re: Underbelly - Houston is the new American Creole city of the South

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Well they do say "New Creole," so I'd guess that's why you haven't heard of it before.

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A made up name without any substance but what you want to attribute to it.

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Come on now. That's the pot calling the kettle black. Creole food is also over the map as well. It's a little French, Spanish, African, Native American, Italian, and Lord knows what else.

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No, it's not all over the map, and not everything in NOLA is Creole food, as they serve burgers in Laffy and that doesn't make it Cajun food.

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It seems like you want creole to stop at this one certain definition and not allow it to mean other things or morph into new interpretations.

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Because its the Truth, and because it's my culture, and has been my family's linage since France controlled Louisiana and prior.

This is a very special and unique part of the country, and one with a very rich heritage that has made New Orleans cuisine what it is, and most all of it derived from the French in technique especially and in flavor. Houston Texas has nothing in the line of food to fall back upon, and I see this as a bastardization of the word Creole to attain it, and to make sense of a menu that simple does not make sense.

How about we start calling Baton Rouge food New Eskimo cuisine? Maybe we can serve sushi, hamburgers, and chicken and waffles and explain it as our New Eskimo cuisine? Make any sense? Heck, why not. Words apparently don't mean much anymore as we just put the square peg in the round hole and hit it with a hammer until it fits.

Yes, Houston is the new Creole City, and since IBM is coming, BR is the new Silicon Valley.

I see millions making a pilgrimage to Houston for tasty Creole treats.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Go blow yourself Cowtown.

I'm done. Texans are now Creoles. I'm now a Mexican who eats Mexican sushi. Tomorrow I may be a Martian eating New Creole Borscht, but for today, I'm a Mexican eating Mexican Sushi.

I guess that Scottish/Asian kid from the Starburst commercials was Creole. Now I know.

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A marketing ploy plain and simple. Why can't it just be an original? It should try to be a trendsetter rather than trying to play what it clearly isn't.

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Exactly.

This thread got me thinking, there's a joint in Las Vegas calling themselves Paris. I hear there are neither Frenchmen nor Cajuns at said establishment.
Should we freak out? I eagerly await the boards response.

I knew the FDB would not disappoint with this thread

Houston has always had an image problem. They have tried for YEARS to somehow capture or link themselves to Cajun/Creole/Louisiana, thank god to no avail. They have tried to call themselves the Bayou City, various crawfish festivals, etc.
Houston Tejas is the New New Mexico.

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A marketing ploy plain and simple. Why can't it just be an original? It should try to be a trendsetter rather than trying to play what it clearly isn't.

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+1
when did Korean become creole? lol.

Vietnam meatballs is creole?

Satay is creole or indian?..lets ask Raj...

from what I've read..the whole play is a lie...its not even the biggest or busiest port in the south, but then again, Houston isn't in the south..another lie! lol

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Hasn't Louisiana always had an image problem and isn't that part of what makes it such a unique place? There were the Innjuns, then the Spaniards, then the French, then Africans...so on and son on. Some English here, Haitians there, the occasional European or South American.
Louisiana doesn't have the market cornered on culture, this country is only 250 years old....lets not assume we've all arrived just yet.

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Uh nooooo...no image problem here, except maybe BR. no need to get in a pissing match, but Korean, viet and satay are in NO way shape or form to be considered creole.