Nothing says Good Friday like a Louisiana crawfish boil

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Good Friday in Louisiana means a number of individuals are firing up their pots for a crawfish boil.

The proprietor of Capital Metropolis Crawfish, Will Boutte, mentioned this weekend is an enormous deal for native companies.

“That is our busiest weekend of the yr for certain,” Boutte mentioned. “This beautiful a lot makes or breaks our yr.”

And when you don’t know the place to get the tasty seafood, the Crawfish App can assist you find your subsequent sack.

“That is by far the tremendous bowl Sunday of crawfish season,” Laney King, co-founder of the Crawfish App mentioned.

The app was launched 5 years in the past and connects folks from throughout Louisiana to sellers of their space. It additionally gives up-to-date costs, rankings, and whether or not the crawfish is dwell or boiled.

“This week is definitely our highest trafficked week on the app all season lengthy,” King mentioned.

A gradual movement of shoppers got here and left at Capital Metropolis Crawfish to choose up their meals on Friday, together with Billy Maxwell.

“I purchased a sack of dwell crawfish, so, we’re excited, we’re going to boil them tonight, and have a bunch of family and friends over,” Maxwell mentioned.

Boutte mentioned he sells roughly 30,000 kilos of crawfish over the vacation weekend. That’s thrice extra crawfish than on a mean day and is doing his half in conserving the native custom alive.

“Oh yeah, you’re positively in Louisiana when you’re consuming crawfish and going to a crawfish boil,” Maxwell mentioned.