First You Make the Roux: Snails Killing Crawfish Harvest. 2020 Continues

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The invasive apple snail has shut down harvest at some crawfish farms in Vermilion, Acadia and Jefferson Davis parishes and has made its first devastating appearance in rice fields. In March, the invasive mollusks wiped out a 50-acre field of rice, marking the first reported case of the devastating appearance in rice fields. In March, the invasive mollusks wiped out a 50-acre field of rice, marking the first reported case of the snail damaging the crop in Louisiana. 

Edited July 20, 2020 by Xian

[HOOKEM4 5044]

Drain the swamp?

[Trey3216 15373]

A wake of devastation in that snail trail.   Second only to South Austin’s mom 

[WBT 20672]

How much will the bounty be on the snail shells?  Nutria tails are still $5 right?

[Sawbonz 27596]

Coonasses just gonna start making snail etouffee

[dcar00 14378]

so how fast can this "S" car go?

[Moby Ric 2058]

Fucking 2020

[Reagan1k 3024]

1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

Yeah-  this will be quickly resolved by changing a few menus and recipes.  
 

In 10 years we’ll be talking about the good old days when snails were cheap before the Hipsters made them the new fad food. 

[Herpa Derpa 6132]

[Brisketexan 105438]

Remember how I posted that 2020 only gets worse?

Yeah....it only gets worse.

[Js1 85602]

10 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

When the fuck are those Zombies you promised me gonna fucking show up.

Probably December after the cold winter weather mutates COVID in North America and we go all Walking Dead on each other 

[elfenix 34338]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Probably December after the cold winter weather mutates COVID in North America and we go all Walking Dead on each other 

[RDCanecutter 26476]

How can you not catch a snail. It literally moves as slow as a snail.

[UT_OB1 2225]

 

15 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Coonasses just start making snail etouffee

From the article: 

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The snails are edible but are known to carry rat lungworm, a parasite that can kill humans and other mammals.

 

Hard pass.

  

8 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

How can you not catch a snail. It literally moves as slow as a snail.

Also from the article, that i can't figure out how to embed, is a picture of sacks full of these bastards.  One farm estimated 2 snails/sqft.  One of the farms had so many they were having trouble disposing of the shells.   

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2020 by UT_OB1

[crash_davis 23115]

14 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Rat Lungworm is the disease and coonasses are the cure.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html

So no go on the raw. How about cooking it?

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48 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

 

From the article: 

 

Hard pass.

  

Also from the article, that i can't figure out how to embed, is a picture of sacks full of these bastards.  One farm estimated 2 snails/sqft.  One of the farms had so many they were having trouble disposing of the shells.   

 

 

 

Same disease is found in crawfish. Just cook em 

[crash_davis 23115]

escargot it is.

[tx 3 putt 77535]

Deep fry those fuckers 

[Sam Lin 3563]

On 7/20/2020 at 8:52 PM, Reagan1k said:

In 10 years we’ll be talking about the good old days when snails were cheap before the Hipsters made them the new fad food. 

Already saw a place advertising snail caviar as the new thing.

[RPM 26360]

Snail po'boy