Subj : Beer (so I'm on topic)
To : Joe Bruchis
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Fri Jun 09 2017 06:13 am
On Thu Jun-08-2017 13:16, Joe Bruchis (1:3828/12) wrote to Roger Nelson:
JB> Roger Nelson wrote in a message to Joe Bruchis:
RN> Back in my youth in New Orleans it was like this:
RN> Creole food was seasoned to taste by the diner
RN> Cajun food was non-existent, but when it came into being, it was
RN> spicy to spicy-hot. Most of, but not all of the restaurants and
RN> fast food places here serve cajun-type food whether you can stomach
RN> it or not.
JB> Yes. I agree, and that will vary from place to place and especially
JB> if you are served it outside of South Louisiana.
JB> I think Creole food would lean more towards Red Beans and Rice,
My mother cooked that every Monday.
JB> Oysters Rockefeller,
Never had that. I prefer to eat them raw or dipped into some kind of ketchup.
JB> Shrimp Remolaude,
I haven't had a decent one of those since the mid-50s. My cousin Gene and I
ate at a restaurant on Elysian Fields about a mile south of the lake and it had
great food and a Shrimp Remolaude to die for.
JB> Chicken Creole, Creole style Gumbo, Turtle Soup, etc.... those are
JB> derived from the Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian, and many other
JB> immigrant cultures.
I'll pass on the above.
I haven't had a good Jambalaya in a long time. No one around here knows how to
make it without adding cayenne pepper and/or tabasco sauce to it.
JB> Cajun food would be boudin, jambalaya, sausage gumbo, crawfish
JB> dishes, other sausage dishes. These came with the French immigrants
JB> from Nova Scotia, and the local Indian and African cultures.
Not the jambalaya made when I was a youth in N.O. Some gumbos are very good
and don't burn your tongue.
JB> Making me hungry (time for lunch).
RN> I once saw a local lawyer sitting in a Mexican restaurant eating
RN> chili peppers like you'd eat M&Ms.
JB> GAG!! (-:
Yes. (-: The real question is what was I doing there! My ex-wife loves
Mexican food, so that's probably why.
In the time it took to write this soliloquy, Nick could have written a 32-bit
D'Bridge. (-:0
