Yeah, and you are also confused about who to root for also. The difference between A and B are involved with your OWN tastes, and long before the tourists learned about bieghnets people from Louisiana were sitting by the river to eat them, and there was no tv or even radio to advertise the place, and NOLA was not a tourist city when CDM first opened. Kind of makes me think that they did a pretty good job of selling a bit of French cuisine in a Francophile city.

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Posted by Gris Gris

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Posted on 9/21/11 at 10:23 pm to CITWTT

I love them. Tourists eat boiled and fried seafood, poboys, oysters rock, trout amandine etc... too, and so do I.

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Posted by TulaneLSU

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Posted on 9/21/11 at 10:38 pm to CITWTT

When CDM and Morning Call opened on Decatur, the last thing people did was sit by the river and eat their beignets. The river was separated from the people by industrial warehouses and many rail lines that were constantly in use. Saying that people ate their beignets on the river in the early 20th century is like saying people grab a beer at Tip's and perambulate down to the riverside today. A romantic vision, but it does not fit the historical geography. And yes, NOLA was a tourist city back then.

How is a beignet any more French than a donut? Both are fried dough, but at least donuts are sometimes filled with a fruit filling, as beignets are in France.

This post was edited on 9/21/11 at 10:40 pm

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