Crawfish Boil Hats

Crawfish boils are Louisiana's answer to a backyard barbecue: a sack of mudbugs dumped on newspaper, cold beer, and a crowd that eats with its hands. Gulf transplants carry the ritual with them wherever they move, which is why a crawfish collection travels past the Gulf South. These hats carry both the plain identity and the running arguments the ritual produces. MUDBUGS and CRAWFISH say the word two ways; RAGIN' CAJUN claims the Cajun identity outright. PINCH THE TAIL, SUCK THE HEAD is the boil's own proven catchphrase, worn here instead of explained. CRAWFISH AND COLD BEER and A SACK OF CRAWFISH IS A PARTY name the two things the ritual actually requires. CRAWFISH BOIL MASTER claims the job of running the pot. THE CORN IS THE BEST PART OF A CRAWFISH BOIL takes a side in the boil's real argument - corn versus potatoes versus the crawfish itself - and LENT IS CRAWFISH SEASON ties the ritual to its Catholic calendar, when seafood stands in for meat on Fridays and boils fill the gap. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The two strongest lines, PINCH THE TAIL SUCK THE HEAD and RAGIN' CAJUN, each get a second colorway. Pick the one that explains the ritual, or the one that just claims it.