Have neighbor who is from The Big Easy and for the last five years, she has 250 pounds of what she calls crawdads for a local block party shipped overnight to BWI.
The 1st weekend in May, we had the block party, her husband and father (who also flies in from The Big Easy) boil them with garlic, Italian sausage, corn on the cob, potatoes and whole lot of hot seasoning. WOW, it is friggin great and all donated by them. Generally 100 people & rugrats show up and of course the booze is flowing freely.
They have two big cookers going at a time and I believe they spread the 250 pounds over 8 pots.
Sounds like an outstanding time. Yay for good neighbors.