In southwestern Louisiana.
Richard's crawfish plate is in the foreground. Ken had finished his meal.
It took us awhile to figure out how to get the most meat from the crawfish. It was easy for locals to tell we were not from the area and not pros at eating crawfish :-) A lovely local woman came to our table and offered us some of her homemade sauce. She said crawfish needed real local sauce (not the restaurant kind). She had some and brought it to us - she was very sweet - typical of most of the people we met in southwestern Louisiana.
Breaux Bridge is a small town of over 8,000 people and a gateway to Cajun culture in southern Louisiana. About 28% of the families speak French at home and about 2% speak Louisiana Creole French at home. Breaux Bridge was officially designated, "La capitale Mondiale de l'ecrevisse" ("The Crawfish Capital of the World") by the Louisiana Legislature in 1959.
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