Soooooo......

[Alex]

Oh, I've had what everybody agrees are very good crayfish. They're simply not good (to me, obviously a lot of people disagree).

I'm reminded of one of those Strange Foods shows on Food Network or TLC or something. The host was in one of the Scandinavian countries and went to a crayfish farm where the owners put on a boil for him. But none of them ever ate crayfish, weren't sure they'd like crayfish and so while they boiled them for him they had made other dishes for themselves.

Part of it could be psychological connections as a popular past times (for kids, adults had no use for them) was crawdad (as we called them in the Pacific Northwest) fishing in local streams. Essentially we'd just tie some kind of bait to a string and then try to slowly pull them up once they pinched into the bait. We'd then throw them back as eating such things never occurred to anybody.

The contest was generally to see who could use the most disgusting bait.