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This is aimed at the many MyBB users/members in Cape Town, from a desperate Vaalie (Pretoria)

As the crayfish season comes to an end on March 28, I'd like to ask some kind soul out there if they'd be prepared to do the trouble of sending me 2 or 4 live legal crays by courier (refrigerated) in a styrofoam container, or whatever. Naturally, I'm quite prepared to reimburse them for all associated costs.

Problem is, I can't find a fishmonger, or even a decent restaurant that has them fresh, here.

I'd be happy to hear from any willing party!

Thanks,
UncleB
 
Why live?

Why not just go and buy some crays from your local fishmonger? They will invariably actually be "fresher" than anything you get sent via a courier.
 
UncleB said:
This is aimed at the many MyBB users/members in Cape Town, from a desperate Vaalie (Pretoria)

As the crayfish season comes to an end on March 28, I'd like to ask some kind soul out there if they'd be prepared to do the trouble of sending me 2 or 4 live legal crays by courier (refrigerated) in a styrofoam container, or whatever. Naturally, I'm quite prepared to reimburse them for all associated costs.

Problem is, I can't find a fishmonger, or even a decent restaurant that has them fresh, here.

I'd be happy to hear from any willing party!

Thanks,
UncleB
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Save your craving
for live crayfish
for your next visit to Lamberts Bay :D


Hoxies in PTA West 012 319 0100
 
ToxicBunny said:
Why live?

Why not just go and buy some crays from your local fishmonger? They will invariably actually be "fresher" than anything you get sent via a courier.
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They've usually been frozen for many months...
I lived in CT for some years, and I believe I can taste the difference!
 
Many months?.. unless they're imported from far far away then that is highly unlikely.
 
When I lived in Jhb, Shun De restaurant in Chinatown, Cyrildene Jhb had a live tank always well stocked.
 
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UncleB said:
This is aimed at the many MyBB users/members in Cape Town, from a desperate Vaalie (Pretoria)

As the crayfish season comes to an end on March 28, I'd like to ask some kind soul out there if they'd be prepared to do the trouble of sending me 2 or 4 live legal crays by courier (refrigerated) in a styrofoam container, or whatever. Naturally, I'm quite prepared to reimburse them for all associated costs.

Problem is, I can't find a fishmonger, or even a decent restaurant that has them fresh, here.

I'd be happy to hear from any willing party!

Thanks,
UncleB
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You can't courier them though. I don't know of any courier that will allow it willingly ;)
 
Quotes out of Lawrence Greens' book " South African Beachcomber", Chapter 10 pages 109 onwards:

In the fish market one day Smith pointed out to me the large crawfish which people were buying. "why do they do it?" he enquired. "They always go for the big ones, possibly ten or even twenty years old, with coarse flesh as tough a boot, and just as difficult to digest."
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He was right of course. I remembered that undersized crawfish were caught specially for Government House years ago. Small crawfish of legal size are tender, like chicken. Not many people seem to know it.
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Crawfish decompose rapidly after death. That is why they are usually dropped into boiling water while still alive and sold as boiled crawfish. (death is instantaneous, and the RSPCA approves of this method)
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This book was written about life in SA on our coasts in the 1920's.

Seems like government has always been a bit rotten , even then.
And, it seems most have learnt very little in all these years about what is good to eat and what not.

And this why delicacies such as these should only be eaten when next to the sea, preferable the ones caught by yourself.
 
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