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re: Who here grew up in Baton Rouge?
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:33 am to junkfunky
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:33 am to junkfunky
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You eat out for every meal?
No, but when I do, I expect professionals to be able to execute better than I can at home, and there are a few who do, but they aren't on the most popular places most people refer to when talking about where they go out to eat here.
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Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:34 am to Mike da Tigah
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Jubans is old school fine dining, about 20 years behind the 8 ball.
yeah, ok
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And while Dempseys is probably operating above the average here, it's far from a serious New Orleans Poboy, and remember, it's just a sandwich were talking about here, not molecular gastronomy.
Oh, I didn't realize this was a New Orleans vs. Baton Rouge pissing match. I was comparing BR to the rest of the country. Go find a decent po-boy in St. Louis, MO.
Anyway, carry on. Don't want any part of the nola-br pissing match.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:36 am to Festus
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Oh, I didn't realize this was a New Orleans vs. Baton Rouge pissing match.
It's a New Orleans staple, and so they get to set the bar, just like with Muffs. When Baton Rouge gets a food identity all it's own and has something they are known for, then they get to set the bar.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:42 am to Mike da Tigah
Baton Rouge has enough good food and fine dining to satisfy me. If you're jonesing for a world class five star experience, new orleans is just an hour away. If you want "authentic cajun" food and what's here doesn't work for you, Lafayette is also an hour away. As another poster stated, I cook more often than I eat out, on my personal list of priorities fine dining is not a forerunner.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:43 am to Mike da Tigah
That wasn't the question posed to me. And the thread is not about BR vs. nola, although I'm sure you have an erection thinking about that thread. Why don't you start it?
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:45 am to Jazzbass13
Born there, moved to Montana when I was 12.
I love BR and Louisiana to death, but Montana is better.
I love BR and Louisiana to death, but Montana is better.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:47 am to Mike da Tigah
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When Baton Rouge gets a food identity all it's own and has something they are known for, then they get to set the bar.
Sensations Salads, Brie and Crabmeat soup, and square pizzas on a conveyor.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:49 am to Festus
You cannot mention Baton Rouge on this board without the New Orleanians coming in to interject their opinion.
I mean the title of the thread is who grew up in BR . I did. I grew up in north BR, I live in prairieville now. Married a chalmette girl. I like to go to New Orleans. I do business in Lafayette, love that town.
I love Louisiana and I love BR if it's not for you that's fine, but no need to hate.
I mean the title of the thread is who grew up in BR . I did. I grew up in north BR, I live in prairieville now. Married a chalmette girl. I like to go to New Orleans. I do business in Lafayette, love that town.
I love Louisiana and I love BR if it's not for you that's fine, but no need to hate.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:51 am to BigJake
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I love BR
But live in Prarieville.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:53 am to SuperflyLSU
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Baton Rouge has enough good food and fine dining to satisfy me. If you're jonesing for a world class five star experience, new orleans is just an hour away. If you want "authentic cajun" food and what's here doesn't work for you, Lafayette is also an hour away. As another poster stated, I cook more often than I eat out, on my personal list of priorities fine dining is not a forerunner.
I'm not talking about fine dining. I'm talking about taking pride in the food you put your name to, reflecting an area that says its food is what sets them apart from the pack.
New Orleanians cook great food in their homes as well, and yet outside of the tourist areas, still manage to blow you away with the restaurant options everywhere you turn. Again, not talking about fine dining, just food in general when eating out. Their expectations are in another league from our own.
Is that because of the elevation change, magnetism from the earth's core, or perhaps they really do care about their food so that to get serious kick arse food I have to get in my car and drive an hour and a half away to find it reflected in restaurants.
Again, there are a few here, but they aren't the most popular joints that people pack on Friday nights.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:53 am to Mike da Tigah
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It is reflected everywhere else where people place a high value on food.
oh mike
Posted on 2/13/14 at 11:54 am to Y.A. Tittle
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Sensations Salads, Brie and Crabmeat soup, and square pizzas on a conveyor
OK... BR gets to set that bar.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:00 pm to Y.A. Tittle
You serious Clark?
Technically I've never lived inside the city limits of BR. I went to high school of of plank road though. My dad owned 3 businesses in br.
To me prairieville is part of Baton Rouge. It's a suburb for sure.
Technically I've never lived inside the city limits of BR. I went to high school of of plank road though. My dad owned 3 businesses in br.
To me prairieville is part of Baton Rouge. It's a suburb for sure.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:01 pm to BigJake
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To me prairieville is part of Baton Rouge. It's a suburb for sure.
Funny, I remember when it was still considered 'the country.'
I suppose, perhaps, that makes me more Baton Rouge than you.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:09 pm to Mike da Tigah
I own a restaurant in the area. We tend to get pretty packed on Friday nights. I know a good number of restaurant owners in the area.
That being said I don't know what you're talking about. The wife and I put our heart and soul into our place. I'll get 100 compliments, but one bad comment makes my stomach turn. You wanna compare everything in BR to Nola. I want to be the best option in my local area, if that makes me compare favorably to Nola restaurants, or New York or wherever fine, the goal is to keep my neighbors happy though.
That being said I don't know what you're talking about. The wife and I put our heart and soul into our place. I'll get 100 compliments, but one bad comment makes my stomach turn. You wanna compare everything in BR to Nola. I want to be the best option in my local area, if that makes me compare favorably to Nola restaurants, or New York or wherever fine, the goal is to keep my neighbors happy though.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:12 pm to Y.A. Tittle
If that's what makes you feel good on this Thursday own that shite old man.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:19 pm to BigJake
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That being said I don't know what you're talking about. The wife and I put our heart and soul into our place. I'll get 100 compliments, but one bad comment makes my stomach turn. You wanna compare everything in BR to Nola. I want to be the best option in my local area, if that makes me compare favorably to Nola restaurants, or New York or wherever fine, the goal is to keep my neighbors happy though.
I don't hate you Big Jake, and it's not necessarily you in particular, but the area that settles, and always has. It prefers bullshite chain crap with TVs littering the walls and Prepackaged garbage to serious food, just as long as it has a lot of it. Overall, it's just nonsense food wise, and it's not that we don't have some good food options, because there are a few that really do take pride in what they "create" but by and large it's just not an area that is rooted in the rest of SLA, because for the most part it's not the same culture in food, as most people here can trace their families back to Mississippi and who came here during the hard times for work at the plants, and so never really took on the whole South Louisiana culture thing in food.. That's just the way it is and always has been here. Doesn't mean it has to remain that way, and it isn't. It's just slow getting there.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:25 pm to Mike da Tigah
We must live in different world's. Can't say I know anybody from Mississippi. Everyone I grew up with have Cajun last names, Jake and I included
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:35 pm to Mike da Tigah
I can't stand chain restaurants. Like heady said mine and his people came here from Avoyelles parish. Something's you're saying may ring true, but you are wrongheaded on some other things.
Mostly you need to find some other places to eat.
Mostly you need to find some other places to eat.
Posted on 2/13/14 at 12:35 pm to HeadyMurphey
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We must live in different world's. Can't say I know anybody from Mississippi. Everyone I grew up with have Cajun last names, Jake and I included
I don't know where you live, but I live in the real one here, and that's where the population came from, and yes, I come from some of the very same names you are thinking, but BR is very much comprised of people who Trace their families back to Mississippi, which is why it's not considered a Cajun area at all, and why it has an identity issue and small mans complex when it comes to NOLA that it always had penis envy of.
For the same reason, and up to the 50's and early 60's boiled crawfish was not very big or well known here as it is today when we began to be exposed to it more. Just take a look at the big restaurants back then and you'll see it had very little to do with South Louisiana cultural cuisine for the most part. It still suffers mightily in that department, and that's the reason.
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