[Daffynition]

And Swamp Yankees have some great recipes handed down through generations from forefathers who lived off the land. So?

I was so pleased to have found my great-grandmother’s recipe for preparing canvasback duck this morning. Joy!

My *point* is that older deer provide tougher meat than the young ‘uns...and prep is somewhat different.

If you use your lobsters (or are those crawdads [I can’t tell]) as an example; the larger [3# up] ones are much tougher than the smaller ones; and hard shell lobsters are different than soft shell. Jes sayin’

[BBell]

They are crawfish. The biggest difference between up north and down here is you can live off the land year round down here. There is always something you can grow,hunt or catch. My Mother lives in Indiana and growing up they had an acre garden and all summer long they would can and can. And that includes beef and fish. Never pork of poultry.

While I'm on the subject of game I have lived a lot of places and everything is bigger up north when it comes to game. Deer, rabbits, squirrels etc. I figure it's because of the harsh winters that the game has to endure.