I knew that, but I did not know if all our Freepers did.
I had a friend some years ago who worked as a purchasing manager with an oil rig outfit in the Gulf. He was not a Cajun but had worked with many on the rigs over the years, and it was from him I learned the term coonass. I know there are many coonasses who with their offshore oil experience have worked all over the world.
Yup...poor coonasses going from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Sea to Alaska. I can just picture them "enlightening" the Eskimos and Scandahoovians to gumbo, Tabasco, and Tony Chachere's. Imagine...Alaskan King Crab etouffee.