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118 days until the Arkansas football game!!!!! Season opener for LA TECH!!

This day in history: 1980
The southbound span of the famous Tampa Bay "Sunshine Skyway" bridge was destroyed when the freighter Summit Venture collided with a support column during a storm. Over 1,200 feet of the bridge fell (with several cars and a bus) 150 feet, killing 35 people.
What tragedy had occurred within a mile of the bridge just months earlier? ?(think of a "color" and something prickly)

Good to see ya OLDBLUE.

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I made a suggestion to James at Tech&Tails. I said they could up the event by several notches by having banana pudding for desert. He said he would write that down!! Does anyone else think that would be a good idea??

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Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD

I made a suggestion to James at Tech&Tails. I said they could up the event by several notches by having banana pudding for desert. He said he would write that down!! Does anyone else think that would be a good idea??

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My father-in-law said the same thing to me.

108 days until the Arkansas football game!!!!! Season opener for LA TECH!!

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Originally Posted by 70TECHGRAD

I made a suggestion to James at Tech&Tails. I said they could up the event by several notches by having banana pudding for desert. He said he would write that down!! Does anyone else think that would be a good idea??

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Serving dessert at a crawfish boil is soooooo N.La.

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Originally Posted by Champ967

Serving dessert at a crawfish boil is soooooo N.La.

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So. A crawfish boil is so N.La,

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Originally Posted by Houston Techsan

So. A crawfish boil is so N.La,

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No sillyhead. And I didn't say it was a bad thing.

Growing up in and around New Orleans, crawfish boils were a part of my upbringing. I don't remember my first one, because I was in diapers. But I was never offered cake, pie, ice cream, banana pudding or anything else sweetened at a crawfish boil until I went to Tech. Then I married into a N.La family and learned that serving dessert is considered an integral part of a crawfish boil in most locales above Alexandria.

That doesn't mean I dislike it ... but I've observed it's a distinctly N.La custom

No sillyhead yourself (being funny not sarcastic) what I was saying is that crawfish boils are not a N. La. thing, so of course they serve dessert. And banana pudding (with vanilla wafers) is great with anything I can think of. Here in SE Texas it would probably be Blue Bell Home Made Vanilla ice cream.

I caught crawfish from a ditch in Winnsboro when I was 5 and my grandmother boiled them on the kitchen stove. I'm as north-Louisiana as you can get and I've never had dessert at a crawfish boil unless corn, taters, and sausage is considered.

Crawfish need a good side of "poke sallat!"

(now that would be N. La)

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Originally Posted by Champ967

No sillyhead. And I didn't say it was a bad thing.

Growing up in and around New Orleans, crawfish boils were a part of my upbringing. I don't remember my first one, because I was in diapers. But I was never offered cake, pie, ice cream, banana pudding or anything else sweetened at a crawfish boil until I went to Tech. Then I married into a N.La family and learned that serving dessert is considered an integral part of a crawfish boil in most locales above Alexandria.

That doesn't mean I dislike it ... but I've observed it's a distinctly N.La custom

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I've heard of this custom, too. Lifelong Monroe/West Monroe resident and I've never seen it myself, but I have heard about it. The only dessert I need with a crawfish boil is a few bottles of beer, personally.

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Originally Posted by Built4Speed

I've heard of this custom, too. Lifelong Monroe/West Monroe resident and I've never seen it myself, but I have heard about it. The only dessert I need with a crawfish boil is a few bottles of beer, personally.

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Same here, but you can leave off the boiled crawfish.