Yikes! I have been firewalled out of all the links on this site... I may not be able to read anyone else's blogs at school. Lunch just won't be the same.

Off the regular theme of lies, I have accidently been collecting "recipes" for crawfish eating/serving tables. So far, random conversations have yielded four completely different designs, usually based on some family tradition, that range from portable and disposable, to deluxe.

Portable: You cover a round table with three layers of butcher paper, tape a consecutive series of garbage bags around the perimeter, pour the steaming crawfish in the middle, and have at it. When you're done, you wad the whole thing up and throw it away.

Deluxe: One Lafayette family has 45 eight foot wooden tables with slanted sheet metal chutes to slide the shells down into a metal, drawer-like removable bin under the surface. The sheet metal chute is trough-like, and surrounds a steam tray that runs down the center of the table, and holds 15 pounds of crawfish.

I'm fixin' to interrogate my work comrades here in La Marque. Got one of your own?