Harrison
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I was thinking, a lot of folks make fun of Louisiana. Actually, it is a fine state with a lot of really nice folks. BTW, I am a Texan, and we are next door to La. and should know them if anyone does. Love them Cajuns.
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I'm a native Texan. Louisiana was the first place I lived outside of Texas. My family and I loved it. We had a great time fishing and hunting and eating.
smoothshooter
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I could not live there. Too flat, and high humidity summer heat 8-9 months a year. I hate having sweat running down my face and back all the time. Sweat enough here in SW MO in the summer as it is.
And then there are the fire ants. I refuse to live anywhere there are fire ants.
I prefer to live someplace where it gets cold enough for a few days each winter to kill most of the bugs and weeds.
If it weren’t for air conditioning, the population of TX, LA, MS, and AL would only be 20% of what it is now.
Houston and New Orleans are the two sweaty armpits of the United States.
And then there are the fire ants. I refuse to live anywhere there are fire ants.
I prefer to live someplace where it gets cold enough for a few days each winter to kill most of the bugs and weeds.
If it weren’t for air conditioning, the population of TX, LA, MS, and AL would only be 20% of what it is now.
Houston and New Orleans are the two sweaty armpits of the United States.
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THE PILGRIM
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I’ll pass on the humidity, heat and the insects.
Love the People, food and music.
Best Mudbugs I ever had was at Breaux Bridge.
Love the People, food and music.
Best Mudbugs I ever had was at Breaux Bridge.
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charlie sherrill
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Parts of Louisiana are like a foreign country. This is the interesting part. There is a mix of French, Spanish, African, Creole, American Indian, and a few folks from the British Isles and other parts of Europe. The culture and language are a little different and so is the food. Cajun food has spread and continues to spread to other parts of the country as people continue to learn how good it is. The heat and bugs don't bother me. I live about 100 miles from New Orleans in South Mississippi and my parents didn't put air conditioning in our house until after I went in the Navy in 1966. If I lived anywhere besides where I live now it would be somewhere in South Louisiana.
True, but how do you explain the PI?
Faulkner
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Other than a couple of weekend trips to NOLA my only long term experience with Louisiana was when I was part of a LE team that did a temporary duty assignment for a few weeks in Orleans Parish after Katrina. Overall, hurricane damage not withstanding, I was not impressed.
My only experience was in 1978 when I and a van full of long haired musicians headed to Mardi Gras for three days.
It was one of the best times I have ever had.
One of the guys with us had been there before and told us to take disposable shoes.
Sound wisdom.
It was one of the best times I have ever had.
One of the guys with us had been there before and told us to take disposable shoes.
Sound wisdom.
The few times I've had it, I really like creole (cajun?) food. Not fast food chain places. (Was at one in Denver a few years ago and it was plumb awful.) I'm talkin' independent restaurants. Per Charlie above, those folks know how to cook.
I"m not much for heat and humidity these days though. I find it wears on me more as I get older.
So, what's the difference between creole and cajun, food wise, ethnicity, and culture wise? Without any knowledge or experience, i kinda feel Cajun is country and creole is city...
Polk. Salad.
I"m not much for heat and humidity these days though. I find it wears on me more as I get older.
So, what's the difference between creole and cajun, food wise, ethnicity, and culture wise? Without any knowledge or experience, i kinda feel Cajun is country and creole is city...
Polk. Salad.
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I have been thru both several times, never stayed.
Done right this is good eats.
wife & I spent a week there this past October... mostly in Algiers and NOLA... was a grand time.. and we drove there from Nebraska... America is a beautiful country and people are good & bad everywhere... but the drivers down there need a little help... lol oh I miss the food & music
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I once had a job (oil related) that required me to visit New Orleans and Cajun Country (Lafayette/Baton Rouge) fairly frequently. I can’t say I was taken with the state and was always happy to return to Texas. Once had a Cajun roommate in college. He may as well have spoken Chinese. I could never understand anything he said.
Way back in 1966 I was in Fort Polk LA. Was happy to get out of there when I left and have no desire to ever go back. I think LA's state bird is the Mosquito.
The few times I have been to NOLA, i have enjoyed the food and the music. I was there only once in the summer, an experience I am not eager to repeat. Most of what I know about the rest of the state comes from reading James Lee Burke.
As for Texas, I like the Big Bend area. As for the rest of the state, I don’t have anything nice to say about it, so I won’t say it.
As for Texas, I like the Big Bend area. As for the rest of the state, I don’t have anything nice to say about it, so I won’t say it.
My wife Wendy's family is Cajun on her dad's side. They are from the Cecilia and Breaux Bridge area on the Teche Bayou in Saint Martin's Parish. Fun place to visit especially for the grub and how if those Cajuns like you they are a good hearted folk and generous. When I met her family on visits I learned that she was not kidding that some living there could have been in the movie Southern Comfort from the early 80s. She did have a great uncle who could have done the one armed trapper character played by Brion James perfectly, same speech, attitude and look but he had both arms. She told me to just stay near her and nobody would skin me alive...she hoped. LOL
LOL! Well, if you couldn't live in TX, LA, MS, or AL...y'all certainly couldn't live down here with us in sunny humid Florida! Heat, humidity, bugs, weeds, sweat, alligators, snakes, spiders, hurricanes...but lots of ocean and beach, cool natural springs, great food, theme parks (if you're into that sort of thing), no state income tax, and plenty of 2nd Amendment freedoms. We get a few months every year of beautiful cool weather, but otherwise thank goodness for A/C!
My "LA" time is limited to spending a month or so at the SAC NCO Academy in Shreveport and during the second grade when my family stopped in NO for a couple days on a trip to Mexico ('58?). My folks introduced me to Bourbon Street. The sights a second grader could see! I had cool parents.
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Tech school in Biloxi, Miss. and traveling the 90 miles to New Orleans for our weekends was a new & fun experience. Also enjoyed the Baton Rouge Symposium, Charlie Sides & I traveled for that memorable experience together. RIP Charlie!
Tech school in Biloxi, Miss. and traveling the 90 miles to New Orleans for our weekends was a new & fun experience. Also enjoyed the Baton Rouge Symposium, Charlie Sides & I traveled for that memorable experience together. RIP Charlie!
When I was about eighteen, I had a girlfriend from Morgan City.
I'm from the swamplands of Georgia and I couldn't understand a word she said.
The things we do for love......to quote 10cc.
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I'm from the swamplands of Georgia and I couldn't understand a word she said.
The things we do for love......to quote 10cc.
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40 some years ago I went to Dulac La. with a crew to retube a boiler in a fish plant. From the end of January to the middle of March. It was a terrible stinking place. We stayed at a little motel with a front porch. Sitting outside one night a hooker on roller skates came by looking for work. I do remember the food being pretty good.
Hooker on roller skates? That's different.
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Went to the Lafayette gulf coast offshore oil show once, back around the early 1980s. It could just as easily been called the offshore hooker convention. They were everywhere, and business was good. But I saw none on roller skates.
Spent a lot of time in Houma, Dulac, and Morgan City, but I don’t remember any hookers there. My company had an offshore service point in Dulac, and I usually stayed in the bunkhouse there instead of a motel. Not that there is a lot of choice in Dulac. At the time there was very little there. Houma was bigger and better. That was where many offshore rig helicopter services were based.
Spent a lot of time in Houma, Dulac, and Morgan City, but I don’t remember any hookers there. My company had an offshore service point in Dulac, and I usually stayed in the bunkhouse there instead of a motel. Not that there is a lot of choice in Dulac. At the time there was very little there. Houma was bigger and better. That was where many offshore rig helicopter services were based.
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