Who are Cajun, what is Cajun? - Page 3 - Historum

**Zeno** · March 11th, 2011, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlie Bravo

Une Petit peu, oui, mais pas bien. (And my spelling and grammer are atrocious)

Same here, it's even worse then my English go figure!

**Zeno** · March 11th, 2011, 07:23 AM

So is Cajun a coastal, or even a maritime culture?

**jegates** · March 11th, 2011, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by leakbrewergator

I'm cajun.!!

Yes, we immigrated from France via....gasp!...Canada.

Some of my favorite cajun food:

Gumbo (filet or okra)
Fried alligator tail
jumbalaya
shrimp etoufee
po boys (catfish or shrimp. Sometimes chicken)
duck
turtle soup
pig tail spaghetti

the list goes on and on....

My favorite cajun feast is easily the crawfish boil. You basically put a bunch of picnic tables together and spread some newspaper out. Then they come by with the crawfish pot and spread it all over the table. The crawfish pot usually contains red potatoes and corn to go along with the crawfish. Then they come by with a big 'ol vat of industrial strength hot sauce and drizzle it over everything. Everybody just digs in and throws the discarded shells into a predetermined bucket.

My neighbor (from Louisana) does the crawfish boil once a year. He does it exactly as you described it...picnic tables pushed together, newspapers, mounds of crawfish, etc. His family comes up to do this with him. They all stand around the tables and feast. Way cool!

**Charlie Bravo** · March 11th, 2011, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeno

So is Cajun a coastal, or even a maritime culture?

Yes and no. A lot of them are shrimpers and oystermen. A lot of the Cajuns who settled in the interior of South Louisiana are swamp people. Like those in St. Martinville, for instance. Thus the gators and turtles and such in the diet. It's fair to say most Cajuns know their way around a boat, tho it's as likely to be an airboat or a flat bottomed freshwater boat as a shrimp-boat.

**leakbrewergator** · March 11th, 2011, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by jegates

My neighbor (from Louisana) does the crawfish boil once a year. He does it exactly as you described it...picnic tables pushed together, newspapers, mounds of crawfish, etc. His family comes up to do this with him. They all stand around the tables and feast. Way cool!

Yeah man, it's good stuff. My dad still does it twice a year even though we don't live in New Orleans anymore. We usually have a relative ship some crawfish to us. It was cool seeing my wife experience it for the first time a few years ago. She doesn't like seafood but she still had a blast.

**Zeno** · March 11th, 2011, 07:29 AM

I think i wanna be a Cajun. The climate is sunny, right, but you do have the thunderstorms and tornados, no?

**Clemmie** · March 11th, 2011, 07:30 AM

And hurricanes.

**leakbrewergator** · March 11th, 2011, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlie Bravo

Yes and no. A lot of them are shrimpers and oystermen. A lot of the Cajuns who settled in the interior of South Louisiana are swamp people. Like those in St. Martinville, for instance. Thus the gators and turtles and such in the diet. It's fair to say most Cajuns know their way around a boat, tho it's as likely to be an airboat or a flat bottomed freshwater boat as a shrimp-boat.

Hey CB, you ever had nutria?

**leakbrewergator** · March 11th, 2011, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeno

I think i wanna be a Cajun. The climate is sunny, right, but you do have the thunderstorms and tornados, no?

I've never experienced a tornado. Just hurricanes.

**Charlie Bravo** · March 11th, 2011, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeno

I think i wanna be a Cajun. The climate is sunny, right, but you do have the thundersorms and tornados, no?

Sure do. It can rain like the Devil here in South Louisiana. It also gets cold in the winter, and it's a wet cold. But the spring and falls here are awesome. If you can survive the summer heat with its attendant humidity, you'll be fine. One thing we do know how to do, and that's keep the beer ice cold.