UT Tyler Holds Its Annual Crawfish Boil at Harvey Lake

On Monday, April 14th at The University of Texas at Tyler, the Office of Marketing and Communications hosted its annual Crawfish Boil at Harvey Lake deck, one of the kick-off events for Student Appreciation Week, an event that runs all week (April 14th through 18th).

Despite the cold and rain, hundreds of students began lining up before the actual start time of 11:30 for the lunch. The crew in charge preparing and serving the crawfish began setting up for the event well into the morning, graciously braving the cold weather to provide the students with an excellent free lunch. They cooked hundreds of pounds of crawfish, corn on the cob, and potatoes today, and for that we are extremely grateful.


Hundreds of students were eager to eat, as the line ran from the source of the food all the way to the cashier's office, and even longer after students got out of their morning class to make their way to the food. The 10+ minute wait was well worth it, because the crawfish was ridiculously good. Definitely worth going next year if you missed it on Monday!

Go to more events this week for Student Appreciation Week! There will be events on campus, such as movie nights and sports games all week, as well as many more fun things to do, all for the students at UTT!

Post Crawfish boil

Did you know that craw fish are most active at night?

They are in fact more active at night.

We just had a craw fish boil here for Patriot Days.

Gabby blogged before hand about it and now I  am happy to tell you about my experience.

My boyfriend convinced me to go even though I was happy in my room studying and stewing over my chemistry lab test that is occurring tomorrow.

The event was packed and the food was delicious. They offered some Popsicles to help with the heat and to accompany with the spicy-ness of the craw fish.

One of the people we were sitting with while we enjoyed our craw fish went and asked to have a live craw fish. He actually was given one.

My blogger instincts kicked in and we had a little photo shoot.
I had so much fun! and nice full stomach! 

More fun events are coming as Patriots Days continues!

Hopefully I can document them !

Update:

I did attend another Patriot Day event!

For which I got cool ring that was stamped on site!

It says Kevin, who is my boyfriend who I go on all

those vacation with and generally spend all my time with aside from the important things.

He got a ring with Emmy on it.

:) 

Annual Crawfish Boil at UT Tyler!

UT Tylers  

Kicks off Patriot Days with crawfish boil!!!!

If you are on campus at 11:30 on Monday, April 14th, come down to Harvey Deck and enjoy crawfish!

Unfortunately, last year I was not able to go to because of work but tomorrow, OH! IT. IS. ON!
I plan to go there with friends RIGHT after our class. But try to get there early if you are impatient, cause the line gets long FAST!

I hope you guys can make it for some yummy crawfish!

PS. If you are like me and you really don't want to see shells of crawfish around campus ground, not interested in the smell or flies, please do clean up after yourself! We have trash can around campus guys! Let's utilize them !:)

Also check out the Patriot Days page for scheduled events throughout the week!

Improper Table Manners Needed

After the crawfish boil yesterday for patriot days, I have to say I was quite impressed with UT Tyler’s ability to devour some crawfish. There were however a few stand outs that looked lost with the delicious creatures or some even scared on how to go about eating it. For those special people, I’ve decided to give you a quick guide on how to eat your crawfish. Before you can even eat the crawfish, you have to be prepared, here’s how.

• First of all, the crawfish is dead. It can’t pinch you so please don’t act all afraid.
• Secondly, you can’t eat a plate of crawfish and do it cleanly. If you plan on enjoying it, it will get messy! Get napkins, newspapers, whatever.
• Thirdly, it’s spicy. Please don’t pull a rookie move by having to run back and grab a bottle of cold water to quench the fire. Have it ready!

Now to actually eat the fish.

• Attack the crawfish. Yes, pull the tail from the body
• Next, pry apart the shell and get the tail meat
• Finally, eat the tail and if you choose suck out the juice from the head
• On to the next one

For full details, go here. Now that you’ve been informed, next year please step up to the challenge. No mercy on the crawfish!