Louisiana crawfish invade ponds across the globe

New Orleans Times-Picayune ^ | April 14, 2003 | Mark Schleifstein

[sarcasm]

Giuseppe Sargentini's aquatic flower business in Viareggio, Italy, was almost wiped out by an invading army straight from Louisiana.

These attackers moved overland in 1995 from a staging area in scenic Massaciuccoli Lake, not far from the city of Pisa. Soon the ponds where Sargentini was growing lotuses for worldwide export had become a battlefield, and the delicate plants were vanishing, seemingly overnight.

[Types_with_Fist]

I wish these guys would invade Colorado. Crawfish are the only thing I miss about my homestate. Got a boiling pot ready to go.

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[Rebelbase]

In Italy, this can be easily cured:

Crawfish Scampi
Crawfish Parmesean
Crawfish with Marinara
Crawfish Alfredo
Crawfish Anitpasto........

[TomB]

"How y'all are? Dis be jus da start of my plan to take over da world, I garontee."

[LizardQueen]

They should dump a truckload of crawfish boil into that pond of his, rig up some sort of heat source, and mmmmmm.....

LQ

[Wrigley]

invasion ping

[Rifleman]

I was gonna suggest that the afflicted locals import some Cajuns to deal with the crawfish infestation. Then I realized that unless the local girls were REALLY (and I mean REALLY) ugly they would soon have a plague of coonasses to replace the plague of crawdads. NOT a big improvement.....:-)







For the humor impaired...I cannot think of a place that would not be improved by some hard working hard partying Cajuns. Except maybe Louisiana. They have plenty and should share with the rest of us.

[drstevej]

Don't blame me, we boiled 2500 pounds of these rascals last night at church! Many of them had their heads sucked!

[DH]

"In east Africa, people hate crawfish," Lodge said. "The thought of eating them absolutely repulses them."

They would rather have roasted human served over a bed of steamed rice and served with a goblet of warm blood.  For desert, a pile of squirming grubs topped with cow dung.  Now, that's what I call eating well!

[ffusco]

You beat me!

[ffusco]

LOL!

[al_c]

Soon, they'll be yelling "AAIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"

[ken5050]

Why can't they teach crawfish to eat kudzu?

[CoolPapaBoze]

Justin Wilson is about as authentically Cajun as Al Gore.