re: Watch Homer Simpson eat his way through New Orleans

What the frick is a “Cajun gumbo”?


That’s the point of my tirade. It doesn’t make sense.

Call it what the frick it is because “Cajun” doesn’t tell me much of shite.

Cajun roux - oil and flour

Creole roux - butter and flour

starts with the base and the difference go from there. Hell creole gumbo often has roux, file and okra as well so it's generally a little thicker too.

Not all creole has to have tomatoes, just many do.

Cajun gumbo is a term used here, and not many outside the city realize how few cajun places there are to eat in the city.

All the tomato talk made me remember why I loved my grandma's creole cooking so much. She cooked creole but was allergic to tomatoes and I still pick tomatoes out of most dishes. So she made creole sans tomato, and had the only non red creole jambalaya I knew of.

When someone would make a Shrimp Creole she would say "You wasted all those good gumbo shrimp in spaghetti red gravy"

Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans, you'll catch him at Pelican games.

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Cajun roux - oil and flour

Creole roux - butter and flour

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We made our prize winning gumbo with bacon fat.

And i’ve Made a bang up duck and andouille gumbo with rendered duck fat.


I’ve actually had some decent creole gumbo. I hate on it more than I should. I shite talk about gumbo a lot. Some things just irk me. Tomatoes in gumbo is one of them.

Video makes me want to make a trip down there. Best food in the world and its not even close