re: Ascension vs. Livingston - which is trashier?

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To say they don’t know how to make good jambalaya in the jambalaya capital of the world is just blasphemy.

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Self proclaimed “capitals” usually are based upon amounts of not quality of.

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Ive narrowed my location down to Ascension and Livingston. Which parish is the trashiest?

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I can't tell if you are trying to be funny or you want to be in the trashier parish. Livingston is definitely trashier.

Upvoted for connecting the smashed rice dots.

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starter pack that everybody gets that says you have to talk with a "twang" and sound like you're from Mississippi?

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It is weird. I'm from MS and live in Central. It feels like home around here.

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Move to mid city Baton Rouge, why deal with the traffic and trashyness.

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Probably because he's too poor to send his kids to private school, shiite's expensive.

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Ascension vs. Livingston - which is trashier?

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Yes.

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I've always wondered how we can simply drive 3 mins down the road from O'Neal Lane to Livingston Parish and when you talk to somebody it sounds as if you drove 3 hours and deep into Mississippi. Is there some sort of Livingston Parish starter pack that everybody gets that says you have to talk with a "twang" and sound like you're from Mississippi?

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Most people in Livingston Parish are originally from Mississippi and share the same culture with them. Most of the blacks in Baton Rouge are originally from Mississippi as well, moved to Baton Rouge after the 1927 flood to work at Exxon.

The whites in Baton Rouge don't have the same accent because BR has so many transplants from other states (due to Exxon) and from other parts of the state (due to LSU) so all the accents kinda cancel each other out. Baton Rouge, and to a lesser extent AP, not having much of a Cajun or a Redneck accent is the exception to the rule.

I'd say AP is more creole than cajun. Hell, jambalaya is a creole dish. There's a lot more Spanish last names here too. Martinez, Galvez, Gonzales, Gomez, etc. even though they are no where near hispanic.

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I just bought a $360K home and there isn't a trailer or TP within 1.5 miles from me.

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That’s good, but the fact remains that there’s a very likely chance of one popping up anywhere outside of a subdivision. They’re everywhere.

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There's a lot more Spanish last names here too. Martinez, Galvez, Gonzales, Gomez, etc. even though they are no where near hispanic.

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They are Islanos, the descendents of Canary Islanders brought here by the Spanish Governor Galvez to serve as soldiers in the case that the French colonists decided they didn't want to be ruled by Spain any longer. After the French & Indian War, Louisiana (all lands west of the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains and lands east of the Mississippi south of Bayou Manchac, aka the Isle of Orleans) was given to Spain and Florida (modern day Florida plus the Florida Parishes and coastal Mississippi and Alabama) was given to England.

There were two principal Islano settlements established, one in New Iberia (Iberia is the name of the peninsula where Spain and Portugal are located) and Fort Galvez to protect Bayou Manchac from the British (they had won the Florida territories including Baton Rouge in the French and Indian War).

The Islanos were brought here because they knew how to cultivate sugarcane and rice, two cash crops the Spanish believed would make a lot of money in Louisiana (they were right). The Islanos in Ascension Parish served as soldiers under Galvez during the American Revolution, helping him to take over Baton Rouge, Mobile, and nearly every other British installation along the Gulf Coast.

After the war, the forts were abandoned and the Islanos were assimilated into the rest of the Cajun culture in those areas, teaching the locals to raise rice and cane. It was their descendants, a mix of Cajuns, Germans (sausage makers), and Islanos that invented Jambalaya (the brown kind).

The dish was later modified by the addition of tomatos by creole and Italian populations in New Orleans to create Creole Jambalaya.