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re: What’s the big deal with Lafayette
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:34 am to mdomingue
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:34 am to mdomingue
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My response was to the guy saying Lafayette tried to distance itself from the Cajun Culture. I'm 57 years old, grew up between Lafayette and Scott (when there was a between Lafayette and Scott) and Lafayette has been touting their Cajun culture as long as I can remember. The oilfield has impacted the culture a bit, but there has always been a thread of cajun running through Lafayette. And Lafayette is kind of uniquely placed and tends to be a mingling point for the Prairie Cajun and Swamp Cajun cultures, which vary more than you might think.
I went to school there and lived there while working the oil patch. I can assure you once gone, that dialect is recognizable and persists. I was recently fishing on a large reservoir on the Texas/Louisiana border. There were a bunch of Louisiana people there on vacation. They were from the Lafayette and Lake Charles areas in different groups. And I can still hear that sweet cajun accent when they speak. And all of them; the whole lot of Louisianaians there were passing a real good time!
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Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:37 am to willymeaux
quote:Yea..Lafayette has no good restaurants that can compare to the Court of Two Sisters you eat at when visiting the Big Easy right?
I just spent a day here and it feels like a carbon copy of Alexandria with a faux Cajun French culture. Chain fast-food joints galore and nothing to really do after dark. Am I missing something or is this it?
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:43 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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aTmTexas Dillo
You misspelled dildo.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:45 am to TigerstuckinMS
You mean an area of similar to where your foundation is?
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:50 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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I can assure you once gone, that dialect is recognizable and persists.
The accent submerges when people move away. Then when they come back, gardez donc! It resurfaces in about thirty seconds.
This post was edited on 4/7/19 at 10:51 am
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:50 am to LCA131
Damn LCA you’re on fire this morning.
What’d you spike your Metamucil with?
What’d you spike your Metamucil with?
Posted on 4/7/19 at 10:53 am to LCA131
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You mean an area of similar to where your foundation is?
No. It's above the foundation. Like an underground attic.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 11:03 am to willymeaux
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faux Cajun French culture
Mais, stop being a big old cowan. You got your consons all in a wad, and you hanging the booday. Go fouille around with some of your cooyon baws. And stop acting like you all canaille, when you don’t know merde.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 11:11 am to JudgeHolden
Bunch of people mad that they can’t afford to live in River Ranch and drive their lifted golf carts to Rhythms on the River and head to Ruffinos after. Lol y’all should have got in the oil patch early and sold at the top like me.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 11:13 am to aTmTexas Dillo
Getting that New Iberia haircut has to lower your IQ to somewhere between a banana and a turnip.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 11:24 am to NIH
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Diat lives in Opelousas. He was so excited about Cane’s coming there that he posted about it for months. Poor soul.
And he had the audacity to talk about crackheads in Lafayette ? Opelousas is essentially N Baton Rouge, nothing but thugs, crackheads, criminals, and cultcha
Posted on 4/7/19 at 11:28 am to willymeaux
The pulled pork burrito at Taco Sisters is the best I've ever had.
This post was edited on 4/7/19 at 11:28 am
Posted on 4/7/19 at 11:28 am to willymeaux
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Really though. If you want really good food in either of those places, you gotta go to someone’s house.
Really though, you’re telling me that professionals cannot pull off better or at the very least equal food quality than a weekend warrior?
Posted on 4/7/19 at 1:04 pm to TigerstuckinMS
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Clever. You from Louisiana??
Posted on 4/7/19 at 1:22 pm to willymeaux
You and your friend aren’t doing it right. You’re in peak crawfish season and go to Olive Garden?
Cajun Claws, Red Richard’s, Hawk’s...
Cajun Claws, Red Richard’s, Hawk’s...
Posted on 4/7/19 at 1:32 pm to Sayre
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Taco Sisters
The GOAT.
Try their brisket taco or salad or smoked chicken taco or salad.
They have been serving grilled sheepshead instead of tuna lately.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 1:38 pm to JackieTreehorn
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When you’re going out in Lafayette, you gotta look your best.
This, is very true. Lafayette guys have a 'look' about them moreso than most other places. They all care way too much about their looks and try way too hard to sound like they're more Cajun than they really are. I know Cajun, both my parents are from Ville Platte. That's Cajun, yeah.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 1:40 pm to supadave3
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This, is very true. Lafayette guys have a 'look' about them moreso than most other places. They all care way too much about their looks and try way too hard to sound like they're more Cajun than they really are. I know Cajun, both my parents are from Ville Platte. That's Cajun, yeah.
This is spot on
Laffy folks try really really hard.
Posted on 4/7/19 at 1:48 pm to Mike da Tigah
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Really though, you’re telling me that professionals cannot pull off better or at the very least equal food quality than a weekend warrior?
I always get a laugh when people say that. Hear it a lot with steaks
Posted on 4/7/19 at 2:08 pm to tgrbaitn08
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This is spot on
Laffy folks try really really hard.
Yeah, the epitome of it is River ranch. River ranch is so opposite of north Lafayette, that it's equivalent in trashy. It's the extreme fake/keeping up with the Jones.
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