re: What makes Acadians Special?

We can cook, drink, hunt, and fish better than anyone

Ville Platte is sure at the top of good-lookin-women growing list

Food:
Both cajun and creole are awesome. Cajuns make the superior jambalaya, but creoles have better formal dishes. Cajun food is more comfort food where as Creole is better formal dining.

Music: different strokes for different folks. I like Cajun and Zydeco a lot, but my favorite of the home grown genres is brass band funk. I just love it. Trombone Shorty, Rebirth, Soul Rebels, ect are just plain fun.

Accent: Cajuns win by a mile. Too many Chalmations and ghetto accents in the creoles to beat many of the cute Cajun accents.

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Creole food better

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Would disagree- which is fine. It's subjective anyway.

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Nola brass and piano better

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See above. For the people that grew up around it (most, at least), Cajun music > Nola brass

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dialect is terrible sounding and annoying as hell

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And the 'yat' dialect isn't?

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What's the difference in Cajun, creole, Acadian, and a backwoods So. la. Resident.

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Cajuns are French people who Trace their family back to Nova Scotia where they were kicked out and immigrated to South Louisiana, settling mostly in Acadiana. Lafayette is consider the capital of the culture. They are mostly low country French people known for living off the land and low country French one pot cooking.

French Creole is a term given to French People, mostly in and around the New Orleans area. The original meaning derives from the Spanish word "Creola" which means "Nattive to the area" and used to describe those who come from Louisiana when it was under French Rule. New Orleans being the chief center for life became synonymous with French Creole. The cooking is much more classical French in technique and although it's changed a bit over the years with others who assimilated into the melting pot that is New Orleans, it's still very heavily classical French in technique, and a bit more complex that Cajun. More city food than country food.

For the record. The Germans were the first permanent settlers of Louisiana, settling along what is referred to as the German Coast. Most of these people came from Alsace Lorraine and their contributions are centered around farming and andouille.

As an outsider, thank you for lobsters following you to South Louisiana.