Posted in Culture, Friends & Family, Fun, Uncategorized, tagged Breaux Bridge, Cajun, Cecilia, High School Football, Jake Delhomme, Kevin Faulk, Louisiana, Marshall Faulk, NFL, Terry Bradshaw on May 19, 2008 | 11 Comments »
On Friday nights between August and December, small town Cajuns can be found enjoying the local high school football game all around Acadiana. They go for different reasons, but whether it’s to root for a relative’s son, or support their home town, high school football is cheap, fun entertainment for the whole family. It’s [...]
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Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Fun, Outdoors, Uncategorized, tagged Fox Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Second Squirrel Season, Spring Squirrel Season, squirrel, squirrel day, Squirrel Hunting, Ville Platte on May 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
If it’s got four legs, a Coonass will shoot it, clean it, throw it in a pot and make a gravy out of it. This saying even holds true for the tastiest member of the rodent family, the squirrel. And while these critters are scrumptious, they’re even more fun to hunt.
Squirrel [...]
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Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Friends & Family, Fun, Outdoors, Uncategorized, tagged boucherie, cracklins, fried pork skin, graton, gratton, hog butchering on May 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Crunchy, salty, and almost 100% pure fat, cracklins are the original Cajun snack food. Cracklins, also known as grattons (grah-tawns), are the result of a poor people’s desire to use every part of the pig. Years ago, Cajun families and neighbors regularly got together for boucheries, or community hog butcherings. Every family pitched in [...]
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Posted in Cajun, Culture, Food & Drink, Friends & Family, Outdoors, Uncategorized, tagged Burned House Down, Cajun, Deep Fried Turkey, Fried Turkey, Peanut Oil on May 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Cajun people loved fried food. Name a food, and it can probably be made ten times tastier by dropping it in a vat of hot oil, at least that’s the Cajun culinary philosophy. Okra, eggplant, boudin and pig skin all benefit from deep frying, so it was just a matter [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cajun, Chris Deville, comedian, comedy, coonass, improv, James Carrier, My Lips is Chapped, Poo-Poo Broussard, Poooo, Poopoo broussard on April 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My Lips is Chapped! It’s a catchphrase recognized by Cajuns all over Acadiana, the Coonass equivalent of “What you talkin’ about Willis”. If you haven’t heard about Cajun sensation Poo-Poo Broussard by now, then you’ve been living under a rock. His appeal is almost universal among Cajuns, eliciting deep belly laughs (and [...]
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So I turn on the computer and see you gave my cuz over at stuffwhitepeoplelike a $300,000 book deal. Keeyaww! Man I liked to fall on the floor and die laughing when I read dat.
You couyons coulda had my book for the price of a seafood platter and a box of #2 buckshot! [...]
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Cajun’s love their alcohol, and they love it fast. If you ever had any doubt, then look no further than one of our greatest innovations…the Drive Through Daiquiri Shop. Just pull up in your car or truck and order a daiquiri off the menu. You can choose an individual or even [...]
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