Down da bayou or up da bayou

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This thread is very down da bayou.

Bayou lafourche runs north/south. Up the bayou or down the bayou is ever changing depending on where you are. If you are in golden meadow, then galliano is up the bayou. If you are in larose, then galliano is down the bayou….. that being said, everything below the Intracoadtal canal is referred to as “DTB”… down the bayou, because in reference to the full Bayou lafourche, it’s on the southern end, hopefully that’s confusing enough.

I’m sure there are a hundred other versions of this in different areas, but this is the real version.

People used to talk that way about the Mississippi River.

Down the river or up the river.



You could talk that way about the creek. But nobody wants to be up the creek.

There are only four directions on the bayou.
Up the bayou
Down the bayou
This side the bayou
Other side the bayou

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Why do people in southeast use these terms?

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Cause Troy, Junior, Willie, and RJ and Jay Paul say it.

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as was the Piggly Wiggly

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When going down Chauvin and looking for a particular place I wasn’t sure of I’d always ask, before the Pig or after the Pig. It’s a landmark!
The Piggly Wiggly still there, or did Rouses buy that too?
It’s been awhile since I’ve been down that way.

I was talking to a girl on Tinder from Houma years ago. I said "oh youre from down da bayou".

She got offended and said that it normally meant that you were poor or trashy

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So happy to be living up da bayou.

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Well I am happy living down da bayou.

So I guess that makes me trashy.

Down da Bayou Road all day every day 70030