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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 4:58 am to hungryone
You can actually break Cajuns down ever further. There's a distinct difference between the river parish Cajuns and the acadian Cajuns further west. It's mostly the same dishes but just prepared slightly different.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 5:25 am to Chatagnier
As a Eunice transplant to cenla, I see a huge difference in the food that comes out of marksville/avoyelles vs what I see down home. Prairie Cajuns are definitely a thing.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 6:43 am to Degas
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And I-10 separates the good food from the bad food, or so it's been said.
I guess Teet’s, Billy’s and Kartchner’s make shitty products.
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 7:10 am to ragincajun03
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I guess Teet’s, Billy’s and Kartchner’s make shitty products.
This board's obsession with their overly smoked sausage where the wood was at the wrong temp always confuses me.
If I wanted something that tasted like only mesquite smoke I'd buy sausage from Texas.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 7:17 am to Degas
quote:
And I-10 separates the good food from the bad food, or so it's been said.
That line is drawn at the base of Rapides Parish IMO.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 8:11 am to ragincajun03
Tried kartchners boudin this week. Wasn’t impressed. Cracklin were good
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 8:53 am to FAP SAM
quote:
quote:
The Vermillion river separates the Creole east from the Cajun west.
This is just flat wrong
Yeah that geography makes no sense. The Vermillion doesn’t separate anything culturally.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 9:14 am to Y.A. Tittle
Erath is pretty damn cajun, and Abbeville sure AF isn’t half creole.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 9:22 am to Y.A. Tittle
Would anything outside of the Greater New Orleans area really qualify as Creole?
I’ve often heard it described as its own separate thing from the rest of South Louisiana.
I’ve often heard it described as its own separate thing from the rest of South Louisiana.
Posted on 11/7/20 at 9:56 am to joeleblanc
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Tried kartchners boudin this week. Wasn’t impressed
I will fight you
Posted on 11/7/20 at 10:01 am to Degas
quote:
And I-10 separates the good food from the bad food, or so it's been said.
some of the deepest cajun towns are north of 10. i.e. mamou, ville platte, eunice.
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 10:51 am to timbo247
German cajun here.
Earliest memory I can remember falling in the bottom of a leaking crawfish boat and getting a diaper full of water
Earliest memory I can remember falling in the bottom of a leaking crawfish boat and getting a diaper full of water
Posted on 11/7/20 at 11:59 am to Decisions
quote:I think there are a couple of pockets outside of New Orleans that call themselves Creole rather than Cajun. I think one of these is around Natchitoches. And remember, Tony Chacherie's is called Creole Seasoning, and he was from Opelousas.
Would anything outside of the Greater New Orleans area really qualify as Creole?
ETA: "The Cane River Colony was a colony founded by Marie Theresa "CoinCoin," a former African slave and the children of her relationship with Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer, a Frenchman, on Isle Brevelle just south of Natchitoches in central Louisiana."
These folks probably identified as Creole under the second meaning of the term.
This post was edited on 11/7/20 at 12:24 pm
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