| You Know You're A Cajun If... | ||||||||
| Watching "Wild Kingdom" inspieres you to write a cookbook You think the head of the U.N. is Boudreaux-Boudreaux Guillory You think a lobster is a crawfish on steroids. You think boudin, hogshead cheese, and Bud is a bland diet. You think Ground Hog Day and Boucherie Day are the same holidy. You take a bite of 5 alarm Texas chili and reach for the Tabasco. Fred's Lounge in Mamou means more to you than the Grand Ole Opry. You have an "envie" for something instead of a craving. You use a No. 3 waashtub to cover your lawn mower or outboard in your yard. You use two or more pirogues to cover your newly planted tomatoes to protect them from a late frost. You use a gill net to play tennis, badminton, or volleyball. The horsepower of your outboard motor is greater than the motor in yoru car. You pass up a trip abroid to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge. Your favorite TV talk show is Okra Winfrey. You childrent's favorite bedtime story begins "First make a roux..." You school teachs the four basic food groups as boiled seafood, broiled seafood, fried seafood and beer. You asked to name the four seasons and reply "Onions, celery, bell pepper and garlic." You're asked to name the Fab Four and answer "Paul Prudhomme, John Folse, Justin Wilson and Vernon Roger." Your discriptions of a gourmet dinner includes the words "deep fat fried". You let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled. You describe a yard of boudin and cracklings as "breakfast." Your mama announces each morning, "Well, I've got the rics cooking, what will we have for dinner?" None of your potential vacation distinations are north of the old Mississippi River bridge. You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather". You get a disapproving look for your wife and describe it as "She passed me a pair of eyes." You think of gravy as a beverage. You greet your long lost friend at the Lafayetter International Airport with "AAAAIIIIIEEEEE!" You sit doesn to eat boiled crawfish and your host says "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what he means. You learned bourre the hard way, holding yourself upright in your crib. You don't know the real names of your friends, only their nicknames. You gave up Tabasco for Lent. You know the difference between Zatarains, Zeringue and Zydeco. Your dog thinks the bed of your pickup is his kennel. You can look at a rice field and tell how much gravy it will take to cover the rice. You cinsider the four seasons almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas. You high school bands rendition of the national anthem begins "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo..." You consider Breaux Bridge the capital of the state, and Lafayetter the capital of the nation. |
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