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I cook either sausage and chicken or shrimp and crab

Did they put tomatoes in it?


My family never mixed seafood and land animals unless it was a shrimp and salt meat jambalaya.

Look at what the definition of gumbo is and why it was made.


Gumbo is all the meats.

I put Andouille and fresh pork sausage in chicken gumbo, Just shrimp and crab in seafood gumbo.

Never heard of any rules about what you can include in gumbo (except the dreaded tomatoes).

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Look at what the definition of gumbo is and why it was made.


Gumbo is all the meats.

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Yeah, their really aren't any rules to gumbo except make a roux, use the trinity, and no tomatoes.

My dad tells me a story of when he was a kid. My dad would go shoot squirrels, ducks, rabbits, robins, doves, etc... throughout the week and bring them back to my grandma. She would take them, skin/pluck them and throw the meat in the freezer, then on the weekend make a big gumbo with whatever they killed that week.

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My dad tells me a story of when he was a kid. My dad would go shoot squirrels, ducks, rabbits, robins, doves, etc... throughout the week and bring them back to my grandma. She would take them, skin/pluck them and throw the meat in the freezer, then on the weekend make a big gumbo with whatever they killed that week.

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My Dad did this when we were growing up

we would call it "wild man" gumbo

if lives in LA woods, it probably ended up in that gumbo at some point

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Personally I have grown up under the impression of Separation of Land and Sea Critters.

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Why? So many good surf and turf type combinations. That's like the dreaded "never mix seafood and cheese" rule.

You know what can really overpower seafood? An extremely dark roux.

You foolish people and your inane rules.

Land critters go with land critters, sea critters go with sea critters.

*Sits back and waits for this to become a full-blown Gumbo Fight Thread(tm)*