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Wed Aug-04-04 08:21 PM
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Poll question: What is your favorite Louisiana food? |
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:22 PM
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:24 PM
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3. We are talkin' Shreveport, Louisiana here. |
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Mama used to make that, too. Come to think of it, except for shrimp creole (which she learned to make from her Cajun roommate) Mama wasn't that great a cook.
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:27 PM
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8. I thought you could get CFS South of Maryland. |
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Almost every "Home Cooking" establishment here has it.
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Thu Aug-05-04 10:39 AM
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28. ah..you must have Straun's in mind |
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i love their breakfast and pies too
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Thu Aug-05-04 03:03 PM
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29. No, I don't know the place. |
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As I said somewhere else, mother used to chicken-fry steaks once or twice a week. My pop thought they were food. I mean thought they were good. anyway.
I grew up on a cow farm and pop did his own butchering. We et what was too old and stringy to sell. Pop could make "round steak" out of pretty near any cut of the cow. Mother developed pretty good biceps pounding that stuff enough to make it tender enough to fry. I reckon that accounts for my negative opinion of chicken-fried steak.
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Thu Aug-05-04 03:08 PM
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31. Mmmm, Murrells Chicken Fried Steak. |
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I would go there after working a hard day and eat the double chicken fried steak. My mouth is watering.
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Thu Aug-05-04 04:05 PM
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how about their breakfast...i love the ham they serve with breakfast!
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Fri Aug-06-04 08:45 AM
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Hotcakes too, with lots of cane syrup.
I could also scarf down the double cheesburger there.
My dad was a George's guy, but I will always be loyal to Murrells.
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:22 PM
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2. Shrimp creole by a long mile. |
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Just the way mama used to make it.
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:24 PM
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4. I know the spelling is wrong... |
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but how could you not list Beniets? (ben-yays, benyeas?) They are the most sinfully good sweet thing I ever ate... other thanmy own cheescake that is...
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:28 PM
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um, I think. Well, with beignets you need coffee. It's too late in the evenin' for coffee.
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:31 PM
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11. never too late for coffee |
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:24 PM
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but i get it in Mississippi
In Lousiana, it'd be po'boys
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:25 PM
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Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 08:34 PM by redqueen
And Chicken Fried Steak ain't Lousiana food, it's Texas food! :)
on edit: Blackened Red Snapper is a very close second.... mmmmm.... snapper....
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:32 PM
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13. Texas? We don't need no steenkin' Texas. |
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I'll have you know that Caddo Parish, Louisiana, is the capital of the Native American province of Texas.
"Texas" is a corruption of a Caddo Indian word meaning "Friendly" or "Allied" country. It was the territory of the Caddo-led confederation against the nomadic Comanche and Kiowa raiders. And the capital was about 5 miles from my childhood home, spang in Caddo Parish, La.
See, I'm a traditionalist. Never mind what them newfangled Spanish and Messican and Texas Revolutionary trouble-makers may have done with Texas -- I believe in the original Texas -- and northwest Louisiana is part of it. So there.
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:33 PM
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14. Well I'll tip my hat to Caddo Parish, then |
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And to you, too, for the lesson!
:hi:
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:26 PM
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7. A good bit of blackened chicken is unbelievably tasty (nt) |
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:27 PM
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if prepared by a good cajun/creole cook. My cousin married one. Her catfish etouffe was a revelation!
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:32 PM
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12. I can't live without shrimp poboys and boiled crawfish. |
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I go to New Orleans about 5-7 times a year, and the first meal I want is a shrimp poboy.
If crawfish are in season, I also need to get my fix of boiled crawfish.
Or, how about fresh fried oysters with a nice sauce and a margarita.
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Wed Aug-04-04 08:40 PM
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Yum City.
On the other hand, you could Etoufee' and old boot, and I would be on it like ugly on an ape.
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:02 PM
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16. I voted gumbo only because deep fried soft shell crabs |
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Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 09:03 PM by Rowdyboy
from Irene's, bar-b-que shrimp from Mr. B's and fried oysters at Cafe Maspero weren't listed.
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:26 PM
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17. this time of year it's too hot to be cookin' much |
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so it's shrimp or crawdad remoulade and a salad.
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:26 PM
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18. Cane's Chicken "special sauce," fried okra, red beans & rice, and beignets |
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:27 PM
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:27 PM
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20. Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and a fillet gumbo.... |
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Guess what I voted for? :9
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Thu Aug-05-04 08:30 AM
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24. That would be file gumbo. |
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File powder is, I believe, derived from Sassafras root -- a sweet root -- as is Sarsparilla, like the good cowboy often ordered.
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:31 PM
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Mom, if you ever read this, I love you - and you make wonderful gumbo! It's the food I think of when I get homesick. *sniff*
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Fri Aug-06-04 10:05 AM
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35. You can't get real Cajun food in a restaurant |
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Even in Louisiana, Cajun restaurants rarely have genuine Cajun cooking. If you want the real deal, you've got to sit at the table in a Cajun's home. Some of the relatively simple dishes are the best. Chicken and sausage gumbo is one of the most incredible foods on the planet. Smothered chicken, or a well-seasoned pork roast, are absolutely to die for... but if you order them in a restaurant, don't get your hopes up.
FYI: to the non-Louisiana DUers. blackened food is not Cajun. Yes, it was invented by a Cajun, but no one deliberately blackened food before Prudhomme came along. If a Mexican chef had thought of it, we'd be calling it Mexican food.
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:37 PM
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With andoille, chicken, and shrimp or crawfish (or both). I also love fried oyster or catfish po boys.
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Wed Aug-04-04 09:38 PM
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23. I voted dirty rice, but just the simple classic crawdad boil is hard to |
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beat.
Bread pudding also merits some consideration...
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Thu Aug-05-04 08:32 AM
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25. I hereby declare Crawfish Etouffee the winner. |
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As for several other dishes that did not get into the poll -=- DU only allows 10 options. I did my best ....
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Thu Aug-05-04 08:32 AM
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26. Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, oh me oh my-oh. |
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Me gotta go pole the pirogue down on the bayou.
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Thu Aug-05-04 10:38 AM
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27. what about crawfish? or boiled crabs |
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seafood gumbo, okay..now i'm hungry
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Thu Aug-05-04 03:06 PM
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30. This is not a fair poll. |
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You went and put one of the best LSU cheers in there. I had no choice but to vote for that one and diss all that great food.
GEAUX TIGERS!
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Fri Aug-06-04 09:11 AM
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1)What's the difference between file gumbo and okra gumbo. Both use okra. 2)Why you no have crawdad?
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