Crawfish Festival Rally 2009

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Fat Tuesday tomorrow!

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We Pennsylvania Deutsch folks in south eastern PA have a little more sedate way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday...Fastnacht Day. A fastnacht is sort of a doughnut without a hole. They are oh so good, but just like a lot of other Pennsylvania Dutch cooking they are fried in 100% lard! So they definitely ain't good for you. It is a yeast raised potato doughnut. They are best eaten warm, sliced down the middle with butter and table syrup, honey, or some other such sweet gooey stuff. The grocery stores around here try to pass off their regular flour doughnuts as fastnachts. But the only way to get real fastnachts is to have an elderly relative that has a good recipe or find a country church that has a Ladies Auxiliary group that makes them the old fashioned way and sells them. I'll be stopping on the way home from work tonight to pick up my fresh dozen and they probably won't last the night.

So besides Mardi Gras everybody be sure to have a Happy Fastnacht Day!

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We have paczki eating contests around here in south eastern CT... on Fastnacht Day.

How many overstuffed jelly doughnuts can you swallow in 5 minutes? (13 is the record. )

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And now, hot off the stove, Jambalaya!!

(We gotta get Smell-O-Vision sometime this century.)

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Come on May. I can taste the margaritas, mud bugs, jambalaya, and gumbo already.

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Virgin Hurricanes tonight. (It's a school night dontcha know.)

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it may be a virgin beverage on your end Don, but here it is triple strength...

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I just noticed this thread's got no music yet!!

Tab Benoit played a private concert just for us campers last year,
and this video was shot about a week before he played for us.
(He signed a copy of his CD for my kid too.)

It's time to do some Crawfishin'

YouTube - Tab Benoit at The Livery sings "Crawfishin' "

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Encore!!!...Encore!!!!....

smokin' pick mb!...dancin' in my seat

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...that guy was smoking hot. Do you remember the guy Saturday night that played the washboards? I cannot think of his name to save my life. He now put on a hell of a show to say the least.

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YouTube - TAB BENOIT PLAYING HARD

He played washboard with Tab on this song... he blew the roof off the place. I'm having a hard time remembering his name right now.

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Right the washboard guy, he was a friend of someone and just came out to jam. That guy was the highlight of all performances in my book. I never realized a piece of corrugated metal and four spoons could put out such incredible sounds. I hope he plays again.

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This thread has been idle too long. We have Cajun food and Cajun music, well how's 'bout some Cajun humor...

Boudreaux been fish'n down by de bayou all day an he done run outta night crawlers.

He be bout reddy to leave when he seen a snake wit a big frog in his mouf. He knowed dat dem big bass fish like frogs, so he decides to steal dat froggie. Dat snake, he be a cotton moufed water moccasin, so Boudreaux had to be real careful or he'd get bit.
He snuk up behine de snake and grabbed him roun de haid. Dat ole snake din't lak dat one bit. He was squirmin and wrappin hisself roun Boudreaux's arm try'n to get hisself free. But Boudreaux, him, hada real good grip on his haid, yeh.
Well, Boudreaux pried his mouf open and got de frog and puts it in his bait can.

Now, Boudreaux knows dat he cain't let go dat snake or he's gonna bite him good, but he had a plan. He reach into de back pocket of his bib overhauls and pulls out a pint a Tennessee hillbilly moonshine likker. He pour some drops into de snakes mouf. Well, dat snake's eyeballs roll back in his haid and his body go limp. Wit dat, Boudreaux toss dat snake into de bayou, den he goes back to fish'n.

A while later Boudreaux dun feel sumpin tappin' on his barefoot toe. He slowly look down and dere be dat cotton moufed water moccasin, wif two more frogs.

Life be Good down on de bayou.

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Maybe I should bring the deep fryer in case we need those funny donuts..

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Originally Posted by Over59

Maybe I should bring the deep fryer in case we need those funny donuts..

Over59,
Do you mean beignets or the Pennsyvania Dutch fastnacts?

Heck, with a deep fryer we could make another carnival favorite...funnel cakes, A.K.A. fried dough.

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lot o things ya ca do wit a deep flyher....

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Videos Posted by Fans of Big Sam's Funky Nation: Big Sam's Funky Nation @ The Blue Nile May 2008 | Facebook

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Wow...Now that's called a Funky overload with a capital F.....Awsome!!!!! and that was just the beginning.... Yah baby! BRING IT ON!

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can you actually have too much funk? Is that why they say, "I am in a funk" I always thought funk was a good thing. I mean they named a railroad after it, and it was a great railroad. Some called it "grand". But being "in a funk" is different than "getting your funk on". I guess what my point is, is that we hope those "in a funk" stay home and those wanting to "get a funk on" show up at the crawfish festival. I will caution some to not over due it the first night. You do not want to wake up the next morning "feeling funky", for that makes getting your "funk on" the next day a "serious funking" challenge.

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Originally Posted by 62overlander

I will caution some to not over due it the first night. You do not want to wake up the next morning "feeling funky", for that makes getting your "funk on" the next day a "serious funking" challenge.

Frank,
Thanks for the warning. I will have to behave myself as I have been known to get my funk on a little too early and end up feeling funky the next morming. In my advance age (43) The mind is willing, but the body isn't able. I just don't bounce back like I used to.