I confess that one of my favorite parts of either making or going to a crawfish boil is what happens toward the end.
Everyone has eaten their fill of mudbugs, leaving behind a mess of heads, claws and tail shells scattered all over a newspaper-covered table. Any leftover corn and potatoes are cold. The sausage, long gone. But there are almost always still whole crawfish that didn't get eaten.
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