Posted on 12/10/2019 7:46:10 AM PST by C19fan
Angelle Terrell is a Cajun who grew up in Lafayette (the capital of Cajun Louisiana), but who moved to Baton Rouge when she got married. For those outside of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, where I live, has a French name, and it’s in the southern part of the state (where the Cajuns are), but it is not a Cajun city. Sometimes it feels like Shreveport South.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing — it’s the capital of a state, the northern half of which is Anglo Protestant — but it does give you an idea of why a Cajun woman from a city only one hour to the west of Baton Rouge can feel like a cultural alien here. It’s a noticeably different culture. When I was a kid growing up in West Feliciana Parish, I knew that if we got on the ferry and crossed the Mississippi to Pointe Coupee Parish, we were in another country. That’s where Cajun Louisiana starts. People there spoke English with Cajun accents. They weren’t hostile or anything, but we knew that they were different. And I’m sure they said the same thing about us, because it was true. We were English and they were French.
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As a Bama fan I have to say I really like Coach O. That voice!
I married a Cajun gal. She has relatives that can’t speak a word of English. I could live eating only the gumbo that she cooks.
I have a good friend who I have known since around 1965.
He has an English name but he and his brothers and sisters all have black hair and black eyes. They are all handsome or pretty.
Their Father has or had brown hair and blue eyes but all the kids look like their Mother who was a beautiful girl, almost certainly Cajun as they live or lived in North Central Louisiana.
Perpetually hoarse. 8>)
From my limited time in Louisiana: man those folks can cook and party!!!!!
You do not want to make those folks get mad at you. Just ask the NFL refs.
My wife is filipina,we were watching an interview of coach O after one of the games.She asked me,,,”Is he speaking english?”I told her I wasn’t sure,,,,,
I along with most other USC fans were furious when the administration dumped Coach O in 2013 and hired “Seven-Win Steve” Sarkisian. Cutty Sark lasted less than two years.
He reminds me of that guy from “the Waterboy”... You know the one.
Coach O seems to enjoy trolling USC with John Robinson on the staff and Marcus Allen on the sideline for LSU games.
USC certainly is kicking themselves:
https://reignoftroy.com/2019/12/09/usc-didnt-hire-ed-orgeron-sounded-like/
If it walks,crawls or flies,it goes in the pot. :)
My grandfather was Cajun, from Abbeville LA. His family has been here since the mid 1700's but my great grandmother only spoke broken and highly accented English. Her first language was French.
Louisiana is a unique state, culturally. Unlike every other state in the union, it's culture and laws are French, not English.
If you starve to death in Louisiana it’s your own fault. They will eat anything they can can stick in their mouth.
This is the reason we keep going back to New Orleans; it is a unique vibe. "The Big Easy" has to be the most accurate nickname of any city.
I went to a school outside Louisiana for a short time. My fellow students believed I went to school in a canoe and had alligators in my front yard.
Had a good friend,one of twelve from a Cajun family. His philosophy on life was: “Eat all you can every chance you get because you never know when your next chance will be.”
Ms. Terrell doesn’t know much about Cajun/Creole if she thinks Pointe Coupee Parish is “Cajun”. Sorry, Angelle, but it’s CREOLE. There are very few actual Cajuns there, although many of French descent.
(I was born and raised there, went to LSU for BS and PhD, married a gal half Cajun and half German that I met at LSU, and lived and worked in Baton Rouge until I retired.)
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