SoftShell Sammitch Lovers!! Unite!!

[Michelino]

Oh I guess it was OK when they railroaded Economy Hall out of the brackets, just to watch the "winner" get run over by Fais Do Do (http://www.nojazzfest.com/chat/showthread.php?t=560). And the fact that the number #1 seed Gospel Tent might lose to (http://www.nojazzfest.com/chat/showthread.php?t=559)a stage with no name, well Martha, Irma, Allan and the Doucet Boys have been known to show up there, so that's alright I guess. And then there's something they call "The Patsy" hitting the LMF In-store shows in the mouth. (http://www.nojazzfest.com/chat/showthread.php?t=572) Ok, like most people, I've never been to a Patsy, so maybe it's just sour grapes.

But now it's time to talk smack...

Cause they're making the King of Jazz Fest Treats: The Soft-Shell Crab Po Boy fight for it's batter-fried life against a styrofoam cup of overcooked pasta, cheese wiz and mud-bugs (get this...they're gonna ship the left-overs to New Jersey (http://www.nojazzfest.com/chat/showthread.php?t=449)).

Look you wanna git me a crawfish etouffee omelet for breakfast, like at Mothers on Fridays...K! That's good eatin!...Maybe you brought me some Crawfish Boudin or Crawfish Spinach Zucchini Bisque? M-m-m-good!. But you give me soggy macaroni and cheese and sprinkle in left-overs from yesterday's boil...that's kiddie food...WHAT SUPPLEMENTALS YOU BEEN DOING? I want the REAL DEAL, the sandwich that every year ALL the local critics rank as THE NUMBER ONE REASON TO ARRIVE HUNGRY AT THE GATES.


Cause when the gates open first Friday, be sure that some of the pasta-in-a-cup crowd will be knocking each other down to get to the poster booth (when they could of ordered on-line.) And others fans of the goopity goop will be stampeding to claim their turf (complete with NO TREPASSING signs) in the front of Acura, or maybe to slam down a half a dozen lounge chairs chained together in the space where people wanna dance at Fais Do Do.

But the real connoisseurs, the Jazz Fest hipsters and gourmets, we (and you of course) will be making our way over to the best damn food booth in the land (http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i193/Michelino/avatars/AnimationSoftshellandMe03.gif)...cause it ain't busy yet...you can just get your tickets and turn em right in for 10 bites of heaven...(Sure the catfish also looks good, maybe wait until after you've had another spider though)

So if you haven't voted...do it now (http://www.nojazzfest.com/chat/showthread.php?t=574). And then wake your friend or lover and tell them to vote (they were probably dreaming of a Spider Sandwich anyway!).

This one's for real....America is counting on you and IT'S TIME WE STAND UP AND SAY...THEY CAN'T TAKE OUR SOFT-SHELL CRAB PO BOY AWAY!!!!

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i193/Michelino/Misc/SoftshellEatsMonicaStar5.gif

[swag]

Mmmm, goopity-goop, (drool)...

There ain't no cheese in Monica. Just butter, cream, more butter, even more cream.

[pokerchick66]

Michelino, you had me at hello.

You're preaching to the choir on this one. I made sure I voted for the spider sammich first thing. Pasta in a cup? Please. I'll have what you're having. ; )

Seriously, I like the Crawfish Monica there okay but I know I can make it much better at home.

Viva la spider sammich! :D

[saturn]

I love them both as well, but the Soft Shell Crab has got to take it!

[csoul]

Loved, loved, loved the ss crab samich as a youngster. But I ate one while pregnant with my first baby soul and haven't been able to stomach them since. HOWEVER, out of loyalty to all my fellow threadheads, AND IN SINCERE HOPE that one day I will again crave the spiders, I have voted the goopity goop off the island;>

[pokerchick66]

Loved, loved, loved the ss crab samich as a youngster. But I ate one while pregnant with my first baby soul and haven't been able to stomach them since. HOWEVER, out of loyalty to all my fellow threadheads, AND IN SINCERE HOPE that one day I will again crave the spiders, I have voted the goopity goop off the island;>

Goop, the tribe has spoken.

[BigDag]

I believe Crawfish Monica has become the victim of a smear campaign. "Goopity-goop" indeed. :mad:

Politics is such a dirty game.

[pokerchick66]

I believe Crawfish Monica has become the victim of a smear campaign. "Goopity-goop" indeed. :mad:

Politics is such a dirty game.

Well, I hear there was a blue dress involved with goopity-goop all over it.

[BigDag]

Ha ha! Very clever, Poker.

[Lostcajun]

pokerchippy very clever "you had me at hello" Hey, I think it's time to fry up some ersters, all dis talk about softshellies is make me crave SEAFOOD

[Lostcajun]

personally I like my softshell crab with a crawfish monica chaser!

[rosetree]

Mic:
Is that a little electioneering that I see?????;) ;)

[Festvet]

Never really cared for the crawfish monica myself. The sof' shell sammich is #2, howevah...right behind the pheasant, quail & andouille gumbo (which just so happens to be the next booth ovah...just down a few booths from the rosemint iced tea. heaven in just a few sq. yards.

[Lostcajun]

Speaking of rosemint tea, dat stuff is dangerous

[Michelino]

Mic:
Is that a little electioneering that I see?????;) ;)

Consider it just one small patriotic voice...BTW Have you seen the size of the pasta-in-a-cup booth? Last year, I was over there twice (getting samples for quality testing purposes only), it was so huge that it had gobbled up the Fried Turkey Po Boy booth. No more of a little taste of Thanksgiving in May ...And what will they take away next to feed that maw...Crawfish Strudel? Maybe also the White Chocolate Bread Pudding with Lemon Sauce, only the finest dessert booth at any fair in the world. Is there no end to the madness?

[mangoon]

Gave my vote to the softshell, but wheres all the good old fashioned big heaping stryofoam cup of jambalaya love !!!

[Michelino]

Gave my vote to the softshell, but wheres all the good old fashioned big heaping stryofoam cup of jambalaya love !!!

Thank you my brother...one battle at a time

[Amy Winette]

Goop, the tribe has spoken.

The tribe has NOT spoken! Damn I hate waking up late on the west coast. There are plenty of threadheads who love love love the Crawfish Monica. It is the best thing at fest. I guess I'd better start a post to make sure the MONICA fans get to voting!!

[ohio]

Mic, according to Quint, the 'missing' booth's last year will be back this year, so long as those companies still exist...

Hey, did you all see who was starring in the new 'Charlotte's Web' movie?
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o291/bryanr1234/whaaat.jpg

[NYMAMA]

Thats just wrong.

[pokerchick66]

The tribe has NOT spoken! Damn I hate waking up late on the west coast. There are plenty of threadheads who love love love the Crawfish Monica. It is the best thing at fest. I guess I'd better start a post to make sure the MONICA fans get to voting!!

LMAO! Amy, I'm gonna have to make you some of mine the next time you're down here so you can have some real Crawfish Monica.

[Amy Winette]

You know PC I have heard that and I have tasted a lot of people's recipes for it but nothing comes close to the fest dish for me! I'm always willing to taste anyone's version of crawfish monica of course :)

[pokerchick66]

Now how good is this:

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o231/monica7966/sscrabpoboy-s.jpg

[pokerchick66]

You know PC I have heard that and I have tasted a lot of people's recipes for it but nothing comes close to the fest dish for me! I'm always willing to taste anyone's version of crawfish monica of course :)

I promise I will make you a believer. :D

[Amy Winette]

I do half believe you already :)

But still can't see fit to vote for a deep fried crunchy thing that pokes the roof of your mouth over the heavenliness that is crawfish monica . . .

[Lostcajun]

Crawfish Pokerchick? Hummmmmmmm.....

[pokerchick66]

Crawfish Pokerchick? Hummmmmmmm.....

LMAO!

And Amy, you're twisting a knife in my heart with that blasphemous smack talk against my beloved spider sammich. Crusty, indeed. It's crispy! ;)

[Amy Winette]

It's the shell of a crustacean (sp?), how much more crusty can you get!!

[ohio]

Now how good is this:

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o231/monica7966/sscrabpoboy-s.jpg
Those legs may just be the very best crunchy things in the whole world!

[ohio]

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o291/bryanr1234/1a.gif

[NYMAMA]

How about a Mango Freeze after all these vitals

[Calypsogirl]

Soft shell crab for me, with butter and lemon and a little hot sauce - YUM YUM. That was the only thing I ate more than once at Fest last year, and had it 3 times. In fact, I am craving one right now.

[BigDag]

Et tu, Calypsogirl?

[festivalgirl]

Why can't I have both? :confused:

[csoul]

NOW WE'RE TALKING!!! Some of all of it for me. To hell with this diet!!!!

[Michelino]

Well, I hear there was a blue dress involved with goopity-goop all over it.

There's so many Monica’s involved with that one sentence, it's making my head spin. Let me say that I intended this campaign to be a strictly bipartisan schmear. But now that the forces of darkness have taken the lead...we need more of this kind of innuendo...or any other tactic that you think might work.

[grisgris]

Could we get a grilled soft shell crab with no bread? I hate my cardiologist but love the spiders.

[breambob]

Could we get a grilled soft shell crab with no bread? I hate my cardiologist but love the spiders.

"NO SPIDERS FOR YOU !!!" - The Spider Sammich nazi

I'm gonna buy you one and if see you don't take a bite. LOL :)

It was years before I tried the catfish. Very, very good eats. Try one, folks, I'll eat more than one, I'm sure.

[grisgris]

"NO SPIDERS FOR YOU !!!" - The Spider Sammich nazi

I'm gonna buy you one and if see you don't take a bite. LOL :)

It was years before I tried the catfish. Very, very good eats. Try one, folks, I'll eat more than one, I'm sure.

MacDaddy I will cull the bread & inhale the spider so quick it will make your head spin. Hey why wasn't the Cuban sandwich on this poll?

[Michelino]

The Spider Sammich nazi


I wasn't going to mention it...but while doing research, I found the origin of the goopity goop. Seems like the original version consisting of milk, macaroni and large bugs was created by some guy in the 1920s. His last name was Schickelgruber.

[breambob]

"NO SPIDERS FOR YOU !!!" - The Spider Sammich nazi

I'm gonna buy you one and if see you don't take a bite. LOL :)

It was years before I tried the catfish. Very, very good eats. Try one, folks, I'll eat more than one, I'm sure.

Umm, that should be "if see bite don't take you."

I'll trade you a spider for a meat pie. Good deal for you !

[breambob]

I just went here:

http://www.nojazzfest.com/food/2006food.html

Godzallmatta. I'm dyin ova here...

[2ForTheFest]

It's got to be Crawfish Monica for me!

[grisgris]

Umm, that should be "if see bite don't take you."

I'll trade you a spider for a meat pie. Good deal for you !

I'll gladly trade you a Natchitoches meat pie for a spider. And yes yall I spelled Natchitoches correctly. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Amyloves...]

I'm madly in love with the crawfish beignets. I'm also in love with many other foods there too, but that's my favorite and my first thing every year. Of the two choices here though, spider sammich all the way!

Michelino...I love what this food discussion has done to you! You're a riot!

[pokerchick66]

I'm madly in love with the crawfish beignets. I'm also in love with many other foods there too, but that's my favorite and my first thing every year. Of the two choices here though, spider sammich all the way!

Michelino...I love what this food discussion has done to you! You're a riot!


Yesss! Another vote for the crab brigade. :D

[swag]

Mic, according to Quint, the 'missing' booth's last year will be back this year, so long as those companies still exist...


Where did you hear that?

I'd love to get the cracklins back, and also the Redfish blue cheese oyster salad.

[dumbtourist]

Hey poker...you got a picture of the crawfish beignets? You had photos of everything else!

[swag]

Could we get a grilled soft shell crab with no bread? I hate my cardiologist but love the spiders.

Well, I'm pretty sure your cardiologist wound say that a little fried seafood was not nearly as bad for you as the Monica sauce.

[rosetree]

mmmmmmm Cracklins......

[ohio]

Where did you hear that?

I'd love to get the cracklins back, and also the Redfish blue cheese oyster salad.
Quint said that in an interview last year, just before fest. I think it was in the TP, not sure.
The erster salad was fabulous!

[pokerchick66]

Hey poker...you got a picture of the crawfish beignets? You had photos of everything else!

Voila!

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o231/monica7966/CrawBeignets.jpg

[dumbtourist]

How the hell is anyone supposed to meet their training goals with all that great food you keep posting???? Damn...I'm hungry! But its a great photo!

[Amy Winette]

I'm madly in love with the crawfish beignets. I'm also in love with many other foods there too, but that's my favorite and my first thing every year. Of the two choices here though, spider sammich all the way!

Michelino...I love what this food discussion has done to you! You're a riot!

Those are on the crawfish sack plate, aren't they? That's currently losing to the cochon de lait po boy, so you might want to vote on that if you haven't already Amy!

[pokerchick66]

How the hell is anyone supposed to meet their training goals with all that great food you keep posting???? Damn...I'm hungry! But its a great photo!

lol, you asked, skeleton man.

[dumbtourist]

yyr....thank you, monni

[festivalgirl]

MacDaddy I will cull the bread & inhale the spider so quick it will make your head spin. Hey why wasn't the Cuban sandwich on this poll?

Now.....can't I have all three??? The Cuban sandwich doesn't get enough love.....except, of course, from me and Festival boy!! Muy Bueno.

[festivalgirl]

Where did you hear that?

I'd love to get the cracklins back, and also the Redfish blue cheese oyster salad.

It was just wrong last year without a bag o' cracklins and cold beer.:(


But all in a row...... Soft Shell, Cuban, Meat Pie ... a triple play!!!!!!!!

[Zydekitten]

Okay, I'm gonna back up my home girl, Amy Winette and vote for the Mudbugs Monica (my very first Fest food love):

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/Zydekitten/crawfishmonica_yummy.jpg

However, my true Fest food love (that I discovered later) is this:

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/Zydekitten/cochondelait.jpg

MMMMMMMMMMMMM, cochon de lait po boy [said in Homer Simpson voice, while drooling] . . .

[Michelino]

How the mighty have fallen...too far down the board at least..and as for the Calvary...I'm starting to get a little restless. But I still got the faith.

Calling all the members of the SoftShell Crab Po Boy Nation!

Get your friends, lovers and family on the line..(no pets please).

We need their votes ASAP

[Zydekitten]

So, where is the highly-contested election being held?? Hopefully Diebold isn't furnishing the balloting machines. :rolleyes:

[mangoon]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r70/mangoon13/crab-2.jpg

[Amy Winette]

Love it Mangoon!

But I suggest that you all vote Crawfish Monica if you haven't already. Though I see we're back to a 6 lead with 4 hours left.

[Zydekitten]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r70/mangoon13/crab-2.jpg

LMAOROTF!!!! Too, too funny, Mangoon - I'll be voting the other way unfortunately, but I love the Crab propaganda (not to mention your great Dean Wormer signature quote)!!

[ohio]

Now.....can't I have all three??? The Cuban sandwich doesn't get enough love.....except, of course, from me and Festival boy!! Muy Bueno.
I fell in love with cuban sammiches last year! and the line was always short (shhhhh, let's keep it a secret)

[ohio]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r70/mangoon13/crab-2.jpg
You da man, Mangoon!

[ohio]

http://viewfromthemountain.typepad.com/david_sobotta_weblog/images/softshells.jpghttp://www.cookinglouisiana.com/_Images/Seafood/crab-softshell-3.JPGhttp://deusexculina.robsama.com/_images/robsama/Crab-thumb.jpghttp://www.lintonsseafood.com/images/basket2.gif

[Amy Winette]

Kinda looks like Kentucky Fried Chicken . . .

[Zydekitten]

Kinda looks like Kentucky Fried Chicken . . .
Oooohh, and you know what heinous things the KFC chicken suppliers do to those poor poultry, don't you???

[shudder]

[dumbtourist]

Amy, you see this....its a spider sammich fan chasing a crawfish monica fan...thinking its gonna kill the cm fan...but look what happens....

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r66/dumbtourist/packman.gif

Crawfish Monica rules!!!!

[Zydekitten]

Oh yeah?

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/Zydekitten/pfc9_5.jpg
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/Zydekitten/store-products_11.jpg

I loves me my Monica SO much, I finagled a Crawfish Monica hat from the owner several years ago, right from his head, no less (like thiis one that they now sell, but in all red):
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/Zydekitten/store-products_35.jpg

[pokerchick66]

Amy, you see this....its a spider sammich fan chasing a crawfish monica fan...thinking its gonna kill the cm fan...but look what happens....

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r66/dumbtourist/packman.gif

Crawfish Monica rules!!!!

And here comes the crab bringing up the lead:

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o231/monica7966/crab_running_along.gif

[Amy Winette]

Haha, good one Poker!

[dumbtourist]

Wow...a ten vote lead with less than two hours to go...I can fell it....the victory dance is breaking out!!!

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r66/dumbtourist/dancingbar.gif

Look at all the Crawfish Monica fans celebrating!!!!

[Amy Winette]

Dare I say, stick a fork in it?

[Michelino]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r70/mangoon13/crab-2.jpg

At least we won the graphics derby by a mile.

If only they overcooked the crabs until they were mushy, maybe more people would have voted with us.

[Amy Winette]

They might have, it would soften that crunchy texture that some found objectionable ;)

I will give you the graphics win, a well fought battle, mostly clean and above board, well played Crab people, well played.

Now, bring on the Pig people. C'mon, Crawfish has got to take out Pork!

[Zydekitten]

Lovely Michelino: well-played, my friend, well-played.

However, your new avatar is rather creepy looking - somewhat like wee maggots squirming around, I liked the old spider po boy one better.

Beloved Amy: Hmmmmm, Cochon de Lait po boy vs. Crawfish Monica?! Sweet Cracker Sandwich, woman!! I don't think I can deal with THAT contest! :eek:

[Michelino]

They might have, it would soften that crunchy texture that some found objectionable

Tell them to put their teeth back in and bite a little harder.

I'm suddenly getting a yen for meat....make that pork.

[Amy Winette]

Ooh, Mich, the crab avatar was much better ;)

[dumbtourist]

This little piggy went to the market.....