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Creole vs Cajun
Posted on 11/7/20 at 1:13 am
Posted on 11/7/20 at 1:13 am
Little history for you.
The Vermillion river separates the Creole east from the Cajun west.
Creole is a melting pot of about 7-12 cultures from around the world but most prominently, African, Caribbean, and French.
Cajun is mostly two cultures, French and German.
Creole food is comprised of garden vegetables like tomatoes and okra, with an abundance of seafood like shrimp and oysters.
Cajun food is mostly dark roux with rice (rice fields are everywhere in Cajun country) poultry, pork, and waterfowl.
A great example is gumbo:
Creole gumbo can be gumbo z’herbs
Cajun gumbo is chicken and andouille. No tomatoes or okra. Dark roux
Traditional Creole dishes: shrimp creole, jambalaya (sometimes red), ettouffeé, seafood gumbo.
Traditional Cajun dishes: boudin, Cracklin, C&S gumbo, crawfish stew.
The Vermillion river separates the Creole east from the Cajun west.
Creole is a melting pot of about 7-12 cultures from around the world but most prominently, African, Caribbean, and French.
Cajun is mostly two cultures, French and German.
Creole food is comprised of garden vegetables like tomatoes and okra, with an abundance of seafood like shrimp and oysters.
Cajun food is mostly dark roux with rice (rice fields are everywhere in Cajun country) poultry, pork, and waterfowl.
A great example is gumbo:
Creole gumbo can be gumbo z’herbs
Cajun gumbo is chicken and andouille. No tomatoes or okra. Dark roux
Traditional Creole dishes: shrimp creole, jambalaya (sometimes red), ettouffeé, seafood gumbo.
Traditional Cajun dishes: boudin, Cracklin, C&S gumbo, crawfish stew.
This post was edited on 11/7/20 at 1:21 am
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Posted on 11/7/20 at 2:15 am to The Levee
No. You’re drawing lines in all the wrong places, and trying to create distinct categories where none truly exist. Plus ignoring the Spanish influence (LA was a Spanish colony far longer than it was French). And conflating the bayou Cajuns of SE LA (more of whom are truly descended from Acadian refugees) with the creole ignores the lived realities of contemporary folks who still speak French and eat ridiculous amounts of seafood.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 3:09 am to The Levee
quote:And I-10 separates the good food from the bad food, or so it's been said.
The Vermillion river separates the Creole east from the Cajun west.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 6:58 am to The Levee
quote:
The Vermillion river separates the Creole east from the Cajun west.
This is just flat wrong
Posted on 11/7/20 at 8:36 am to The Levee
I’ve seen this Drunk History show, meh.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 8:52 am to The Levee
A little history for you, Cajuns are descendants from the Acadians who were exiled from the Acadia region of Canada, and settled in Louisiana.
I guess I’ll have to let the folks in Abbeville and Erath know that they aren’t cajun
I guess I’ll have to let the folks in Abbeville and Erath know that they aren’t cajun
This post was edited on 11/7/20 at 9:00 am
Posted on 11/7/20 at 10:08 am to The Levee
Tell some baw from breaux bridge he isn’t Cajun and get back to us. Lol
This post was edited on 11/7/20 at 10:09 am
Posted on 11/7/20 at 2:02 pm to The Levee
If anything, the Teche creates the eastern Cajun boundary.
But yes, Prairie Cajuns > all others
But yes, Prairie Cajuns > all others
Posted on 11/8/20 at 2:44 pm to The Levee
Maybe you mean the Atchafalaya? Which still isn’t the answer, but at least there are some foodways that might be east or west of the Atchafalaya.
Posted on 11/8/20 at 10:11 pm to The Levee
quote:
The Vermillion river separates the Creole east from the Cajun west.
The German coastline says hello you stupid frick.
Posted on 11/9/20 at 2:34 pm to The Levee
red jambalaya=creole
brown jambalaya=cajun
brown jambalaya=cajun
Posted on 11/10/20 at 9:50 pm to The Levee
I used to eat Cajun down in fourchon a lot and that was the worst food ever.
Plain Spaghetti with fried shrimp or broiled oysters. Maybe some butter.
Gumbo that was like brown water.
Just bad
Plain Spaghetti with fried shrimp or broiled oysters. Maybe some butter.
Gumbo that was like brown water.
Just bad
This post was edited on 11/11/20 at 6:47 am
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