Make sure the restaurant y’all visit for crawfish has a good reputation not just for taste but also for size (mid-crawfish season in Louisiana produces baby lobster size crawfishes) and for how clean their crawfish are.
Foods like crawfish and Blue Crab are foods that not only are popular because they taste amazing but because you have to slow down to peel them and open them up. It promotes more of a socializing atmosphere around the table giving everyone a chance to chat enjoy the meal and connect directly with family and friends without any technology getting in the way because both of your hands are busy and not clean. So you definitely don't want to pick up your phone much less text with anyone or surf the Web. Having to slow down and work for your food a little is half the reason people love eating together in big groups or just with a friend or two. It breeds fellowship.
Crawfish boils down South, or Crab feasts up near the Chesapeake, are meant to be social occasions. You basically sit at a large table outside and just talk and eat for hours because it takes so much of them to eat to fill you up.
Crawfish boils are cultural in Louisiana and East Texas (Although the rest of the gulf coast will have places that do it as well). Although in Houston, there is a new Vietnamese adaptation of it (really, just changing the time at which you apply the seasoning) that's gaining a lot of traction. Once you get efficient at taking them apart, you burn through pounds of it far faster than you'd think.
I'm from Upstate South Carolina and we call them crawdads . We would catch a few from the creeks and boil them up . When I was in the navy stationed on a ship in Charleston we would buy crawdads by the 25 pound sack . We used Zatarain's or Tony Chachere's seasonings .
while i appreciate the vietnamese version, it's does not take the place of a boil, especially the sucking the head doesn't quite work with that method.
its not the type of seasoning that makes a difference in the north its the amount. if it aint hurting your mouth it aint psicy enough@@victorwaddell6530
I am a native of Louisiana and a relatively slow eater, it takes me about 40 minutes due to my age (79) and non locals are amazed with how fast I do eat the Mudbugs.
When you're in the US, you have to go to Buc-ees of course. They are actually in a lot more states than Texas now. You can also find them in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. As far as other Southern cuisine, ask a local. Don't just rely on those sort of "best of lists you find online." Locals will tell you where the real good stuff is. In the states you mention, southern food like biscuits and gravy, chicken and waffles, bbq for sure, banana pudding, check out a real diner. Go for the good stuff.
I'm not originally from Louisiana, I was born and raised in Virginia, but my mother's side of the family are proud Louisiana natives, and this video and the other Jolly video you uploaded a couple days ago just reminds me of all the amazing Cajun dishes my grandparents would cook when I was young. Gumbo, Jambalaya, red beans and rice. Absolutely love the Louisiana culture and cuisine, and I highly recommend you try it! However, if you're in my home state of Virginia, I recommend you try our apples (not just from a chain store like Walmart). You have to try genuine Virginia grown apples. If you're in a more rural area, there will actually be signs along some of the roads saying things like "turn left for apples" or "fresh cider ahead". Virginia apples are some of my favorites, and I absolutely LOVE apples! Apple pie, apple cider, apple butter. All of those are some of my favorite things you can make with them. Hope you enjoy your time in the USA!
With respect to your reference to Cajun or Cajuns most here have no idea who or what you are referring to. Cajun or Cajuns are members of any of the largely self-contained communities in the bayou areas of southern Louisiana and very east Texas formed by descendants of French Canadians, speaking an archaic form of French.
Crawfish is amazing but my favorite part of a crawfish boil is the sausage and the corn on the cob that they boil with it. Also, the potatoes because they all soak up all that spice and it’s an explosion of flavor when you eat any of that stuff.
Not sure anyone mentioned it, but when they talk about a "boil" in the south, it means everything was boiled in the same pot. So that corn and the sausage were boiled with the seafood.
13:17 Since you've mentioned that you're going to be in Alabama, if you try any BBQ while here, you should definitely try the Alabama White BBQ sauce It's a pretty unique experience
You might be a little early for fresh crawfish, the season usually starts in December. They'll have frozen ones still, but they may come from Vietnam. Still the way they cook them makes it great
Never eat crawfish that comes from Vietnam. Crawfish in Vietnam are raised in sewage ponds. I tried some crawfish from Vietnam and I immediately regretted it. The crawfish had a strange taste plus the meat was tough. I only ate two of those Vietnam crawfish and I will never eat another one. When the news came out about how the crawfish were raised in Nam, the sales of their crawfish really fell. To get back into the market, the Vietnam plants started packaging their products with logos that make them seem like they come from Louisiana. Look closely at the back of the package because the origin of the product has to be stated.
You can get crawfish peeled in dishes so you don't have to do all the work. My grandma did Crawfish Casserole, it was super spicy but I could not stop eating it as a kid. So good. My mother's paternal side all lived/live in Louisiana.
Y’all also have to go to a college football game, and also a HBCU football game as well. You have to try Southern Soul Food, Southern seafood, and southern BBQ. The place with the most unique Southern culture will be in Louisiana especially in New Orleans. Other good places are in Memphis Tennessee, Nashville Tennessee, Mobile Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alabama, Birmingham Alabama, Atlanta Georgia.
In the South make sure to try fried okra and fried green tomatoes, and of course biscuits and gravy, corn bread and steamed yellow squash. Welcome to the U.S and stay safe!
You can order pre-shelled crawfish also especially if the crawfish is in a gumbo, jambalaya or ettoufee stew! Aiden can still enjoy crawfish without having to break them apart.
worked at a shellfish boil restaurant for 2 years until they closed. never ate so much snow crab and shrimp. it was my first time getting to try blue crab, dungeness, oysters (only had one raw. raw, it was weird. fried were alright. best was grilled), black and green mussels, crawfish. i've had plenty of crawfish and such since, but that restaurant man, i still dream about the spicy lemon. i'd get the recipe but my jerk boss skipped town not letting me know we were closing and i never got my last paycheck. woulda had 100 hours on that thing.
I've been waiting on Jolly to go to New Orleans. I Love the South and that's how we eat, we have big Crawfish & Shrimp 🦐 boils all the time 😉👍❤️..If you're in Alabama it's not that far to New Orleans.
Yeah crawfish is the good stuff right there! Cajun Boils in general are some of the best meals on this earth for real. The immense amounts of seasonings and spices might be a bit much for you Europeans at first but once you get used to it it's something special. Me and my bro get Cajun Boils every month.
Crawfish are bigger culturally as you move into the gulf areas of the Deep South. In places like Tennessee and northern Alabama, they can be harder to come by.
The differing reactions between you three when the phrase, "Sucking the head" was said was hilarious and kind of unexpected. Daz's eyebrows perked up as if saying, "I did hear that correct. What kind of bass-ackwards place is this America?!" Aiden really tried to keep a straight face like a kid in health class and the lesson that day is the "best/worst" lesson of all. Gaynor, unbelievably started giggling!!!! I would definitely assumed that Daz and Gaynor's reactions would have been swapped because guys are usually more immature and hearing such a phrase is like a fart joke; we're just not going to let that pass by.
I grew up right down the road from that Restaurant. Eaten there more times than I could count. What a trip this video was. Love it. Safe travels to you all on the trip across the pond!
I live in Alabama, we have 4 Buc-ee's that I know of. There's one in Athens, Alabama up near the Tennessee state line. One in Auburn, if you do make it to Georgia it's near the Georgia state line. One just outside of Birmingham. And the other is down south near Gulf Shores.
No cajun just gumbo y'all made nothing. How can it be cajun when the Creoles where making it that way before the cajuns arrived? This only became a problem when racist CODIFIL tried to eliminate Creoles of color from the culture of Louisiana.
Love seafood! I make seafood boil for the family using various seasonings... creole, cajun, cayenne, Old Bay, red chilis, onions, garlic, etc. Corn, red potatoes, andouille sausage, king crab, snow crab, lobster, and shrimp. The family LOVES it!
If you're coming to Tennessee, stop by Chattanooga and See Ruby Falls and the Tennessee Aquarium!!!! Lots of love, and I hope y'all enjoy your trip! If you do come to Chattanooga, City Cafe is THE BEST PLACE for dessert!!!
Texan here. I can’t eat boiled crawfish. Tried it twice and got stomach ache both times. But I love crawfish étouffee. It must be the seasoning in the boiled crawfish that got me. Can’t wait to see Aidan try all the foods 😊.
When she says 5lbs of crawfish you have to take into account that when you remove the heads and shells you are discarding 3/4 of the crawfish. So you're really only eating 1.25 lbs.
In Sweden, we have a yearly tradition called "kräftskiva" where we eat crasyfish, dress in silly hats, sing and drink a lot of hard spirits. But we cook it in tons of dill, nothing like that.
As a southerner, y'all need to try biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak, and some barbecue (in as many different states as possible). Most states have their own style of bbq, so it can vary wildly from location to location, even within a state.
I will say, if you get to Tennessee or Texas, get some brisket in both states. If you're in the Carolinas or Missouri (Kansas City), get some ribs. Otherwise, try everything. Southern BBQ is insane, but you haven't lived until you've had brisket and ribs in several of the states. It'll change your life :)
Best part of crawfish 🦞 boils are the extra things like small potatoes and corn on the cob as you eat the crawfish eat the potatoes and corn too they are cooked with the boil so the same seasoning are in them too(sidenote I’ve never did the crawfish sucking most men don’t it’s kinda like men eating a banana 🍌 in public)
Softshell crab sandwiches are awesome. You suck the head, you do not inhale them! I have fond memories of crab boils in Maryland. Similar but different. Mmm, oysters. I had the best lobster in Maine but that looks great. New Orleans barbeque shrimp is great too.
If you're going to be in the Gulf Shores area of Alabama, visit Cafe Acadiana in Silver Hill. It's an amazing cajun restaurant in a small town of about 4000. The owner is from Louisiana and he does a fantastic job, I'm sure he would take care of ya'll. Get the boudin balls!
I really like your reactions with food, and I look forward to seeing your time here in the States!!! I hope you have a safe flight and stay safe over here!!!!!❤
I am now an old-timer (Young at heart 79 years young). Currently at a local eatery during "Mudbug" season, as soon as I walk into the establishment the waitresses know my order without asking. 2 sequential orders of "Mudbugs" (3 pounds each - 1.36 kilograms each) When I was younger I ate 10 pounds on average but have no idea what my record is in one sitting. As for seasoning foods, I grew up on a bland diet due to my late mother's dietary health restrictions. I joined the navy and all the food seemed to be extra bland wherever I was either aboard ship or on liberty at a port of call. Only spent 6 years in the navy and I am glad for able to enjoy the local seasoning foods. I am a native of New Orleans and still residing in the city.
There are Buck-ees locations in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia so you'll be able to get the jerky. Crawfish boil is not the only way to eat them. I've even had them sauteed and served on a grilled steak. I don't like shellfish either but I do love crawfish.
Hey Gaynor you gotta get Aidan to try some honey mustard with some chicken or something haha. I think you said you tried to sneak it on a sandwich or something and he wasnt having it, lol. If he gets fries with a meal in a restaurant it's usually really good honey mustard. Worth a shot! You guys are going to have so much fun. Best wishes to all of you!
Unfortunately Crawfish season is between February and July. Might be able to get some, but it won't be the same. There is tons of other food that will be amazing to try.
Southern food is intensely regional. For a decent crawfish boil, you need to be down on the Gulf Coast, either South Louisiana or South East Texas. I'm from Louisiana and I find most food outside my region to be rather bland.
Those blue crabs are a MARYLAND delicacy >:( Honestly though, love the Jolly boys. I’m so glad they went to Louisiana, my family has roots there and their reaction to gumbo probably gave me life for the next ten years😂
Blue crab can be found along the entire east coast of the U.S. every coast in the Gulf and Carribean, and along the east coast of South America almost down to the southern tip. I've had fresh caught blue crab at my place in Curaçao. They are not distinctly a Maryland thing and Old Bay is overrated. 😉
You can get them where you are just go to the nearest river take a coat hanger and put a fish head at the end put it like 3 feet in the river when you get like 20 scoop them up and a few minutes later there will be another 20 I caught like 200 of them there so good
I usually start with 3 pounds and go from there if i order them in a restaurant. There is basically 2 varieties of Louisiana cooking: Cajun and creole. Paul Prudhomme classified them as country and city, with creole being city. Creole is where this video is shot in Belle Chasse, which is a suburb of New Orleans. The New Orleans metro is mostly creole cooking, the rural areas to the west, Cajun country, is Cajun. For most dishes, the difference is minor and a matter of taste. Do you use tomatoes in a particular dish or not? Do you use garlic or not? Unless you know, you cannot tell the difference. Crawfish is different. The way crawfish is boiled in New Orleans is totally different from the way they do it in cajun country. These differences change the seasoning on the final dish (things like the use of crab boil in the water or not). Thankfully, these 2 guys got their crawfish in Belle Chasse, because they taste 1000 times better here than in SW Louisiana. Then again, im from New Orleans I may be biased :)
Buc-ees are based out of Texas but are through out the south best bet is once y’all get state side look up the closest location from where y’all are staying
Crawfish season is early in the new year (February) but they're are often farm raised and available year round. DO NOT EAT THE CORN COB IN THE BOIL, IT RETAINS ALL THE RED PEPPER AND WILL MAKE YOU MISERABLE!. It's alot of work for little bites of meat, sometimes not flavor as much as too spicey. The yellow soft gel has the most flavor. Soft shell crabs are absolutely delicious. Break off the tail, pull off the top "knucle" and pinch the meat out from the tail end to the thick end.
What cajun influence? You brought nothing to Louisiana so how can you influence the cuisines/culture. If cajuns was so influential why there's no good food culture on the east coast where they landed first? Where's this spicy food, seasonings music? Stop taking credit for stuff you had nothing to do with.
cant wait to hear about your American adventures! were in Arkansas right next door and its a lovely part of the country imo gonna be a little chilly i think
Aidan. If you request a bib they'll give you one with your highchair.🤣🤣🤣
His girlfriend will have to feed him like a toddler and hold the spoon and fly it into his mouth while making airplane noises.🤣
Seriously! I suppose his reactions are helpful if you're traveling with a toddler.
Make sure the restaurant y’all visit for crawfish has a good reputation not just for taste but also for size (mid-crawfish season in Louisiana produces baby lobster size crawfishes) and for how clean their crawfish are.
When done right mudbugs are ambrosia.
I'm sure they wouldn't know what is what:/
..."ya'll"...lol
@@areguapiriIts the contraction for "you all". Just like "isn't" is the contraction of "is not".
@@areguapirinever heard that before ?
Foods like crawfish and Blue Crab are foods that not only are popular because they taste amazing but because you have to slow down to peel them and open them up. It promotes more of a socializing atmosphere around the table giving everyone a chance to chat enjoy the meal and connect directly with family and friends without any technology getting in the way because both of your hands are busy and not clean. So you definitely don't want to pick up your phone much less text with anyone or surf the Web.
Having to slow down and work for your food a little is half the reason people love eating together in big groups or just with a friend or two. It breeds fellowship.
Crawfish boils down South, or Crab feasts up near the Chesapeake, are meant to be social occasions. You basically sit at a large table outside and just talk and eat for hours because it takes so much of them to eat to fill you up.
Boiled crawfish are like buffalo wings, they are addictive.
Crawfish boils are cultural in Louisiana and East Texas (Although the rest of the gulf coast will have places that do it as well). Although in Houston, there is a new Vietnamese adaptation of it (really, just changing the time at which you apply the seasoning) that's gaining a lot of traction.
Once you get efficient at taking them apart, you burn through pounds of it far faster than you'd think.
I'm from Upstate South Carolina and we call them crawdads . We would catch a few from the creeks and boil them up . When I was in the navy stationed on a ship in Charleston we would buy crawdads by the 25 pound sack . We used Zatarain's or Tony Chachere's seasonings .
while i appreciate the vietnamese version, it's does not take the place of a boil, especially the sucking the head doesn't quite work with that method.
I'm a New Orleans native and others say that I inhale "Mudbugs".
When it's in season that is my staple food.
its not the type of seasoning that makes a difference in the north its the amount. if it aint hurting your mouth it aint psicy enough@@victorwaddell6530
They’re so funny. Born in Louisiana I can peel them fast and blindfolded. I polished off 10#’s in 30 minutes. Much easier than peeling shrimp to me.
I am a native of Louisiana and a relatively slow eater, it takes me about 40 minutes due to my age (79) and non locals are amazed with how fast I do eat the Mudbugs.
When you're in the US, you have to go to Buc-ees of course. They are actually in a lot more states than Texas now. You can also find them in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. As far as other Southern cuisine, ask a local. Don't just rely on those sort of "best of lists you find online." Locals will tell you where the real good stuff is. In the states you mention, southern food like biscuits and gravy, chicken and waffles, bbq for sure, banana pudding, check out a real diner. Go for the good stuff.
Yes glad to hear. You’re going to the heart of it. Come say hi in Nashville
Kind of ironic that Ollie likes the crawfish head as he is the one who has a more British palate than Josh lol
Gotta get Aiden off the kids menu and into awesome adult food
I'm not originally from Louisiana, I was born and raised in Virginia, but my mother's side of the family are proud Louisiana natives, and this video and the other Jolly video you uploaded a couple days ago just reminds me of all the amazing Cajun dishes my grandparents would cook when I was young. Gumbo, Jambalaya, red beans and rice. Absolutely love the Louisiana culture and cuisine, and I highly recommend you try it! However, if you're in my home state of Virginia, I recommend you try our apples (not just from a chain store like Walmart). You have to try genuine Virginia grown apples. If you're in a more rural area, there will actually be signs along some of the roads saying things like "turn left for apples" or "fresh cider ahead". Virginia apples are some of my favorites, and I absolutely LOVE apples! Apple pie, apple cider, apple butter. All of those are some of my favorite things you can make with them. Hope you enjoy your time in the USA!
With respect to your reference to Cajun or Cajuns most here have no idea who or what you are referring to.
Cajun or Cajuns are members of any of the largely self-contained communities in the bayou areas of southern Louisiana and very east Texas formed by descendants of French Canadians, speaking an archaic form of French.
One thing you learn about the south and Cajun is there is no fear of spices. There is definitely no underspicing of the food
When I was in the navy (I am a New Orleans native) and my spice upbringing, all the foods tasted ultra bland.
I’ve wanted to see Ollie try craw fish boil 😂😂 it didn’t disappoint lol
I’m rooting for you Aidan. You can do it. Just open your horizons and try it!!! ❤
Crawfish is amazing but my favorite part of a crawfish boil is the sausage and the corn on the cob that they boil with it. Also, the potatoes because they all soak up all that spice and it’s an explosion of flavor when you eat any of that stuff.
Not sure anyone mentioned it, but when they talk about a "boil" in the south, it means everything was boiled in the same pot. So that corn and the sausage were boiled with the seafood.
13:17
Since you've mentioned that you're going to be in Alabama, if you try any BBQ while here, you should definitely try the Alabama White BBQ sauce
It's a pretty unique experience
You might be a little early for fresh crawfish, the season usually starts in December. They'll have frozen ones still, but they may come from Vietnam. Still the way they cook them makes it great
Never eat crawfish that comes from Vietnam. Crawfish in Vietnam are raised in sewage ponds. I tried some crawfish from Vietnam and I immediately regretted it. The crawfish had a strange taste plus the meat was tough. I only ate two of those Vietnam crawfish and I will never eat another one. When the news came out about how the crawfish were raised in Nam, the sales of their crawfish really fell. To get back into the market, the Vietnam plants started packaging their products with logos that make them seem like they come from Louisiana. Look closely at the back of the package because the origin of the product has to be stated.
You can get crawfish peeled in dishes so you don't have to do all the work. My grandma did Crawfish Casserole, it was super spicy but I could not stop eating it as a kid. So good. My mother's paternal side all lived/live in Louisiana.
Giant snow crab legs are the best. This makes me wanna go get some.
Y’all also have to go to a college football game, and also a HBCU football game as well. You have to try Southern Soul Food, Southern seafood, and southern BBQ. The place with the most unique Southern culture will be in Louisiana especially in New Orleans. Other good places are in Memphis Tennessee, Nashville Tennessee, Mobile Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alabama, Birmingham Alabama, Atlanta Georgia.
In the South make sure to try fried okra and fried green tomatoes, and of course biscuits and gravy, corn bread and steamed yellow squash. Welcome to the U.S and stay safe!
You can order pre-shelled crawfish also especially if the crawfish is in a gumbo, jambalaya or ettoufee stew! Aiden can still enjoy crawfish without having to break them apart.
Trying in the south... maybe Fried Green Tomatoes, Catfish, and/or Chicken Fried Steak (with white gravy). 💜
YES! Catfish is so good!
Oh god, fried green tomatoes. I'd kill for a good plate of fried green tomatoes.
worked at a shellfish boil restaurant for 2 years until they closed.
never ate so much snow crab and shrimp. it was my first time getting to try blue crab, dungeness, oysters (only had one raw. raw, it was weird. fried were alright. best was grilled), black and green mussels, crawfish. i've had plenty of crawfish and such since, but that restaurant man, i still dream about the spicy lemon.
i'd get the recipe but my jerk boss skipped town not letting me know we were closing and i never got my last paycheck. woulda had 100 hours on that thing.
I've been waiting on Jolly to go to New Orleans. I Love the South and that's how we eat, we have big Crawfish & Shrimp 🦐 boils all the time 😉👍❤️..If you're in Alabama it's not that far to New Orleans.
Yeah crawfish is the good stuff right there! Cajun Boils in general are some of the best meals on this earth for real. The immense amounts of seasonings and spices might be a bit much for you Europeans at first but once you get used to it it's something special. Me and my bro get Cajun Boils every month.
Crawfish are bigger culturally as you move into the gulf areas of the Deep South. In places like Tennessee and northern Alabama, they can be harder to come by.
Eh, Manchester, Liverpool basically the same. 🙄🤣
NGL as someone from New Orleans I wouldn't eat crawfish north of Baton Rouge, much less in Alabama or Tennessee.
They're everywhere in Alabama.
You should watch a vid of a crawfish boil. You'll see why they are talking about the seasoning
The differing reactions between you three when the phrase, "Sucking the head" was said was hilarious and kind of unexpected. Daz's eyebrows perked up as if saying, "I did hear that correct. What kind of bass-ackwards place is this America?!" Aiden really tried to keep a straight face like a kid in health class and the lesson that day is the "best/worst" lesson of all. Gaynor, unbelievably started giggling!!!! I would definitely assumed that Daz and Gaynor's reactions would have been swapped because guys are usually more immature and hearing such a phrase is like a fart joke; we're just not going to let that pass by.
I grew up right down the road from that Restaurant. Eaten there more times than I could count. What a trip this video was. Love it. Safe travels to you all on the trip across the pond!
I live in Alabama, we have 4 Buc-ee's that I know of. There's one in Athens, Alabama up near the Tennessee state line. One in Auburn, if you do make it to Georgia it's near the Georgia state line. One just outside of Birmingham. And the other is down south near Gulf Shores.
If you guys do make it down to Louisiana, let me know, I'll make y'all a pot of Cajun style gumbo.
No cajun just gumbo y'all made nothing. How can it be cajun when the Creoles where making it that way before the cajuns arrived? This only became a problem when racist CODIFIL tried to eliminate Creoles of color from the culture of Louisiana.
My family is from New Orleans originally even though I wasn’t born their we learned to love this and this makes me think of growing up.
Love seafood! I make seafood boil for the family using various seasonings... creole, cajun, cayenne, Old Bay, red chilis, onions, garlic, etc. Corn, red potatoes, andouille sausage, king crab, snow crab, lobster, and shrimp. The family LOVES it!
There are Buc-ee's in Alabama and Tennessee
Excited for you all and your trip!
I live in the mountains of east Tennessee, I hope y'all enjoy your trip to our little slice of heaven.
If you're coming to Tennessee, stop by Chattanooga and See Ruby Falls and the Tennessee Aquarium!!!! Lots of love, and I hope y'all enjoy your trip! If you do come to Chattanooga, City Cafe is THE BEST PLACE for dessert!!!
Texan here. I can’t eat boiled crawfish. Tried it twice and got stomach ache both times. But I love crawfish étouffee. It must be the seasoning in the boiled crawfish that got me.
Can’t wait to see Aidan try all the foods 😊.
When she says 5lbs of crawfish you have to take into account that when you remove the heads and shells you are discarding 3/4 of the crawfish. So you're really only eating 1.25 lbs.
I hate it when channels can't make their own content and live off of others hard work.
Y'all going down south so you have to have, sweet tea, biscuits and gravy, good BBQ, peach cobbler, and pecan pie. That's a good starter pack. 😊
enjoy the trip, cant wait to watch the footage
OOOOHHHHH Mud Bugs! Yummy! This is the Southern version of the Lobster bakes I am used to in Maine.
😂😂😂 Gaynor, at the end I thought you were talking about Texas ‘bookies’, as in bookies paying out gambling winnings!
In Sweden, we have a yearly tradition called "kräftskiva" where we eat crasyfish, dress in silly hats, sing and drink a lot of hard spirits.
But we cook it in tons of dill, nothing like that.
You guys are going to show up in America just in time for the Christmas transformation.
As a southerner, y'all need to try biscuits and gravy, chicken-fried steak, and some barbecue (in as many different states as possible). Most states have their own style of bbq, so it can vary wildly from location to location, even within a state.
I will say, if you get to Tennessee or Texas, get some brisket in both states. If you're in the Carolinas or Missouri (Kansas City), get some ribs. Otherwise, try everything. Southern BBQ is insane, but you haven't lived until you've had brisket and ribs in several of the states. It'll change your life :)
the word you were looking for is "repartee" 😀
There are a lot of crawfish joints in Atlanta.
Best part of crawfish 🦞 boils are the extra things like small potatoes and corn on the cob as you eat the crawfish eat the potatoes and corn too they are cooked with the boil so the same seasoning are in them too(sidenote I’ve never did the crawfish sucking most men don’t it’s kinda like men eating a banana 🍌 in public)
Softshell crab sandwiches are awesome. You suck the head, you do not inhale them! I have fond memories of crab boils in Maryland. Similar but different. Mmm, oysters. I had the best lobster in Maine but that looks great. New Orleans barbeque shrimp is great too.
If you're going to be in the Gulf Shores area of Alabama, visit Cafe Acadiana in Silver Hill. It's an amazing cajun restaurant in a small town of about 4000. The owner is from Louisiana and he does a fantastic job, I'm sure he would take care of ya'll. Get the boudin balls!
That made me so hungry. Louisiana has some of the best food.
I'm in Georgia I love Crawfish like shrimp but better or mini lobster.
We call em crawdads here in Oklahoma.
that restaurant is roughly a 5 minute walk from where i lived when i was in that area... good place to go.
Guys try Texas first then Louisiana and from there u can go to North Carolina and other States
Crawfish boils are huge in the South. From Texas to Louisiana🤘
More like Texas to Florida.
I really like your reactions with food, and I look forward to seeing your time here in the States!!! I hope you have a safe flight and stay safe over here!!!!!❤
You can buy them shelled and frozen.. then season well.
I am now an old-timer (Young at heart 79 years young).
Currently at a local eatery during "Mudbug" season, as soon as I walk into the establishment the waitresses know my order without asking.
2 sequential orders of "Mudbugs" (3 pounds each - 1.36 kilograms each)
When I was younger I ate 10 pounds on average but have no idea what my record is in one sitting.
As for seasoning foods, I grew up on a bland diet due to my late mother's dietary health restrictions. I joined the navy and all the food seemed to be extra bland wherever I was either aboard ship or on liberty at a port of call. Only spent 6 years in the navy and I am glad for able to enjoy the local seasoning foods.
I am a native of New Orleans and still residing in the city.
Alabama has a crawfish festivals every year between March/ April my favorite is in Faunsdale, Alabama
They have the best crayfish pie sooooo good
Athens Alabama has a brand new buccees. It's huge
Fun episode! You just missed crawfish season. You can still get them but the flavor is different. Safe travels.
The food you hate or don't like in England you will love here in America. It's prepared and cooked so different and has flavor.
There are Buck-ees locations in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia so you'll be able to get the jerky.
Crawfish boil is not the only way to eat them. I've even had them sauteed and served on a grilled steak.
I don't like shellfish either but I do love crawfish.
my mom brought me some “Hot and Spicy” beef jerky from Buc-ees in Texas, and wow is it spicy! it had me sweating 😂
I lived in Nebraska (never tried crawfish) and my neighbor would do a crawfish bowl once a week and my entire house smelled delicious.
Oregon here. I've caught them here and just boiled them in water, no spice. Serve with melted butter, awesome.
@@heywoodjablowme8120just buy a can of Old Bay seasoning. It'll elevate it immediately.
You're coming during Thanksgiving? That's the busiest travel time here all year!
Hey Gaynor you gotta get Aidan to try some honey mustard with some chicken or something haha. I think you said you tried to sneak it on a sandwich or something and he wasnt having it, lol. If he gets fries with a meal in a restaurant it's usually really good honey mustard. Worth a shot! You guys are going to have so much fun. Best wishes to all of you!
They have Buckeys in Georgia also now not sure about Tennessee or Alabama 13:48
Bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nahhh they are INHALING it that is crazy. Bro sucking on something and inhaling something is two different things
You can find crawfish in TN… most people don’t like crawfish, but I love ‘em
It’s not crawfish season right now. Where are they getting this crawfish?
Unfortunately Crawfish season is between February and July. Might be able to get some, but it won't be the same. There is tons of other food that will be amazing to try.
There is a Buc-ee's in Crossville, TN (between Nashville and Knoxville).
Maryland is known for the blue crabs, they are so good.
“Normally when you see these, something bad is about to happen”
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Southern food is intensely regional. For a decent crawfish boil, you need to be down on the Gulf Coast, either South Louisiana or South East Texas. I'm from Louisiana and I find most food outside my region to be rather bland.
Haggis is my favorite scottish dish, followed by blood sausage.
Bucc-ee's has expanded to other southern states.
It's also going west too. There's going to be one in Colorado... further from where I live in Utah.
Crawfish is the capital of the world in raising and cooking with crawfish boils!
In texas we add sausage corn and potatoes to our crawfish boils
Those blue crabs are a MARYLAND delicacy >:(
Honestly though, love the Jolly boys. I’m so glad they went to Louisiana, my family has roots there and their reaction to gumbo probably gave me life for the next ten years😂
Blue crab can be found along the entire east coast of the U.S. every coast in the Gulf and Carribean, and along the east coast of South America almost down to the southern tip. I've had fresh caught blue crab at my place in Curaçao. They are not distinctly a Maryland thing and Old Bay is overrated. 😉
Buc-ees is in Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and of course Texas
You can get them where you are just go to the nearest river take a coat hanger and put a fish head at the end put it like 3 feet in the river when you get like 20 scoop them up and a few minutes later there will be another 20 I caught like 200 of them there so good
I usually start with 3 pounds and go from there if i order them in a restaurant.
There is basically 2 varieties of Louisiana cooking: Cajun and creole. Paul Prudhomme classified them as country and city, with creole being city. Creole is where this video is shot in Belle Chasse, which is a suburb of New Orleans. The New Orleans metro is mostly creole cooking, the rural areas to the west, Cajun country, is Cajun. For most dishes, the difference is minor and a matter of taste. Do you use tomatoes in a particular dish or not? Do you use garlic or not? Unless you know, you cannot tell the difference.
Crawfish is different. The way crawfish is boiled in New Orleans is totally different from the way they do it in cajun country. These differences change the seasoning on the final dish (things like the use of crab boil in the water or not). Thankfully, these 2 guys got their crawfish in Belle Chasse, because they taste 1000 times better here than in SW Louisiana. Then again, im from New Orleans I may be biased :)
Buc-ees are based out of Texas but are through out the south best bet is once y’all get state side look up the closest location from where y’all are staying
Crawfish season is early in the new year (February) but they're are often farm raised and available year round. DO NOT EAT THE CORN COB IN THE BOIL, IT RETAINS ALL THE RED PEPPER AND WILL MAKE YOU MISERABLE!. It's alot of work for little bites of meat, sometimes not flavor as much as too spicey. The yellow soft gel has the most flavor. Soft shell crabs are absolutely delicious. Break off the tail, pull off the top "knucle" and pinch the meat out from the tail end to the thick end.
Y'all seem genuinely excited to come to the USA. Maybe even more than I am about y'all coming!😅
Most people when eating crawfish are us8drinking beer. So time flies when with company.
Unfortunately crawfish season is over and really starts getting going in January early February here in south Louisiana
As a Louisiana native who has lived in other southern states…. Crawfish are ONLY served correctly in southern Louisiana
You can do this with shrimp instead of crawfish when they aren't in season.
Lot's of good food in the south but especially South Louisiana where the Cajun influence is strong.
What cajun influence? You brought nothing to Louisiana so how can you influence the cuisines/culture. If cajuns was so influential why there's no good food culture on the east coast where they landed first? Where's this spicy food, seasonings music? Stop taking credit for stuff you had nothing to do with.
I was born in Thibodaux La. My comment did not take credit for anything you assume too much.
I went and got boudin today! I have to have beer to drink with crawfish.
cant wait to hear about your American adventures! were in Arkansas right next door and its a lovely part of the country imo gonna be a little chilly i think
If you can find a Cuban restaurant that has Cuban coffee you must try it and a Cuban sandwich.