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(5,327 posts)Why do I love her so?
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Mardi Gras. Crawfish season. Sipping coffee and chicory with your fingers dusted with the powdered sugar from the beignets you just wolfed down. Drinking Dixie beer, fishing for catfish in the bayou with good friends. Seeing a snow white egret flash across a dark gray sky that's about to burst open with sheets of rain.
Need I go on?
I only lived in New Orleans for 5 years about 40 years ago, but they were my formative teen years. The sights, smells and tastes will never leave my heart.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Never lived in LA, but we've had some happy visits, and I'm cooking shrimp etoufee today.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)shortly before serving, so hurry.
mitch96
(13,911 posts)Well for me you can start with the food...... Many fond memories eating boudin in Opelousas
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nolabear
(41,986 posts)But its deep in my soul, even as I watch from the PNW and grin grin grin.
Who dat say they gin beat them Dems? 😄⚜️
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Note: Rockin' Sidney wrote the song and taught it to Fogerty; he's the dude playing the accordion. I wish I knew who the sax player was.
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)After thinking it was a Creedence song for ages ...
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Bakersfield played more than just Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
LeftInTX
(25,370 posts)Stallion
(6,474 posts)(and Bob Wills is still the King)