A Texas phenomena that I have also noticed is that come Spring, Texans go crazy for crawfish. I never really ate any mudbugs when I was growing up here in Texas. My brother and I would dig them up to play with from the ditches in our front yard in Jacinto City but I don’t recall eating any until my early 30’s in 1984 or so. I think they are tasty but would, quite frankly, have someone else peel them for me, giving me the tails to make my killer crawfish pie or some spicy etoufee. Eating them fresh boiled is a physical experience. Prepare to splash yourself and those around you with some of the juice. If your fingers, forearms and lips aren’t burning after eating a dozen or so, then you aren’t doing it right. I also learned from my sister that chickens love the shells from these tasty tidbits, however if you feed them to your chickens, the eggs produced shortly thereafter will have orange yolks. That did not deter me at all. The eggs were quite tasty. Don’t knock it until you have tried it.