re: Baton Rouge area "Cajun" food sucks

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It's embarrassing that recruits hear about "seafood, gumbo & jambalaya" and there is none edible anywhere near them. As a matter of fact, recruits are introduced to Louisiana culture by going to Texas De Brazil. Shameful.

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You're right a a high school defensive back from Florida is not going to go to LSU despite them putting an absurd amount of db's into the NFL because he had what you consider a subpar plate of jambalaya.

A 17 year old kid would rather go to Texas De Brazil anyway.

You are truly an idiot.

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Dempsy’s Bruh

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Legit

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I'll bite because I'm honestly confused now. What is creole and cajun cuisine? Where?

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Lafayette is Cajun. New Orleans is Creole.

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It's embarrassing that recruits hear about "seafood, gumbo & jambalaya" and there is none edible anywhere near them. As a matter of fact, recruits are introduced to Louisiana culture by going to Texas De Brazil. Shameful.

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Seriously, are you stupid?

If they want to sell a recruit on the food. He comes in on Friday night they can take him to Ruffino's then on Saturday they can take him to someone's tailgate party where, they probably have better jambalaya than any restaurant. And then at some point try to take him to Louisiana Lagniappe and that would do the job.

A lot of defensive butt-hurt in this thread.

You can't help it because you don't know any better.

The sooner you accept it, the easier it will be next time someone else starts a thread that you have no fricking taste buds and they are tired of your false claims of being a bastion of great Louisiana cooking.

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A lot of defensive butt-hurt in this thread

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Who is being defensive? I haven’t seen anyone claiming that BR has good creole or Cajun food

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...so you're one of those people who thinks you can find Cajun food in New Orleans?

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I understand your overall point, but you can get Cajun food in New Orleans.

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First off, Baton Rouge has some good Cajun/creole restaurants you can’t say the entire city sucks because jambalaya shoppe was crappy. Second, if you think BR has good Tex-Mex/BBQ, then you’re sadly mistaken!

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See, here’s the thing.

If you are Basing a city/region’s true culinary prowess on restaurants...you aren’t getting the true story.

While there are many great chefs at many great restaurants, some of the best cooks aren’t working in restaurants. Because restaurants are a business. They require catering to specific tastes of many people, many who don’t know shite about flavor to begin with. Plus they are trying to turn a profit, so sometimes quality/time is sacrificed for expedience and cost.

Some of the best cooking i’ve Had has been from roadside shacks and dingy little hole in the walls (shout out to Dang’s).

Because when you aren’t trying to run as many people through a restaurant to cover overhead and have more time to focus on the food, the passion in it comes out.

It’s the 12 hours of prep that goes into the 10 gallons of gumbo. The painstaking care that you put into 5 briskets and smoke them from before dawn in order to feed a graduation party.


Food is love, and when it is a job, some of the love is lost.

Cooks I know from around here, i’ll Gladly prep with them and throw down against any know it all stuffed shirt chef from some snooty place.

The best cooks I know don’t cook for a living, they cook because they love it. That’s why I don’t want to go into food business despite all the people that tell me I should.

I think i’d Lose the passion.

Honestly Chimes is probably the best bet.

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A lot of defensive butt-hurt in this thread.

You can't help it because you don't know any better.

The sooner you accept it, the easier it will be next time someone else starts a thread that you have no fricking taste buds and they are tired of your false claims of being a bastion of great Louisiana cooking.

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I am not butt-hurt because I know you haven't been anywhere that actually has good food.