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YOU MIGHT BE A CAJUN IF...
1. You start an angel food cake with a roux. 2. You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what he means. 3. You gave up Tabasco for Lent.
4. You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather." 5. You can look at
a rice field and tell how much gravy it will take to cover the rice. 6.You think the head of the United Nations
is
Boudreaux-Boudreaux-Guillory. 7. Watching Wild Kingdom inspires you to
write a cookbook. 8. You think boudin, hog-head cheese and a
Budweiser
is a bland diet. 9. You think Ground Hog's day and Boucherie Day
are the
same holiday. 10. You take a bite of 5-alarm Texas chili and
reach for
the Tabasco. 11. Fred's Lounge in Mamou means more to you than
the Grand
Ole Opry. 12. You have an "envie" for something instead of a
craving.
13. You use two or more pirogues to cover your newly planted tomatoes to protect them from a late frost. 14. The horsepower of your outboard
motor is greater than the motor in your car. 15. You pass up a trip
abroad to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge. 16. Your
children's favorite bedtime story begins with "First you make a roux..." 17.Your school teacher teaches the 4 basic food groups as: Boiled seafood, Broiled seafood, Fried seafood, and Beer. 18. You're asked to
name the 4 seasons and reply "Onions, celery, bell pepper, and Tony's." 19. You let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled. 20. You
describe a 7 course meal as a 6-pack and a pound of boudin! 21. You
describe a yard of boudin and cracklings as "breakfast." 22. Your mom/spouse announces each morning, "Well, I've got the rice
cooking,
what will we have for dinner?" 23. None of your potential
vacation
destinations are North of the old Mississippi River bridge ***(A bridge in Baton Rouge on Hwy 190)** 24. You think of gravy as a beverage.
25.You learned bourre' the hard way - holding
yourself upright in your
crib. 26. You consider the 4 seasons as: winter, spring,
summer, and
hunting!! 27. Your high school band's rendition of the
National Anthem
begins with, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo..." 28. You stand up
when they play "Jolie Blonde." 29. Any of your dessert recipes call
for
jalapenos. 30. You consider Breaux Bridge the capital of the
state, and
Lafayette the capital of the nation. 31. You think the Mason-Dixon line
is at Bunkie. Greg Hopper
"Why is it that our children can't
read a Bible in school, but they can
in
prison?" |
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