Fill mud needed

Just curious, why do folks from New Orleans call dirt "mud"?

Is it because it's never really in dirt form down there?

Fyi Nola folks, the rest of the world calls dry mud "dirt".

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Just curious, why do folks from New Orleans call dirt "mud"

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I’m sure it’s different for each person but for the same reason the north calls coke/soda a “pop”. Can’t stand that term but different things have different terms.

As for the reason I call it mud, unless you are truly getting dirt, what we excavate from the Mississippi River and other places to use for fill could be a combination of dirt and hard clay, which I consider mud. I may be alone on that but just what I call it.

I chuckled when my friend from NOLA told me he went to Lowe’s and bought 3 bags of mud for his flowerbeds.