re: 70% of supermarket ground beef contains "pink slime"

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I've lived in a lot of different places and for the most part food just isn't that big of a part of culture in the United States unless you're talking about major metro areas where you have more experienced diners.

Any small town in Louisiana is going to have a richer food culture than small towns in most other areas of the country.

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I have too powerman, and I'm at least twice your age, so I've had more years invested in observation. I don't mean that as a knock, just that I'm not speaking as if I haven't lived in three other states and other places in Louisiana to make an intelligent judgement call on things. I have family scattered from one side of this country to the other and that tired old thing you hear when people from Louisiana say "they just don't know how to cook outside of Louisiana" is just not even close to being so, and if you've traveled, then you know that's not the case.


Baton Rouge is the #7 chain addicted fast food city per capita in America with BK being the most popular chain in this city for good reason. That's not a people who overall cherish high quality food Powerman. It's just not the case. Are there people here who do? Well sure. Are there more people here that do than other places in say Kansas, Nebraska, and other parts in this country where the food is absolutely abysmal? Certainly, but areas of NOLA like Uptown, Mid City, Downtown, the FQ, etc and BR are so polar opposite when it comes to the emphasis placed upon next level bad arse food it's pretty comical to even compare. Same can be said for MANy other cities in this country that place a much higher importance on food than BR does by miles.

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Any small town in Louisiana is going to have a richer food culture than small towns in most other areas of the country.

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Not completely true. There are some pretty serious small town food places all over the country, but I'd probably agree to an extent.

Brady's in Hammond would wipe the floor with Dempseys and Brew Bachers, and I'd put Jacmel Inn up against pretty much any place in BR.

Same can be said for most of the Northshore where really good food is becomming more the norm than the exception.