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Louisiana Tribute
YOU MIGHT BE FROM LOUISIANA IF...
1. You’ve ever worn shorts at Christmas time.
2. You pronounce Lafayette as “Laffy-ette” not “La-fy-ette.”
3. You learned to drive a boat before you could drive a car.
4. You know the meaning of a “Delcambre Reeboks” (that would be a pair of all white fishing boots).
5. You offer somebody a “coke” and then ask them what kind: Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, 7Up?
6. You can name all your 3rd cousins.
7. You plan your wedding around hunting season & LSU football.
8. You greet people with “Ha’s ya momma’an’dem?” and hear back “Dey fine”
9. Every so often you have waterfront property.
10. When giving directions you use words like “uptown, downtown, backatown, riverside, lakeside, northshore, westbank, down the bayou or across the river”.
11. When you refer to a geographical location “way up north”, you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock, or Memphis, “where it gets real cold”!
12. Your burial plot is six feet over rather than six feet under.
13. You’ve ever had Community Coffee.
14. You can pronounce Tchoupitoulas but can’t spell it. (also Thibodaux, Opelousas, Pontchartrain, Ouachita, Atchafalaya.
15. You don’t worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house.
16. You judge a Po-boy by the number of napkins used. (Amen) you got dat rite.
17. The waitress at your local sandwich shop tells you a fried oyster Po-boy dressed is healthier than a Caesar salad.
18. You know the definition of “dressed”.
19. You can eat Popeye’s, Haydel’s and Zapp’s for lunch and wash it down with Barq’s and several Abitas, without losing it all on your stoop.
20. The smell of a crawfish boil turns you on more than Chanel No. 5.
21. You wrench your hands in the sink with an onion bar to get the crawfish smell off.
22. Your not afraid when someone wants to “ax you something”.
23. You go by “ya-mom-en-dems” on Good Friday for family supper.
24. You don’t learn until high school that Mardi gras is not a national holiday.
25. You don’t realize until high school what a county is.
26. You believe that purple green and gold look good together (and you will even eat things those colors).
27. You go to buy a new winter coat, or what most people refer to as windbreakers.
28. Your last name isn’t pronoudced the way it’s spelled.
29. You know what a nutria rat is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team. (Geaux Zephryrs)
30. You have a ditch on at least one side of your property.
31. You have spent a summer afternoon on the Lake Pontchartrain seawall catching blue crabs.
32. You describe a color as “K&B purple”.
33. You like your rice and politics dirty.
34. When given the choice for governor between a KKK leader and Edwin Edwards, it’s a difficult decision.
35. You pronounce the largest city in the state as “N’awlins”.
36. You know those big roaches can fly, but you’re able to sleep at night anyway.
37. You prefer skiing on the bayou.
38. You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.
39. You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana.
40. You can list all the ingredients of a Gumbo or a Jambalaya.
41. You go to the “boat” but you don’t plan on spending any time over water.
42. When you’re in Baton Rouge you know the difference between the old bridge and the new bridge.
43. You’ve ever had to wait for the bridge to come down so you can get home.
44. You pull for the Saints (who else would)?
45. You’ve ever been to a wedding and someone either danced in a #3 washtub or with a broom and this was considered normal.
46. You make your groceries or save your dishes or have an ice box.
47. You can’t think of anybody that can cook better than your momma.
48. You know when it’s appropriate to use “Tony Chachere’s”.
49. You know an old person that can treat you for warts.
50. The four seasons in your area are: crawfish, shrimp, crab, and oyster.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE 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-Fontenot-Thibodeaux.
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 our car.
15. You pass up a trip abroad to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge.
16. Your children's favorite bedtime story begin with "First you make a roux..."
17. Your schoolteacher 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.
24. You think of gravy as a beverage.
25. You learned to play bourre' before you learned your ABC's.
26. Your high school band's rendition of the national anthem begins with, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo..."
27. You stand up when they play "Jolie Blonde." (McNeese Football games!)
28. Any of your dessert recipes call for Tabasco sauce.
29. You consider Breaux Bridge the capital of the state, and Lafayette capital of the nation.
30. You think the Mason-Dixon line is at Bunkie.
31. You believe in the Holy Trinity. (Garlic, onion and bell pepper)
LOUISIANA FAST FACTS & TRIVIA
1. The world famous "Mardi Gras" is celebrated in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is an ancient custom that originated in southern Europe. It celebrates food and fun just before the 40 days of Lent: a Catholic time of prayer and sacrifice.
2. The Battle of New Orleans, which made Andrew Jackson a national hero, was fought two weeks after the War of 1812 had ended and more than a month before the news of the war's end had reached Louisiana.
3. Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.
4. Baton Rouge hosted the 1983 Special Olympics International Summer Games at LSU.
5. Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
6. Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties. Its political subdivisions are called parishes.
7. Louisiana is the only state with a large population of Cajuns, descendants of the Acadians who were driven out of Canada in the 1700s because they wouldn't pledge allegiance to the King of England.
8. The Superdome in New Orleans is the worlds largest steel-constructed room unobstructed by posts. Height: 273 feet (82.3 meters), Diameter of Dome: 680 feet (210 meters), Area of Roof: 9.7 acres, Interior Space: 125,000,000 cubic feet, Total floor footage: 269,000 sq. ft. (82,342 sq. meters), Electrical Wiring: 400 miles (640 kilometers)
9. Metairie is home to the longest bridge over water in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain causeway. The causeway connects Metairie with St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore. The causeway is 24 miles long.
10. Louisiana is the only state that still refers to the Napoleonic Code in its state law.
11. Since 1835 the New Orleans & Carrolliton Line is the oldest street railway line still in operation.
12. Saint Martin Parish is home to the world's largest freshwater river basin, the Atchafalaya Basin; the basin provides nearly every type of outdoor recreational activity imaginable.
13. Breaux Bridge is known as the "Crawfish Capital of the World".
14. The first American army to have African American officers was the confederate Louisiana Native Guards. The Corps d'Afrique at Port Hudson was sworn into service on September 27, 1862.
15. In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.
16. The Saint Charles streetcar line in New Orleans and the San Francisco, California cable cars are the nation's only mobile national monuments
17. Jennings is called the "Garden Spot of Louisiana" for it's rich and productive farmland. Jennings sobriquet {nickname} became a "Northern Town on Southern Soil".
18. Baton Rouge's flag is a field of crimson representing the great Indian nations that once inhabited the area.
19. Money Magazine has rated Terrebonne Parish, in the heart of Cajun Country the best place to live in Louisiana for 3 years in a row.
20. In 1718 The French found New Orleans and marked "Cannes Brulee" on maps upriver in the area known today as the City of Kenner. French for "Burnt Canes", Cannes Brulee was a name given by explorers who observed natives burning cane to drive out wild game.
21. Between April 17,1862 and May 18, 1864 20 major Civil War battles and engagements were fought on Louisiana soil.
22. In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory. 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.
23. Bayou: \BUY-you\ n. a French name for slow-moving "river"
24. Louisiana's first territorial governor, William C.C. Claiborne had great admiration for the awkward bird that inhabited the Gulf Coast region. The pelican, rather than let its young starve, would tear at its own flesh to feed them. The Governor's great respect for the Pelican led him to first use the Pelican symbol on official documents.
25. The Catahoula Leopard Dog, often called the Catahoula Hound, is the official state dog.
26. The City of Sulphur is the 13th largest city in Louisiana and is named for the chemical and mining industry that helped to establish Calcasieu Parish in the late 1800's.
27. The Town of Walker became a municipality under the State's Lawrason Act (136 of 1898) on July 9, 1909 as a village.
28. Saint Joseph's Cemetery, the only known United States cemetery facing north-south is in Rayne.
29. Incorporated in 1813 under the Lawrason Act, Saint Francisville is the second oldest town in Louisiana.
30. The Union Cottonseed Oil Mill of West Monroe was in the planning stages as early as 1883. By 1887, it provided the area with many jobs for the laborers of the area. The Union Oil Mill is the oldest industry in Ouachita Parish.
31. French speaking Acadians in the mid-1700s settled the Lafayette Parish region of south Louisiana. The Acadians were joined by another group of settlers called Creoles, descendants of African, West Indian, and European pioneers. At the time of the migration, Louisiana was under Spanish rule and authorities welcomed the new settlers.
32. The city of Kaplan is referred to as "The Most Cajun place on earth".
33. The town of Jean Lafitte was once a hideaway for pirates.
34. Winnsboro, the "Stars and Stripes Capital of Louisiana", is one of the most patriotic cities in America. On Memorial Day, July 4th, Veteran's Day, Labor Day, and other special occasions, approximately 350 American flags fly proudly along highway 15.
35. The name "Bogalusa" is derived from the Indian named creek "Bogue Lusa", which flows through the city.
36. Frances Parkinson Keyes, one of America's best selling authors, lived in Crowley for more than ten years.
37. The golden spike, commemorating the completion of the east-west Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad, was driven at Bossier City on July 12, 1884, by Julia "Pansy" Rule. It was the first such spike driven by a woman.
38. Jim Bowie, the legendary adventurer and hero of the Battle of the Alamo, lived in Opelousas after moving there from Kentucky. Opelousas is the third oldest city in Louisiana.
39. The City of Ponchatoula is the oldest incorporated city in Tangipahoa Parish. Ponchatoula derives its name from the Choctaw Indian language meaning "hair to hang" because of the abundance of Spanish moss on the trees surrounding the area.
40. Le Musee de la Ville de Kaplan {The Kaplan Museum} is located in the center of downtown Kaplan. Le Musee at appropriate times has exhibits centered on the seasonal festivals. Mardi Gras, Easter, July 4, Bastille Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
41. Rayne is known as the "The Frog Capital of the World".
42. Notations on the original plats of survey for the area that is now Ville Platte stated that surveyors had to use pirogues and flat boats to properly do their work.
43. Because Covington is in a region referred to as the Ozone Belt, it has long been known for its clean air and water.
44. Gueydan is known as the "Duck Capital of America" in recognition of its abundance of waterfowl.
45. Mamou bills itself as "The Cajun Music Capital of the World." Mamou musicians, in particular the musicians who have perform at Fred's Lounge have been a major force in expanding the audience for Cajun music far beyond Southwest Louisiana.
46. The Harvey Canal Locks near Westwego connect the Mississippi River to the Harvey Canal. Back in the 1800s the locks served as ferries to transport railroad cars from one side of the canal to the other. Workers would then reunite the railroad cars on land. This service may have sparked the name of the town. According to one local folk tale, trainmen would shout "West We Go" as the railroad cars were reconnected and pulled out of the station.
47. Church Point boasts the designation "The Buggy Capital of the World". A festival celebrates this designation annually on the first weekend in June.
48. The Creole House in French Settlement was built of cypress wood. It is typical of the dwellings built in the late 1800's because cypress was so plentiful in the surrounding swamps.
49. Fort Polk was established in 1941 and named in honor of the Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Louisiana. On March 12, 1993, Fort Polk officially became the home of the Joint Readiness Training Center.
50. Pineville is home to a one of a kind museum called the Old Town Hall Museum. It is the only museum in the entire state of Louisiana dedicated to municipal government.
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