You Might Be A Cajun If ......

[Janey]

• 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 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 sasuage 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 gravey 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.
  

 

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.