FOOD POEMS & HUMOR SECTION

YOU MIGHT BE A CAJUN IF...

(This was forwarded to the list at chef net by Fred)

YOU MIGHT BE A CAJUN IF:.....

• Watching "Wild Kingdom" inspires you to write a cookbook.

• You won't eat a lobster because you think it's a crawfish on steroids.

• You take a bite of 5-alarm Texas chili and reach for some Tabasco.

• You pass up a chance to meet the president to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge

• Your children's favorite bedtime story begins with, "First you make a roux..."

• You're asked in school to name the four seasons and you reply, "Onyons, celery, bell peppers, and garlic."

• You think the "Fab Four" are "Paul Prudhomme, John Folse, Justin Wilson, and A.J. Smith".

• You let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled.

• You describe a complete breakfast as some deer sausage, grits and a yard of boudin.

• None of your favorite vacation spots are north of Abbeville.

• You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and someone says, "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what they mean.

• You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather"

• You gave up Tabasco for Lent.

• You learned bourre' the hard way - holding yourself upright in the crib.

• You don't know the real names of your close friends - only their nicknames.

• You can look at a rice field and can tell how much gravy it'll take for that much rice.

• Your high school's rendition of the national anthem begins with, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo..."

• You stand up when they play "Jolie Blon."

• You consider Breaux Bridge the state capitol.

• You think the Mason-Dixon line is at Bunkie.