Where you live/lived: Best natural foods you'll miss

[shootingstar]

[COLOR="Red"]Crawfish (crawdads, mudbugs) - Louisiana born and bred - not imported. If it has to cross an ocean to get here, it isn't worth eating.

Am not certain if I've had crawfish yet. Sounds like a type of big shrimp.

Just reading this whole thread, makes me want to memorize certain special regional foods to try if I ever get to visit certain areas.

Someone here mentioned hazelnuts. We do have a local poducer here that does sell great stuff. The Northwest coast is also known for its diversity of mushrooms. Some mushroom types are only found in our region. Must be the moist rainforests that make happy growing areas.

Admittedly the high price tag for certain mushrooms, so far is abit of a barrier for us to try cooking freshly picked stuff.

[OakLeaf]

I'd be surprised if you don't have crawfish in BC - they live in most of north America. We had them in North Dakota.

They're more like little lobsters than big shrimp I guess. Pick up a river rock and you've got a pretty good chance of seeing some underneath.

[shootingstar]

I'd be surprised if you don't have crawfish in BC - they live in most of north America. We had them in North Dakota.

They're more like little lobsters than big shrimp I guess. Pick up a river rock and you've got a pretty good chance of seeing some underneath.

Most definitely crawfish does not sound familiar to me at all. For certain, we never had them in Ontario in our lakes nor rivers for eating or have never heard of them in that area. But I'm an urbanite.

As for here, next time I would have to scout out our fish mongers' stalls more closely. The edible spotted shrimp, for instance is indigenous to our area.