It’s not often that I pity tourists, but when it comes to food they eat some serious slop passed off as ‘Creole’. I’ve seen garbage gumbo- with offal, chicken feet and other inedibles floating in okra slime. I’ve seen black, sticky goop with a single crab claw and a couple of pieces of questionable sausage and shrimp in the muck. And people pay serious $$ for the gunk. Kale isn’t as weird as it sounds- there is a gumbo z’herbs- that is all greens- and good! But quinoa and tofu and yogurt? Sick!! The crap that the health obsessed will swallow is laughable. People like that should just gnaw on sawdust and bamboo. Disney going the PC route in anything is no surprise.
Gumbo z’herbe-—I do make this sometimes. You speak of the weird Cajun stuff. I hate “blackened” anything.