re: Clash of the Cooks jambalaya cookoff on campus

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This is what I object to. You dismiss any other jambalaya that doesn't conform to what your local population came up making.

People on the bayou have been cooking jambalaya just as long as the folks around Gonzales, but just chicken would be unthinkable to them. Their's almost always has some seafood.

Jambalaya's been around just as long in New Orleans, too, but tomatoes are traditional in jambalaya there.

I assume people in Ville Platte have been making Jambalaya for a long time, too, and I'll bet their's always has sausage or some other smoked meat.

The Gonzales way isn't the only way to make jambalaya and you can't own the name. Jambalaya is a Louisiana dish and different areas of the state have their variations.

Now I will object to some yankees making up shite like a stew served over rice or having kale and okra in it. Hell even some Louisianians put mushrooms in it.

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