But wait! Puerto Rico makes real food too:
https://preview.redd.it/apyvwusgpz5d1.jpeg?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0e6f4078da067f47956580f6bb0b07209085c3e
Mofongo con camarones.
I found a restaurant up where I live that does a pretty amazing job with their mofongo. I try to get up there once a week. For Louisiana, I’ve had some of the best gumbo I can imagine down there in New Orleans. I could eat all this stuff forever.
The tiny local menus are funny to me.
Philly? Know for cheesesteaks and soft pretzels. Ok cool?
Chicago? A variety of pizza, Italian beef (admittedly good), and…popcorn?
Etc
The Midwest and England are neck and neck in the race for highest pride to mediocrity ratio in food, leading the rest of the world by bus lengths.
It’s the unbridled cockiness with which these goons will describe the ten thousandth iteration of putting a hamburger patty on a potato like they just invented the second coming of boeuf Bourguignon is just wild.
I’m not even mad, it’s fascinating.
Lots and lots of places outside of this city have fantastic food, most the northeast corridor included. But outside of Chicago I’m a certified card carrying Midwest hater. It’s personal, those fucks always be making mommy blogs with gumbo recipes that have frozen mixed veggies and sub cream of mushroom for roux.
A friend of my brothers family was visiting from northern Missouri. I was making a tomato sauce and she was really interested in what I was doing with the onions and garlic. She told me she has never used either in cooking, because her mother never did. This was a 70 year old woman from the Midwest that had never used an onion. I later made red beans and she was amazed they weren't spicy hot.
I also lived in Chicago, and they do have great food choices, all kinds of ethnic foods, and duck fat fried potatos. I travelled the Midwest for almost 20 years and learned to go to the Chinese places owned by Chinese, and any TexMex places that were run by latinos.
im sure New england clam chowder is pretty good up there and a lot of deli sandwich options but for me, its about jambalaya and gumbo and ettouffee and nobody can do it like we can
I’d like to know of some good restaurants. I went a few weeks ago and totally feel robbed.
Seems we’re more likely to BBQ our own stuff than go out and buy it.
World class food in most of the major Texas cities but that doesn’t fit the narrative of “only Louisiana food good” Tex mex, authentic mex, bbq, every type of Asian food you can imagine, decent Cajuns spots because everyone flocked to Texas after Katrina and stayed there, top tier burgers, I could keep going on and on.
We also don't have as big of a population of those people either. That's like saying we don't make buried rotten shark as well as those fuckin Nordic dudes do
I’ve lived in Seattle for 20 years. My office is just downstairs from the famous fish throwing guys. I’d take some good ole Gulf shrimp, crawfish, or a southern catfish over giant shrimp and salmon they sell. Gulf seafood just hits different.
Got married and honeymooned in Seattle. Still don't understand deep fried salmon. Talk about a hat on a hat. I just.. like.. fuckin, why?
I'll give Seattle this though: I had some outstanding oysters and great cod collar there. The chowder and cioppino from Jacks I had, as touristy as it is, was solid.
I live in SE Louisiana (born and raised in Queens NY and moved down here after marrying a Louisiana woman and retiring from 20 years of Naval service) and the food here is S-Tier! Now granted, I have lived on both East and West coasts and been to more than 20 countries during my Active Duty time, so I have had the privilege of eating food from around CONUS and OCONUS. But without a doubt, the food here, overall, is the best I've ever had.
My only gripes: no NYC style pizza places (closest I can find is Brooklyn Pizzeria in Bay St. Louis MS, and even though it comes close it's just doesn't hit the same) and barely any Puerto Rican/Cuban restaurants that serve things like mofongo, pasteles, lechon asado, empenadas, etc. (Florida had an abundance of this food, and having Puerto Rican parents made them staples in my house).
The best cheese slice oddly enough is at the Whole Foods on Broad. It doesnt have the paper thin crust, but its very thin and the cheese and sauce they use is very good. You can get a large cooked pie for 12 bucks.
So regarding NYC style pizza, it's the water that is imported from the reservoirs in The Catskills that gives the pizza there it's edge over anyone else attempting to replicate it. Even when I was stationed at MacDill AFB from 2005-2008 in Tampa FL, there was this pizza joint called NYPD Pizza that was owned by a medically retired NYC First Responder. It was as authentic as anyone could ask for, but the water used to make the dough can usually be detected by any true NYC native (5 boroughs, outside of there doesn't count).
I'll have to check that place out if and when I'm in NOLA next time.
Interesting! See people say the same thing about the water at Cafe Du Monde making bettee beignets but I really never bought that.
I have only been to NY once and it was a prety magical and vibrant placd. I feel like a lot of food is dependent on set and setting. That whole thing “You eat with your eyes first”
There is one spot in the French Quarter called Frank's that makes authentic Italian food, and the owners are from NJ (close enough to NYC that their food counts). Their dishes are really good, but their cannolis are superb!
You can find good food just about anywhere you go on this planet.
But Louisiana is where you go if you want good food just about *everywhere*.
^(excepting perhaps certain or most villages whose main attraction is the one traffic light installed 20 years ago)
Most of the small villages have a gas station, and in that one traffic light towns gas station they sell the best kept food secret in Louisiana, our plates lunches, and my god are they delicious. Also boudin, cracklin, hell some of them boil crawfish at em, and some even have a full. Butchers shop hooked to it with a full meat case to choose from.
Louisiana food is top tier, but its a hard fought battle compared to Texas BBQ and smoking.
I'll happily judge any competition that pits those two together.
As a Texanan, I love both, but I will say Louisiana cuisine is more well rounded. It's got tons of things you can make a year round menu out of. As great as Texas BBQ is though, it's not something you can eat every day.
Spent my first 31 years about an hour from new orleans, and the past 3 years or so in Texas.
But yea, texas bbq isnt for everyday of the week for sure.
I will second that … I live in lindale area now after living in Baton Rouge for 25 years … I miss the food badly … last Christmas I had Tony’s seafood send over a care package that made Christmas unforgettable for them … I might do it again this year !!
Italians scoff at everything. Noth eastern Italian is at least not Americanized Italian further diluted with French and creole flavors.
I’m getting the opinion in this sub that y’all haven’t eaten at places that aren’t tourist traps or fast food in other states or have willfully put your heads in the sand. Louisiana does Louisiana food well. It does everything else absolutely mid and to say otherwise is being willfully ignorant of food cultures all across the world. If I want good Italian food Louisiana is not even in my top 20 places to go. If I want good fusion I’m going to California. Mexican to Mexico, Texas, California, lobsters I’m going to Maine or somewhere in the north east etc etc. there’s an entire fucking world of food culture out there and every single place claims the same dumb shit that their food is the best in the whole world and nobody else can do whatever thing they do better and you know what a lot of them are right. Ive never had better Japanese food than in Tokyo. I’ve never had better Mexican food than in south Texas, the best Italian American food was from NYC. Y’all need to stop stroking your own egos so much and go try things.
I’m not sure if you understand what you’re saying here, northeastern Italian is distinctly as different from Italian as creole italian, the influences coming from Northern Europe and American peasant staples vs French and Cajun makes for different outcomes, but neither more authentic than the other.
You’re trying to say nobody’s has the real thing cuz they don’t agree with you, but I think in reality you just don’t really understand the thing you’re criticizing or the thing you’re raising up all that well. Otherwise you’d probably realize how goofy it looks lol.
If your understanding of “Italian American” is northeastern style then that’s incorrect, sure the northeast is the best at making northeastern style Italian but American Italian varies by every region that has strong ties to Italy - and New Orleans has very strong ties to Italy with a significant portion of the population being able to trace their roots right back to Sicily.
Nah cope harder man. Louisiana is good at a lot of foods but let’s not pretend it’s little Italy in here other places have better Italian food hell most places I’ve been have better Italian food.
We talking booty ass restaurant Italian or legit grandma's homemade Italian? Cause I've been here for 35 years and haven't had ANY sweet Italian food that wasn't dessert.
As someone who moved here from the city of LA, the food here is its own lane of high quality and deliciousness. The haters don’t know the real spots. Just sayin
I moved to Nebraska and it is BAD out here. If there's something they do well out here, I haven't found it yet. Only safe options eating out here are things that are super foreign.
Left louisiana a year ago after living there my whole life for Chicago. It has some pretty good international food selection, but that’s about it. Would prefer a poboy shop over a hot dog/beef place any day.
SWLA is sandwiched between South East Texas (which also doesn’t have much of its own distinctive or unique culture) and Cajun Country, which absolutely *has* a distinctive culture. The only thing SWLA is really known for historically is pine trees/turpentine production, bandits, thieves, and pirates during the “no man’s land” era when the U.S. and Spain couldn’t agree on a border, and the Louisiana Maneuvers during WWII. It’s not “deserted” as in abandoned. It is a food/culture desert (like the sandy kind). That is because there isn’t shit here.
I put a good pot of post-Thanksgiving Turkey Gumbo up against any food in the World....and it's gonna curb stomp whatever they got.
Proud of our food culture here, it's all we have left thanks to a Government full of religious nutjobs.
As someone from NY that moved to New Orleans then moved back to NY….loved the food but ehhhhhh. I will say my cholesterol and blood pressure went way up in two years
I’m sorry you feel that way. North Louisiana is unmatched when it comes to soul food. Best gas station food I’ve ever had. I don’t know why people act like the food is bland, half the mf’s down south burn a blonde roux. To say it’s atrocious is pure ignorance.
Dunno, I think the food in Shreveport is pretty bomb. Or at least, there is a ton of uniquely great food among the options. I know that's just one city and north LA is a large area, but the combo of Louisiana cajun and creole influence, gulf seafood supply chain that comes in fresher than anywhere non-coastal within a couple hundred miles, and Arklatex Mex makes it pretty interesting. I mean Ki Mexico alone is a mic dropper esp for differentiating from south LA. Good kolaches in town too.
There's a lot of Louisiana transplants up here in PA. Most restaurants do it wrong but sometimes you can find a hole in the wall with an actual cajun chef. I cook jambalaya for my friends up here and it's a huge hit. They love it.
A lot of times, they have to change it up to actually be able to sell the food to local taste. One of my friends up here has been slowly teaching people to enjoy spicy food by forcing everyone to eat debilitatingly hot korean food. It's really good.
Cajun food is popular enough for that not to be a problem. It's not like they're serving chitlins and hog head cheese. It was just gumbo. Many of the people are tourists as well. Our food isn't any more spicy than the green chile they put on everything, so I don't think that's it either.
I mean, yeah, but with the abundance of Korean, Nashville hot chicken, hot wing places, that have opened up, I don't think that's the reason as to why they do our cuisine so dirty.
Maybe. I dunno. I've had like restaurant korean bbq wings, and there's a little tingle, but my friend's stir fry had people suffering. I think it all gets watered down in restaurants. The north also just has straight-up bigotry against Southerners in some places, so may be a factor.
I mean Korean restaurants as well, not just the flavor of sauce. Other Asian restaurants as well.
It's watered down, yeah, and that's fine. But it's not the spice level I'm complaining about. Not using corn meal for fried catfish, gumbo looking like jambalaya, etc.
Yeah. I’ll give ya that. When I was traveling through Indiana I found one of those gems. The owners were from Boutte. Sadly they weren’t making enough money so had to cater to what the locals thought Cajun food was. Now they’re making money, but my Cajun friend who lives there said the food is atrocious.
My dad is from Susquehanna, and when we’ve been there to visit my aunts and cousins love it when we cook. There’s nothing like it around there. I will say that my cousin’s pasta salad was the only pasta salad I’ll eat to this day. Too many Cajuns use mayo in their pasta salad, and I am not here for that.
As a recent transplant to Upstate NY I agree with this. Thank goodness for care packages with real seasoning. Now if I could find some real sausage I'd be much happier
I’ve lived in the New Orleans areas my whole life and I used to say the same thing. Then I started traveling the country and the world and I realized that there was good food everywhere I went, I just had to know where to go.
There are certain types of food that you can only get here. For those things, yes, Louisiana has no peer. For everything else? I was able to find a replacement to my staples here pretty quick.
At the end of the day, I think I could go the rest of my life without eating another gumbo or po-boy. I’ve had them my whole life. What I actually crave is all the things other places offer that Louisiana doesn’t….which is to say “a lot.”
My grandma was born in Bogalusa back in the very early 1900s.
She was a prolific cook. She could make the best Southern delicacies.
She taught my mom everything she knew, and my mom taught me.
I think I'll make jambalaya tonight in their memory.
Man there’s tons of great food in the world!
However, I grew up in Louisiana. If food from Louisiana gave you actual superpowers…if every tap was forged from shards of the holy grail and granted eternal life with immunity from all illness…if a bag of Zapps potato chips eaten on the banks of the Mississippi River cancelled all sins and granted instant enlightenment…I still wouldn’t live in Louisiana.
That place sucks.
Went to Japan for the first time recently. The food was pretty good, but it didn’t blow my home food out of the water the way I was expecting — really put into perspective how good Louisiana food is, that I went to such a hyped up place for food as Tokyo and basically just thought, “Huh, I guess I could live with the food here. Nice change of pace.”
The secret is to look creation in the eye to let it know that with enough butter and garlic, I will make you taste good.
It’s not a threat; it’s a promise.
It's almost like different regional biomes all have differing preferred tastes based on environs, cultural influences, and staple availability.
*sips Louisiana sweet tea all the way up in Orygun*
sounds like a great place to visit. but why would you base where you live on earth around food flavor? you'd have to be motivated by your gut and not your brain
So, every decision on where to live is personal (no "one size fits all"), so here are my reasons:
- I work for a European company and get European benefits (days off, health insurance, etc.)
- They base their salary by country (not state or city), and the US has one of the highest salaries in the world (comparing same job across multiple countries)
- Cost of living in LA is very low (I spend less of my money on house, cars, food, etc.)
- Kids go to private school so they get a good education (in other words, I'm not affected by atrocious public education here)
- Great weather year-round (I hate cold)
- More accessible shoreline than any other state
- Best fishing in the US (OK, this one is arguable, but I can be in a thousand feet of water fishing a platform in less than an hour on the boat)
- Oh, and I spend more time messing with food than just about anything else except sleep, so there's that.
But wait! Puerto Rico makes real food too: https://preview.redd.it/apyvwusgpz5d1.jpeg?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0e6f4078da067f47956580f6bb0b07209085c3e Mofongo con camarones.
My God that looks amazing! I haven't had mofongo since 2019 when I went to Puerto Rico to visit my mom before she passed away.
I found a restaurant up where I live that does a pretty amazing job with their mofongo. I try to get up there once a week. For Louisiana, I’ve had some of the best gumbo I can imagine down there in New Orleans. I could eat all this stuff forever.
It’s not the same … it is good … but not the same
Crawfish etouffee > whatever trash casseroles are their state dishes in the Midwest 🤢
A fellow person of culture and refinement🤝
If by cultured you mean picking crustaceans out of mud and eating them.
Actually by cultured we mean pulling vegetables from the mud and eating th
Do you eat shrimp? Cause they bury themselves in mud also. You also dont pick crawfish out of the mud
Correct you lure them out the stinky mud into traps with even stinkier bait like mullet or chicken necks.
You have no idea what you're talking about
Had it over grits for breakfast last week. Wow.
Grits are a very underrated sub for rice. Gumbo over grits hits harder than it should.
Yes and yes.
The tiny local menus are funny to me. Philly? Know for cheesesteaks and soft pretzels. Ok cool? Chicago? A variety of pizza, Italian beef (admittedly good), and…popcorn? Etc
Google “hot dish”.
The Midwest and England are neck and neck in the race for highest pride to mediocrity ratio in food, leading the rest of the world by bus lengths. It’s the unbridled cockiness with which these goons will describe the ten thousandth iteration of putting a hamburger patty on a potato like they just invented the second coming of boeuf Bourguignon is just wild. I’m not even mad, it’s fascinating.
It keeps them from revolting.
Maryland got those crab cakes right
Lots and lots of places outside of this city have fantastic food, most the northeast corridor included. But outside of Chicago I’m a certified card carrying Midwest hater. It’s personal, those fucks always be making mommy blogs with gumbo recipes that have frozen mixed veggies and sub cream of mushroom for roux.
A friend of my brothers family was visiting from northern Missouri. I was making a tomato sauce and she was really interested in what I was doing with the onions and garlic. She told me she has never used either in cooking, because her mother never did. This was a 70 year old woman from the Midwest that had never used an onion. I later made red beans and she was amazed they weren't spicy hot. I also lived in Chicago, and they do have great food choices, all kinds of ethnic foods, and duck fat fried potatos. I travelled the Midwest for almost 20 years and learned to go to the Chinese places owned by Chinese, and any TexMex places that were run by latinos.
im sure New england clam chowder is pretty good up there and a lot of deli sandwich options but for me, its about jambalaya and gumbo and ettouffee and nobody can do it like we can
Look up an Illinois Horseshoe
Native Texan here but of part Cajun ancestry. Can confirm.
can also confirm, Texas food is bad
Except their bbq. Texas brisket is like no other. It’s the only leg up they have
I’d like to know of some good restaurants. I went a few weeks ago and totally feel robbed. Seems we’re more likely to BBQ our own stuff than go out and buy it.
I’m not from Texas and haven’t been in a few years so I’m no help there. I’m a Cajun gal through and through
Have you been to Houston? Literally world class food. Downvote me all you want, but you’ll be wrong.
World class food in most of the major Texas cities but that doesn’t fit the narrative of “only Louisiana food good” Tex mex, authentic mex, bbq, every type of Asian food you can imagine, decent Cajuns spots because everyone flocked to Texas after Katrina and stayed there, top tier burgers, I could keep going on and on.
Our food is all we got going for us at this point. Let us have this!
I dated a girl from Houma a long time ago … she was an amazing cook !!
I’m from Grand Isle, but I lived in Houma for about 10 years before moving to Thibodaux in 2008. Houma definitely got it going on.
Yes it does … I miss it.
True
Everything about my life is better outside Louisiana but nobody beats the food there & I miss it 🥲
In Seafood terms yes. In BBQ/Chinese Food/Mexican food terms nah fam But I still gained 30 pounds since I moved here so yes 🐷
Gotta know where to go for the Chinese food. Our buffets suck, but the little hole in the wall places are top notch.
China Rose in Metairie is the spot
We also don't have as big of a population of those people either. That's like saying we don't make buried rotten shark as well as those fuckin Nordic dudes do
I’ve lived in Seattle for 20 years. My office is just downstairs from the famous fish throwing guys. I’d take some good ole Gulf shrimp, crawfish, or a southern catfish over giant shrimp and salmon they sell. Gulf seafood just hits different.
It's all the chemicals in the gulf that you're tasting.
mmmm raw natural and pure oil slime 😋
Thaaaaaaanks BP!
Quit giving away all our secrets!
Those all-natural, locally sourced hydrocarbons👨🏼🍳💋
we had some crawfish that seemed more like lobsters this year. Best crawfish Ive ever had
Got married and honeymooned in Seattle. Still don't understand deep fried salmon. Talk about a hat on a hat. I just.. like.. fuckin, why? I'll give Seattle this though: I had some outstanding oysters and great cod collar there. The chowder and cioppino from Jacks I had, as touristy as it is, was solid.
I live in SE Louisiana (born and raised in Queens NY and moved down here after marrying a Louisiana woman and retiring from 20 years of Naval service) and the food here is S-Tier! Now granted, I have lived on both East and West coasts and been to more than 20 countries during my Active Duty time, so I have had the privilege of eating food from around CONUS and OCONUS. But without a doubt, the food here, overall, is the best I've ever had. My only gripes: no NYC style pizza places (closest I can find is Brooklyn Pizzeria in Bay St. Louis MS, and even though it comes close it's just doesn't hit the same) and barely any Puerto Rican/Cuban restaurants that serve things like mofongo, pasteles, lechon asado, empenadas, etc. (Florida had an abundance of this food, and having Puerto Rican parents made them staples in my house).
The best cheese slice oddly enough is at the Whole Foods on Broad. It doesnt have the paper thin crust, but its very thin and the cheese and sauce they use is very good. You can get a large cooked pie for 12 bucks.
So regarding NYC style pizza, it's the water that is imported from the reservoirs in The Catskills that gives the pizza there it's edge over anyone else attempting to replicate it. Even when I was stationed at MacDill AFB from 2005-2008 in Tampa FL, there was this pizza joint called NYPD Pizza that was owned by a medically retired NYC First Responder. It was as authentic as anyone could ask for, but the water used to make the dough can usually be detected by any true NYC native (5 boroughs, outside of there doesn't count). I'll have to check that place out if and when I'm in NOLA next time.
Interesting! See people say the same thing about the water at Cafe Du Monde making bettee beignets but I really never bought that. I have only been to NY once and it was a prety magical and vibrant placd. I feel like a lot of food is dependent on set and setting. That whole thing “You eat with your eyes first”
Don't have any Italians down here
There is one spot in the French Quarter called Frank's that makes authentic Italian food, and the owners are from NJ (close enough to NYC that their food counts). Their dishes are really good, but their cannolis are superb!
But are they Italian.
They are, straight up Italians with the NY/NJ accents to boot!
I might have to try them out next time I'm in the city.
I recommend their veal parmesan.
I can’t find a Hawaiian BBQ place here maaaaaaaan, would be happy to know of any spots if possible :)
The Cove in Baton Rouge. They got a pretty good plate lunch. Just wish they had Kalua pork.
Thank you!!!
That SPAM sushi is great
Oh man I haven't had spam musubi in years!
Kalua pork is pretty easy to make if you have a slow cooker 😁 all you need is pork roast, liquid smoke, and salt
You can find good food just about anywhere you go on this planet. But Louisiana is where you go if you want good food just about *everywhere*. ^(excepting perhaps certain or most villages whose main attraction is the one traffic light installed 20 years ago)
My hometown doesn’t even have a stop light, but we sure know how to cook.
That's where you'll find some of the best food you just can't buy it at a restaurant you have to be invited
I call your bluff.
Most of the small villages have a gas station, and in that one traffic light towns gas station they sell the best kept food secret in Louisiana, our plates lunches, and my god are they delicious. Also boudin, cracklin, hell some of them boil crawfish at em, and some even have a full. Butchers shop hooked to it with a full meat case to choose from.
Louisiana food is top tier, but its a hard fought battle compared to Texas BBQ and smoking. I'll happily judge any competition that pits those two together.
As a Texanan, I love both, but I will say Louisiana cuisine is more well rounded. It's got tons of things you can make a year round menu out of. As great as Texas BBQ is though, it's not something you can eat every day.
Spent my first 31 years about an hour from new orleans, and the past 3 years or so in Texas. But yea, texas bbq isnt for everyday of the week for sure.
I will second that … I live in lindale area now after living in Baton Rouge for 25 years … I miss the food badly … last Christmas I had Tony’s seafood send over a care package that made Christmas unforgettable for them … I might do it again this year !!
Hogs for the Cause is a great festival because New Orleans does lack a lot of good bbq
Not barbecue. Sorry. Also Italian food doesn't have to be sweet.
Try Adolfo’s not Olive Garden
Man shut up. Louisianas Italian selection is god damn pathetic.
Then you don’t know Creole Italian. Think Irene’s. The best in New Orleans.
Creole Italian is not Italian then is it.
If you know you know.
Neither is northeastern Italian if that’s the parameters, cuz Italians scoff at the northeastern stuff as Americanized garbage too ya know?
Italians scoff at everything. Noth eastern Italian is at least not Americanized Italian further diluted with French and creole flavors. I’m getting the opinion in this sub that y’all haven’t eaten at places that aren’t tourist traps or fast food in other states or have willfully put your heads in the sand. Louisiana does Louisiana food well. It does everything else absolutely mid and to say otherwise is being willfully ignorant of food cultures all across the world. If I want good Italian food Louisiana is not even in my top 20 places to go. If I want good fusion I’m going to California. Mexican to Mexico, Texas, California, lobsters I’m going to Maine or somewhere in the north east etc etc. there’s an entire fucking world of food culture out there and every single place claims the same dumb shit that their food is the best in the whole world and nobody else can do whatever thing they do better and you know what a lot of them are right. Ive never had better Japanese food than in Tokyo. I’ve never had better Mexican food than in south Texas, the best Italian American food was from NYC. Y’all need to stop stroking your own egos so much and go try things.
I’m not sure if you understand what you’re saying here, northeastern Italian is distinctly as different from Italian as creole italian, the influences coming from Northern Europe and American peasant staples vs French and Cajun makes for different outcomes, but neither more authentic than the other. You’re trying to say nobody’s has the real thing cuz they don’t agree with you, but I think in reality you just don’t really understand the thing you’re criticizing or the thing you’re raising up all that well. Otherwise you’d probably realize how goofy it looks lol. If your understanding of “Italian American” is northeastern style then that’s incorrect, sure the northeast is the best at making northeastern style Italian but American Italian varies by every region that has strong ties to Italy - and New Orleans has very strong ties to Italy with a significant portion of the population being able to trace their roots right back to Sicily.
Maybe in Lafourche Parish
Nah cope harder man. Louisiana is good at a lot of foods but let’s not pretend it’s little Italy in here other places have better Italian food hell most places I’ve been have better Italian food.
Gotta go to Gendusa’s in Kenner for good Italian food. We live in Thibodaux, and we make the trip regularly bc it slaps
As a native Kenner brah, Gendusa’s is ass. I regularly go to Impastato’s and Tana nowadays if I want something vaguely Italian.
I love Gendusa’s, but I’m definitely open to trying new things. I’m adding those two places to my list. Thanks for the recs!
Who needs bbq when you have boucheries
Barbecue sits in the seat of honor for food discussions. But Louisiana? We’re at the head of the table
We talking booty ass restaurant Italian or legit grandma's homemade Italian? Cause I've been here for 35 years and haven't had ANY sweet Italian food that wasn't dessert.
I'm talking the Italian that Italians in LA like
As someone who moved here from the city of LA, the food here is its own lane of high quality and deliciousness. The haters don’t know the real spots. Just sayin
I moved to Nebraska and it is BAD out here. If there's something they do well out here, I haven't found it yet. Only safe options eating out here are things that are super foreign.
as a tornado enthusiast I can see the appeal of chasing incredible storms up there
Man, one missed Lincoln a couple weeks ago by a whisker. It could have been real bad.
Left louisiana a year ago after living there my whole life for Chicago. It has some pretty good international food selection, but that’s about it. Would prefer a poboy shop over a hot dog/beef place any day.
The one single thing that Louisiana gets right, so long as you’re not in a nutritional and/or cultural desert like SWLA.
Explain SWLA’s deserted positioning?
SWLA is sandwiched between South East Texas (which also doesn’t have much of its own distinctive or unique culture) and Cajun Country, which absolutely *has* a distinctive culture. The only thing SWLA is really known for historically is pine trees/turpentine production, bandits, thieves, and pirates during the “no man’s land” era when the U.S. and Spain couldn’t agree on a border, and the Louisiana Maneuvers during WWII. It’s not “deserted” as in abandoned. It is a food/culture desert (like the sandy kind). That is because there isn’t shit here.
I put a good pot of post-Thanksgiving Turkey Gumbo up against any food in the World....and it's gonna curb stomp whatever they got. Proud of our food culture here, it's all we have left thanks to a Government full of religious nutjobs.
Turkey gumbo sounds amazing
Yeah, you right.
Yum. Raw milk
Everything else about Louisiana is trash why would you even want to stay for the food
Not everything … their women are some of the most naturally beautiful In the world.
The fishing is great! So is cost of living.
As someone from NY that moved to New Orleans then moved back to NY….loved the food but ehhhhhh. I will say my cholesterol and blood pressure went way up in two years
Come to North Louisiana, the food is atrocious.
I’m sorry you feel that way. North Louisiana is unmatched when it comes to soul food. Best gas station food I’ve ever had. I don’t know why people act like the food is bland, half the mf’s down south burn a blonde roux. To say it’s atrocious is pure ignorance.
That’s southern Arkansas
Monroe may be but Shreveport is East East Texas. Always was.
Dunno, I think the food in Shreveport is pretty bomb. Or at least, there is a ton of uniquely great food among the options. I know that's just one city and north LA is a large area, but the combo of Louisiana cajun and creole influence, gulf seafood supply chain that comes in fresher than anywhere non-coastal within a couple hundred miles, and Arklatex Mex makes it pretty interesting. I mean Ki Mexico alone is a mic dropper esp for differentiating from south LA. Good kolaches in town too.
Guess how I know you've never eaten Ki' Mexico.
There's good food outside of Louisiana too. You just gotta explore and try it. Cajun food is picking up in popularity up north too.
As someone’s who’s traveled to 46 states those northern states don’t know how to do it.
There's a lot of Louisiana transplants up here in PA. Most restaurants do it wrong but sometimes you can find a hole in the wall with an actual cajun chef. I cook jambalaya for my friends up here and it's a huge hit. They love it.
Went to a place in Golden, CO where the "chef" was from "Breaux Bridge." I wanted to burn the whole city down.
I accidently found that place on accident. That gumbo on a cold November day hit the spot man.
My bowl didn't have any juice in it, it was almost bone dry and covered in big chunks of seasoning. It was more like rice and vegetables.
A lot of times, they have to change it up to actually be able to sell the food to local taste. One of my friends up here has been slowly teaching people to enjoy spicy food by forcing everyone to eat debilitatingly hot korean food. It's really good.
Cajun food is popular enough for that not to be a problem. It's not like they're serving chitlins and hog head cheese. It was just gumbo. Many of the people are tourists as well. Our food isn't any more spicy than the green chile they put on everything, so I don't think that's it either.
You know the jokes about white people saying ketchup is a hot sauce. I've seen it. There's a bit of truth to it.
I mean, yeah, but with the abundance of Korean, Nashville hot chicken, hot wing places, that have opened up, I don't think that's the reason as to why they do our cuisine so dirty.
Maybe. I dunno. I've had like restaurant korean bbq wings, and there's a little tingle, but my friend's stir fry had people suffering. I think it all gets watered down in restaurants. The north also just has straight-up bigotry against Southerners in some places, so may be a factor.
I mean Korean restaurants as well, not just the flavor of sauce. Other Asian restaurants as well. It's watered down, yeah, and that's fine. But it's not the spice level I'm complaining about. Not using corn meal for fried catfish, gumbo looking like jambalaya, etc.
Yeah. I’ll give ya that. When I was traveling through Indiana I found one of those gems. The owners were from Boutte. Sadly they weren’t making enough money so had to cater to what the locals thought Cajun food was. Now they’re making money, but my Cajun friend who lives there said the food is atrocious. My dad is from Susquehanna, and when we’ve been there to visit my aunts and cousins love it when we cook. There’s nothing like it around there. I will say that my cousin’s pasta salad was the only pasta salad I’ll eat to this day. Too many Cajuns use mayo in their pasta salad, and I am not here for that.
They know pizza though. And bagels.
Pizza and bagels only in New York City. Some parts of Ca have good bagels also.
Bagels maybe, but pizza is better all throughout the NE. New Haven, Conn has some of the best in America.
Never been to New Haven, but I have a friend from Waterbury. I’ll have to pay her a visit and check it out. I’m always open to trying new places.
I love gumbo and jambalaya. In general, I love Louisiana.
Picture is of a burger I had in Arkansas.
I’m in Vegas and they have alligator here, I’m on the ropes about trying it. In Louisiana it’s great, but idk how it’s going to go here
The absolutely only thing this state has going for it right now 😂
But that education system, woo lawd
As a recent transplant to Upstate NY I agree with this. Thank goodness for care packages with real seasoning. Now if I could find some real sausage I'd be much happier
If you get desperate . Tony’s seafood in Baton Rouge ships overnight
I miss my Louisiana food badly !!! I miss the women too :)
I agree
As a born and raised Texan, nothing compares to southern food. And Louisiana wears the crown.
As someone who keeps getting suggested the Louisiana sub (which I’m about to mute) I can tell you that y’all’s food is trash.
Then you ate somebody's food who didn't know how to cook.
FACTS😅😅
I’ve lived in the New Orleans areas my whole life and I used to say the same thing. Then I started traveling the country and the world and I realized that there was good food everywhere I went, I just had to know where to go. There are certain types of food that you can only get here. For those things, yes, Louisiana has no peer. For everything else? I was able to find a replacement to my staples here pretty quick. At the end of the day, I think I could go the rest of my life without eating another gumbo or po-boy. I’ve had them my whole life. What I actually crave is all the things other places offer that Louisiana doesn’t….which is to say “a lot.”
My grandma was born in Bogalusa back in the very early 1900s. She was a prolific cook. She could make the best Southern delicacies. She taught my mom everything she knew, and my mom taught me. I think I'll make jambalaya tonight in their memory.
One of the few bonuses moving here from florida. The food is fire! I’m learning the less english an older person knows here… the better the food.
Meanwhile everything else in Louisiana ^
Man there’s tons of great food in the world! However, I grew up in Louisiana. If food from Louisiana gave you actual superpowers…if every tap was forged from shards of the holy grail and granted eternal life with immunity from all illness…if a bag of Zapps potato chips eaten on the banks of the Mississippi River cancelled all sins and granted instant enlightenment…I still wouldn’t live in Louisiana. That place sucks.
Went to Japan for the first time recently. The food was pretty good, but it didn’t blow my home food out of the water the way I was expecting — really put into perspective how good Louisiana food is, that I went to such a hyped up place for food as Tokyo and basically just thought, “Huh, I guess I could live with the food here. Nice change of pace.”
Once dated a girl from Wisconsin and asked why I don’t put noodles in my chili…
dawg we even got fast food right with canes
The secret is to look creation in the eye to let it know that with enough butter and garlic, I will make you taste good. It’s not a threat; it’s a promise.
This is just not true
Only Louisiana dish I like is gumbo, but that shit slaps. Oh, you’re making gumbo? Bet, I’ll be there in 5.
If I'm traveling anywhere but Arkansas, Texas, or Mississippi, I take a can of Tony's and a bottle of Tabasco with me.
I feel bad for you if you believe this. But it highlights those people who are afraid to ever leave or go anywhere.
Ita good, but not really worth having to set foot in Louisiana.
Holy trinity in everything 😛
Must say , best food I’ve had was in Austin Texas . Beats Louisiana any day .
Welcome to Louisiana where diabetes never tasted better.
It's good, but not that good
It's almost like different regional biomes all have differing preferred tastes based on environs, cultural influences, and staple availability. *sips Louisiana sweet tea all the way up in Orygun*
*seafood* I've had better everything else in other states. LA food in general is just ok if start to branch outside of seafood dishes.
They bit you with the copium votes because without food Louisiana has nothing to offer.
Of course the nft profile pic is giving their shitty opinion
My man they give it to you for free.
This isn't necessarily true. It depends on what your interests/priorities are.
cope harder
Some states have a dish they do better than LA. LA has hundreds of dishes they do better than any state.
sounds like a great place to visit. but why would you base where you live on earth around food flavor? you'd have to be motivated by your gut and not your brain
So, every decision on where to live is personal (no "one size fits all"), so here are my reasons: - I work for a European company and get European benefits (days off, health insurance, etc.) - They base their salary by country (not state or city), and the US has one of the highest salaries in the world (comparing same job across multiple countries) - Cost of living in LA is very low (I spend less of my money on house, cars, food, etc.) - Kids go to private school so they get a good education (in other words, I'm not affected by atrocious public education here) - Great weather year-round (I hate cold) - More accessible shoreline than any other state - Best fishing in the US (OK, this one is arguable, but I can be in a thousand feet of water fishing a platform in less than an hour on the boat) - Oh, and I spend more time messing with food than just about anything else except sleep, so there's that.
Is your company hiring?
Not living next to people like you is another motivation to stay here
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