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If you\u2019ve been to the South, but never been to a swamp shack, well\u2026. you haven\u2019t truly been to all the South. I mean at a swamp shack the \u2018gators don\u2019t do the eating, they get eaten, much to their own chagrin. Now Buzzard Billy\u2019s is not unique to Waco, it\u2019s something of a chain, and it is a chain that has roots in Cajun and Creole country, and the cooking down on the Bayou and in New Orleans. Can you hear the Creedence Clearwater music now?? Anyway, on one of my last days in Waco, me and my buddy Bruce Longenecker aka the Bruester, rendezvoused at Buzzard Billy\u2019s on the Brazos for some fine eatin. We had armadillo eggs aka bacon wrapped chicken balls stuffed with a small jalapeno (not too hot, just right). You dip em in ranch dressing, and you are in armadillo heaven\u2026.
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This course came with fried pickles (i.e. dill chips) also to be dipped in ranch dressing\u2026 and equally yummy. Then, in the mode of all appetizers all the time, we moved on to the fried gator strips\u2026 which also come with ranch dressing (there\u2019s a theme here)\u2026.\"bb1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now this was a hard choice, cause we could have had the crawfish etouffee or the gumbo\u2026.
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There was the jambalaya as well\u2026.so many choices, so little time. It was nice to just sit on the Brazos River, hummin \u2018rollin on the river\u2019\u2026\u2026\"BB3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Eventually, in a lollygaggin kind of way, we got around to the genuine N\u2019orleans bread pudding with sauce of course\u2026.\"bb6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After all that\u2026 we had to be hauled out of Buzzard Billy\u2019s in wheel barrows to our cars\u2026. a good time was had by all. Too bad we couldn\u2019t have had a more caloric meal than that one \ud83d\ude42
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