Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. During springtime in Louisiana, you don’t have to go far outside your door ...

They go by a variety of names. Some call them crawfish, crayfish or crawdads. Others dub them mudbugs, ditchbugs, yabbies — even freshwater lobsters. But no matter what you call them, they reach their ...