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How did Shrimp Boat Manny’s Begin? Back
in ’85 in Lafayette, Louisiana, Poppa Manny Rachal took him his little
son “Tee” Jake wit a shade tent, a boil pot, and some RC Cola in his
boat to go down to da bayou to catch some crawfish. Dem two Cajuns set
out dair crawfish nets and in hardly no time a-tall, dey had demseffs a
coupla ice chestes fulla crawfish.
But all of a sudden, a great big huge hurrycane whirlywin come
right up outta mostes no wares and pulled dat whole boat –
dem menfokes too – right up off da water! Fer True! Da whole
boat! Dat
big big wirllywin jus turnd dem round and round and round for too long
and when dat hurricane finally pooped out, Poppa Manny and Tee Jake was
in some waters dat musta been in anudda county! Dey wernt in no bayou
a-tall - no alligator, no
Cypress stump and no mosses, no wair! It was a big wide wide open kinda
water. Poppa Manny was feel’n kinda mossy in da head when da peoples
dair tole him dey was at Lake Livingston in TEXAS.
How on ert, he tought, was he gonna git hisself and his boy Tee
Jake all da way back to Lafayette? He sure hadn’t took no money wit
hisseff to go campin on da bayou! What WAS he gonna do?
Tee
Jake was tellin his poppa he was hungry but dat Cajun man was real
smart, him, when it come to food! Dey
walked down to da first gas station and filled up dat boil pot wit
water, pitched dair tent by da road and started boiling dem crawfish.
Den, in no time a-tal, peeples was stoppin and axin Poppa Manny
what was dat, dat smelled so mighty good! It didn’t
take dat Cajun man too long, him, to figure out to sell dem crawfish to
pay da way fer him and Tee Jake to git back to Lafayette!
Poppa Manny tole da famly all what happened to hisseff and Tee
Jake. So dey drove all da
way back to Texas to git dair boat.
But when dey got dair, all dose peeples kept axin Poppa Manny to
boil dem some more-a-dem real good crawfish. Well, no Cajun famly ever
passes up a good chance to show some hospitalty to dem dat dont know
about Cajun cookin! Da next ting you know, dair was a Shrimp Boat
Manny’s restrant in Livingston, Texas and poppa Manny put dat real
famous boat up in da airs in fronta da restrant!
Peeples from all over da places come by to eat dat good good
Cajun cookin at Shrimp Boat Manny’s and pass demseffs a real real good
time, and dey say… “Laissez les Bon Temps
Rouler!”……….. “Let the good times roll!”
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