I'd like to meet:
YOU MIGHT BE A CAJUN IF...
YOU MIGHT BE A CAJUN IF YOU START AN ANGEL FOOD CAKE WITH A ROUX...
Watching "Wild Kingdom" inspires you to write a cookbook.
You won't eat a lobster because you think it's a crawfish on steriods.
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 let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled.
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.
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 think the head of the United Nations is Boudreaux-Boudreaux Guillory.
You have an "envie" for something instead of a craving.
You use a No. 3 washtub to cover your lawn mower or outboard in your yard.
Your mama says every morning, "Well, I got the rice cooking, what we gonna have for dinner?"
You get a disapproving look from your wife and describe it as "She passed me a pair of eyes..."
You greet your padna at the Lafayette Airport with "IiiiiEeeeeeeeeee!"
You know the difference between Zatarains, Zeringue and zydeco.
Your dog thinks the bed of your pickup is his bed.
You know the meaning of KEEYAW!
You have called someone a DOS GRIS(doe gree). (And Know what it means)
You think "Damn Yankees" live north of Bunkie.
Fred's Lounge in Mamou means more to you than the Grand Ole Opry.
If your "other white meat" is frog legs or alligator.
Grits and Grillades (gree-yahds) are your most favorite breakfast.
Modem is something done to grass.
On line is where you stay during a field sobriety test.
Fax is what you lie about to the I.R.S.
Backup is what you do when you see a skunk in the woods.
You consider Breaux Bridge the state capitol.
You think the Mason-Dixon line is at Bunkie.
THE CAJUN TEN COMMANDMENTS
(unaltered original version found in Deut 5:6-12)
1. Jus be one God in dat Heaven!
2. Don't be having no idols.
3. Don't be cussin' at nobody.
4. Brought yo-self to church when dey open da doors.
5. Listen to you maw-maw an' paw-paw.
6. Don't be kilt nobody.
7. Ma chere, don't sleep wit yo brother's wife.
8. Don't go took nothin' from nobody.
9. Always told da whole troot.
10. Don't go wish fo yo' neighbor's pirogue or tings.
Music:
Classic Rock, Rock, Hard rock, some heavy Metal, Alternative, Zydeco, Jazz, Blues, hell just about anything.
Heroes:
Any of my fellow Brethren that was not able to make it back from Iraq, or any other war.