Crawfish, crayfish, mudbugs
Hugh Horton
somewhere in the Spanish speaking world since my dictionary gives a couple
of translations - congrejo del rio, cámbaro, ástaco. As New Orleans native
who intends to emigrate to Mexico in a few years I'm very interested. While
there is much here that I will be happy to leave behind forever I must admit
I am apprehensive about never again pinching a tail or sucking a head.
Apologies in advance for the crosspost.
Hugh
Victor M. Martinez
>Has anyone noted the existence in Mexico of crawfish? They must exist
Hmmm... I never saw a crawfish until I lived in NOLA. I've never seen them
in Mexico or ever heard of them there.
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Jerry Jungmann
"Hugh Horton" <hughh...@email.msn.com> wrote in message
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There is crayfish farming in the Northeast. Some of them are quite large -
prawn size. The common term in Mexico is "langostino", and they are
commonly found in restaurants.
Jerry
Felix
of family in Northern Mexico and we called the "cámbaros".
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Hugh Horton
northern Veracruz, etc? And we are talking about crawfish, like we wannabe
coonasses eat, right? I only ask because every (Latino) reference to
langostino I find is either small rock lobsters or some sort of prawns.
Technobarbarian
No apology necessary for the crosspost, as this is both on topic to both
groups and an interesting question. I got interested enough to do a search
at www.google.com under Mexico and crayfish and came up with all sorts of
interesting links. As I suspected there are crawdads in many parts of the
world, including Mexico. Here are a couple of interesting links, there are
many more.
http://www.uku.fi/english/organizations/IAA/afsessay.html
http://www.facmed.unam.mx/acuicil/
Dennis
Jerry Jungmann
Yes - those areas. I don't know the Latin (as in Roman Latin) name for the
particular species, but they are of the crayfish family. Restaurants in
Mexico take the liberty of terming them "langostinos". Some are larger than
what we're used to seeing, but many are the same old crawdads. Do a search
with "langostino", "menu" and "Mexico". Or, the following is a site which
lists Mexican "market" words http://www.earthfoot.org/mercados/menuword.html
You're correct that most references to langostino refer to the species
typical of Chile, Peru, Argentina and European (Spain, France) countries
which resembles a prawn.
About 15 years ago, I was able to purchase that type of "langostino" raw
frozen tail, product of Chile, from a wholesale food purveyor (now defunct)
in South Texas. Last year I attempted to order "langostinos" from two
different purveyors. I knew something was wrong because the count per pound
didn't make sense. Their "langostinos" were, in fact, crayfish tails.
Although the salesmen knew the type of langostino I wanted, the terminology
here has obviously been impacted by our proximity to Mexico.
Jerry
Victor M. Martinez
>prawn size. The common term in Mexico is "langostino", and they are
>commonly found in restaurants.
All the langostinos that I've eaten in Mexico are not crawfish, but a
prawn-like critter, rather large. I believe it's the same animal the
french call langoustine.
Wayne Lundberg
underwater along river banks in Veracruz. We caught them by hand then cooked
them in chilpachole.
ted samsel
My kayaker friends who go to the areas near Orizaba & Jalapa say there
are
some great crawfish dishes in that area, often in a pipian-type sauce.
And the local critters are HUGE.
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Wayne Lundberg
do have clinchers that can take a hunk out of a finger. I hated fishing
them!
Wayne
Technobarbarian
"Wayne Lundberg" <Wayn...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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COOL! Big ones! The ones we caught back home in the northwest were small
enough that it only hurt without causing much of any damage. They're so easy
to trap that unless I was feeling lazy I always felt that bare handed was
the only fair way to catch them.
Dennis