My Friend Angela the Foodie writes:

Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, whatever you want to call’em…you can eat them in Seattle at this place in Chinatown I was talking about:

These guys get theirs flown in from Louisiana and the gulf states but Lake Washington ones are available here too.

The photos are amusing.

Things could get pricey if you are particularly voracious. You can quickly amass a mound of red carcasses the size of Mt Rainier. I can eat several pounds of bugs myself. If you’re actually interested in trying a crawfish boil, it’s much cheaper to go to Uwajimaya or Ranch 99 Market and buy a whole bunch of them live and do it yourself. I wouldn’t mind hosting this at my house if people are interested and crawdads are available…

I post this mostly to a) make all you non-Seattleites either slightly queasy or jealous and b) to boast about having Angela the Foodie as a friend, because she is an awesome cook who served our family a scumdiddlicious dinner on Saturday night and then accompanied us from her home near Alki in West Seattle to the beach where we watched the Christmas ships (a venerable Seattle tradition), sang Christmas carols, and enjoyed the freezing December air. A wonderful and memorable night, made all the more wonderful by the fact that the Christmas ships are such an entrenched tradition that even in here in the Land of the White Witch, where it’s always winter and never Christmas, we actually sang Christmas carols and not mere winter songs.

Lovely! As for the crawdads, I’m there Angela! Yum!