Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Louisiana, tagged Cajun, Fried catfish, Fried oyster, fried shrimp, New Orleans, Po Boy, Poboy, Sandwich on April 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ask a Cajun what his favorite lunchtime meal is, and he’s likely to choose a po’boy, south Louisiana’s answer to the hero sandwich. What distinguishes a po’boy from its sandwich cousins is the French bread, flaky on the outside and soft on the inside. It’s not a real po’boy if you [...]
Posted in Culture, Louisiana, Outdoors, Work, tagged Louisiana, Cajun, Offshore, Oil Rig, Drilling, Gulf of Mexico, Industry, Natural Gas, Oil Crash on April 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it was impossible not to feel the impact that the oil and natural gas industry had on southern Louisiana. Local businesses boomed with money from oil profits. Most people I knew had some connection to the industry, either by working in the oil field, or in one [...]
Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Friends & Family, Fun, Louisiana, Outdoors, tagged Cajun Riviera, Cameron Parish, Holly Beach, Hurricane Rita, Wiped Out on April 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Mais sometimes a Cajun just has to get away for a while. They need to kick back, relax, hang out with friends, and maybe throw back a beer or twenty. Growing up in Louisiana, there was no better place for this than Holly Beach, or the Cajun Riviera as we like to [...]
Posted in Cajun, Culture, Friends & Family, Fun, Gambling, Louisiana, tagged Cajun, Card Games, Casinos, Euchre, Gambling, Horse Racing, Louisiana Casinos, video poker on April 23, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Like most historically downtrodden people, we Cajuns have our fair share of vices, or what I like to think of as the four in’s: drinkin’, cussin’, fightin’ (not so much), and gamblin’. Now gambling is such a huge part of our culture, with so many different types, that they can’t all be detailed in [...]
Posted in Cajun, Culture, Gambling, Outdoors, tagged Louisiana, Cajun, Cockfight, Cockfighting, Cock Fighting, blood sport, Banned, Illegal sport, Tradition, Gambling, Cruelty to animals on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In 2008, Louisiana became the last state to ban cockfighting, yet again securing the states spot as the laughing stock of the country. Cockfighting is a spectator sport in which two specially bred roosters fight it out with razor blades or spikes fastened to their feet until one bird either dies or refuses to [...]
Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Louisiana, tagged Boudin, Boudin Balls, Boudin Links, Cajun, Cajun Sausage, Links, Louisiana, Pig Intestine, Poche's Boudin on April 18, 2008 | 23 Comments »
Crawfish, gumbo, and jambalaya may get all the glory when it comes to Acadian cuisine, but there is no more uniquely Cajun food than boudin. A simple food, boudin consists of cooked pork scraps, rice, onions, and seasoning stuffed into pig intestines. Nowadays, most places substitute pig intestines for artificial sausage casings, so [...]
Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Fun, tagged coonass, Honorary cajun on April 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Feeling a bit left out reading these posts? Have you been living in Cajun country for the last few years, but still don’t quite fit in? Well what you need to do is become an Honorary Cajun Citizen. It’s like being knighted, only better, and your only civic duties [...]
Posted in Cajuns in the News, Culture, Food & Drink, Friends & Family, Fun, Outdoors, tagged boiled crawfish, Cajun, crawfish, crawfish boil, Louisiana, primal on April 16, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Crawfish Boil. If those two words set off the waterworks in your mouth, then you just might be a Cajun. Don’t worry, that’s about as Foxworthy as I’ll ever get on you. I brought up crawfish boil rather than boiled crawfish because while boiled crawfish is a delicious food, a crawfish boil [...]
Posted in Cajuns in the News, tagged Broadcaster, Channel 10, Jim Olivier, KLFY, Lafayette, Meet your Neighbor, Passe Partout on April 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I just got word that long time Cajun broadcaster Jim Olivier has passed away at the age of 57. If you grew up in the Lafayette area in the 80s and early 90s, you probably know who Jim Olivier was. In the pre-500 channel era, it was hard to flip the channel without [...]
Posted in Cajun, Culture, Fun, Outdoors, tagged Cajun, Deer, Hunt, Hunting, Mounted, Shootin', Shooting on April 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There’s just something about being outdoors, enjoying the fresh air and becoming one with nature. It’s a place where you can sit in utter silence, reflecting on your life, your accomplishments and failures, your joys and regrets, the things that you are thankful for, and every now and then you get lucky…and get to [...]
