New Orleans Food
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Pete
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Boy and I went in there to get a late evening bananas foster fix and they said "No banana for you!" I guess they have a rule you have to eat dinner to rate bananas foster.
Who knew.
Yeah? What spot is this?
I used to LOVE sitting around listening to my grandfather and his family speak Cajun French. We called it bayou speak.Made my head spin and was right up there with my grandma's cooking as being the two things I enjoyed most about visiting the little town of Branch, LA.
North of I-10, that's a different state right? Reminds me of a story. Pretty well known that after WW2 there were huge transitions that required English be primarily spoken in the schools and state buildings. Edwin Edwards noticed that there weren't many Cajun French speaking lawyers in Crowley who could defend cases when situations arose. That's what got him into politics, and eventually into Baton Rouge.
I sometimes find myself having difficulty using Parisian French words in Cajun French conversations when no modern day equivalent is needed. As in - Parisians call a computer l'ordi short for l'ordinateur but Cajun French says le computer. And forget trying to explain how new gadgets work
I don't teach my children Cajun French, the language will die within my generation and they have no use for it in Maryland. I do teach them French.
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North of I-10, that's a different state right? Reminds me of a story. Pretty well known that after WW2 there were huge transitions that required English be primarily spoken in the schools and state buildings. Edwin Edwards noticed that there weren't many Cajun French speaking lawyers in Crowley who could defend cases when situations arose. That's what got him into politics, and eventually into Baton Rouge.
I sometimes find myself having difficulty using Parisian French words in Cajun French conversations when no modern day equivalent is needed. As in - Parisians call a computer l'ordi short for l'ordinateur but Cajun French says le computer. And forget trying to explain how new gadgets work
This is totally none of my business but it's the "Internet" so I'm going to throw it out there anyway...
Please consider changing your mind about teaching your children Cajun French. Even though they have no use for it in Maryland, it is a part of their heritage and as such should be kept alive. If everyone who speaks Cajun French shares your current opinion the language will die out. Our country will lose a wonderful piece of its cultural history -- one of the things that makes the New Orleans area and culture such a unique thing. A similar thing happened in Ireland many years ago -- people stopped speaking Gaelic, almost resulting in the loss of that language altogether. Luckily, some people in Ireland realized that was about to happen and moved to reverse the trend.
Please...
They wouldn't let us walk in and look at the buffet before we decided to have brunch there. So we told them to GGS and went somewhere else.