make you glad you don't have to put that on every piece of mail and everything that requires an address.

[aunt betty]

What's odd is "Cameron" does not translate Spanish to English. (I tried)
Must be Mexican slang or something.

[Rick]

Psst...Camron is the name of the SW Louisiana port town the shrimp came from. Named, for reasons unknown to me, after Lincoln's first Secretary of War. Perrhaps a carpetbagger who'd be lynched there today. Dunno.

[SpinnerMan]

Psst...Camron is the name of the SW Louisiana port town the shrimp came from. Named, for reasons unknown to me, after Lincoln's first Secretary of War. Perrhaps a carpetbagger who'd be lynched there today. Dunno.

That's interesting. The carpetbaggers of the day were Republicans, classic liberals. The carpetbaggers of which you speak would be the northern liberal, classic leftists. Pretty sure Trump's Secretary of War would do OK and God forbid Hillary's would not.

Interesting how times have changed in places that seem to have not.

Or they both would get lynched.

[Rick]

Liberal, conservative makes no difference: Coonass don' like nobodys telling him what he gots to do.

[aunt betty]

Psst...Camron is the name of the SW Louisiana port town the shrimp came from. Named, for reasons unknown to me, after Lincoln's first Secretary of War. Perrhaps a carpetbagger who'd be lynched there today. Dunno.

Ah. Way to hold that little fact back.
Have been on a Mexican food craving thing lately. Monday was burritos as big as your head and today I'm doing chicken tacos.
(no fish)
Dousing them with Louisiana hot sauce..mmmm

Too bad the south didn't win that war. We'd have a much smaller federal government with far less oversight and regulations.
Plus that skinner guy wouldn't be posting on gubment time.

[SpinnerMan]

Liberal, conservative makes no difference: Coonass don' like nobodys telling him what he gots to do.

Even if what he is doing is the dumbest damn thing ever

This is something that the do-gooders just cannot comprehend. The only response to "you can't do that" is "you wanna bet" or worse.

Just interesting how the people that are telling you what to do and what they are telling you to do are so different. In many ways, they have been turned on their head.

[aunt betty]

Hey I've watched some people do what seemed idiotic but was patient enough to wait n see the outcome. Usually there is some kind of motive to their madness. Hang around me long enough and you'll have a few "I'll be damned" moments after I said "shut the fuck up and watch". Happened all the time while training cubs on the job. Training an 18-yr-old how to roll up a 100-foot extension cord for instance.
There's always something we can be taught, even by a coon-ass.

[Rick]

Psst...Camron is the name of the SW Louisiana port town the shrimp came from. Named, for reasons unknown to me, after Lincoln's first Secretary of War. Perrhaps a carpetbagger who'd be lynched there today. Dunno.

Ah. Way to hold that little fact back.

Might want to read my very first post on this thread...

[Rick]

Liberal, conservative makes no difference: Coonass don' like nobodys telling him what he gots to do.

Even if what he is doing is the dumbest damn thing ever

Especially then.

[aunt betty]

Cameron is the coastal town for which the parish (county) our camp is in is named and where ericdc gets his shrimp. You could be shrimp brothers.

You left out that it's the origin of the shrimp in that Mexican store in Champaign. I missed the shrimp brother reference because I don't take hints plus I bought no shrimp. It was like a buck a shrimp.
I get it now but it wasn't clear to me before. Clobber me with facts.

Rick all it said was Cameron. Not "from Cameron".
I'll go back next week and take a picture of that same package of shrimp. It's been there well over a week now.

There's a bonita chica in that store that I might take hunting so she can cook vittles.
Actually has all her teeth.

[aunt betty]

When I was in college we took a class-trip to Mexico. Volunteered to build outhouses and while we were there we handed out toothbrushes. Both the outhouses and the toothbrushes were probably never used for their intended purposes.
No clue what the secondary usage of a mexican outhouse is but for sure the toothbrushes got used to clean dad's carb on the truck or something like that.

[aunt betty]

Only 10,005 posts to go and I'll rub it in assateague's face.