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Anyone realize the similarities between S. Carolina and Louisiana cooking?
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:04 am
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:04 am
Saw this on Bizarre Foods last night, in S. Carolina they have Frogmore Stew (which is just a shrimp boil) and Chicken Bog (which is chicken and sausage jambalaya). Imitation is the greatest form of flattery I guess.
Frogmore Stew
Chicken Bog
Frogmore Stew
Chicken Bog
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:15 am to mpar98
I'm not sure boiling shrimp was invented in Louisiana, it's possible someone somewhere else thought about dropping some shrimp into boiling water without hearing about it from someone in Louisiana first
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:16 am to mpar98
pretty sure those dishes and others that are similar to some of ours have been a part of their culture for a long time
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:17 am to mpar98
Frogmore stew is the same as a Low Country boil, and is unique to the Low Country. A large part of which is in South Carolina.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:19 am to gmrkr5
The Low Country isn't too worried about imitating LA. With the exception of maybe Savannah. But it's not like they are Mobile or anything. Mobile wants to be NOLA so bad they barf on themselves.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:19 am to mpar98
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South Carolina has hijacked Louisiana cooking
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:23 am to mpar98
Frogmore Stew looks to be more of a New England Crab boil. They are only using Old Bay and those tiny arse "spicy sausage links". A seafood boil is a seafood boil everywhere. Just seasoned different.
Chicken Bog (dumbass name) has similar ingredients to jambalaya I guess. But literally their only seasoning is "italian seasoning". No browning, no gratin/gradoux, nothing.
Chicken Bog (dumbass name) has similar ingredients to jambalaya I guess. But literally their only seasoning is "italian seasoning". No browning, no gratin/gradoux, nothing.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:23 am to mpar98
South Carolina hasn't "hijacked" Louisiana cuisine. Like the Port of New Orleans and Mobile Bay, the Charleston Harbor was a major slave port. Slaves from West Africa were brought in and developed South Carolina's Gullah cuisine.
While bearing some similarities, this cuisine is very popular and is more indigenous to the Lowcountry areas of South Carolina and Georgia than Louisiana (Frogmore Stew, Chicken Bog, Pone bread, She-crab soup, Charleston red rice)
While bearing some similarities, this cuisine is very popular and is more indigenous to the Lowcountry areas of South Carolina and Georgia than Louisiana (Frogmore Stew, Chicken Bog, Pone bread, She-crab soup, Charleston red rice)
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:29 am to mpar98
Do a little research on Gullah cuisine.
Like 12pence said, it's based on West African culture brought over by the slave trade.
Like 12pence said, it's based on West African culture brought over by the slave trade.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:31 am to TypoKnig
ok to tame it down and make it look more rational I changed the title...my inner Cajun was triggered. 
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:33 am to mpar98
Were there tomatoes in the Bog ?
Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:39 am to 12Pence
Lots of similarities between South Carolina and Louisiana that would cause a convergence of some dishes. Rice. Slaves. Estuarine ecosystems, so similar seafood. Similar climate.
I think S Carolina had rice as an economic crop before Louisiana - they certainly seem to be connoisseurs of it more than here.
I think S Carolina had rice as an economic crop before Louisiana - they certainly seem to be connoisseurs of it more than here.
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 8:57 am to Stadium Rat
I wonder what red beans and rice is called elsewhere in the US.
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:08 am to mpar98
If you want to really have your mind blown, it is more than likely Louisiana food resembles South Carolina cooking, as the concept of S. Carolina (as well as trade, slavery, settlers, etc...) is a good bit older than the idea of Louisiana.
Check your privilege.
Check your privilege.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:19 am to BlackenedOut
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a good bit older than the idea of Louisiana.
Meh I'd disagree.
The first official settlements of these specific areas were only about 20-30 years apart. Yeah the Spanish and French had been there prior in Carolina but they had to leave and never actually developed any successful settlements. Slaves were brought into both areas pretty much immediately after the official first settlements.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:19 am to Stadium Rat
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I think S Carolina had rice as an economic crop before Louisiana - they certainly seem to be connoisseurs of it more than here.
SC was growing rice in the 1600's. The massive amounts of hardwoods that were cleared and canals that were dug all by hand is one of the greatest engineering feats in America. Of course it was all done by slave labor. Gigantic rice plantations pumped rice for a couple hundred years till hurricanes ravaged the area because there were no trees to protect the inland and Abe Lincoln dispersed their labor pool. Now they don't grow shite for rice.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:24 am to BlackenedOut
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If you want to really have your mind blown, it is more than likely Louisiana food resembles South Carolina cooking, as the concept of S. Carolina (as well as trade, slavery, settlers, etc...) is a good bit older than the idea of Louisiana.
Check your privilege.
And as other posters have noted, these similar dishes have deeply rooted ancestors in West Africa. The construct of stewlike stuff over rice is a West African culinary construct, not a European or Native American one. The complex rice culture of W Africa was an inadvertent import along with the enslaved people.
Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:27 am to LSUballs
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Now they don't grow shite for rice.
that carolina gold tho
Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:30 am to Pettifogger
Most Carolina Gold is grown in Louisiana now 
I do think they are growing a little over there though.
I do think they are growing a little over there though.
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Posted on 1/25/17 at 9:52 am to LSUballs
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But it's not like they are Mobile or anything. Mobile wants to be NOLA so bad they barf on themselves
What? What did they copy from NOLA? Mobile is the older city and as other posters already stated these cuisines came over with the slaves.
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