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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Change of Plans

Being the dedicated employee that I am...I'm back on the road*. So, we just gonna do something different.




I assume y'all will have heard this classic rock....classic. Ballsy riffs and a squealing lead, hollered lyrics...classic. You should hear it on the gigantic speakers at Davis-Wade. It really comes to full throat on those arena sized speakers.

Of course, none of this changes the fact that the song is nonsense. These fella's were from New York or someplace. One of 'em might even have been a Canadian. It's painfully obvious that they looked at map and picked a town on the river...for the setting.

It's the tale of a Cajun lady that lives in Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg. I'm not saying a Coonass has never stopped for gas in Waterproof or Delta but, at that point on the river, you're a lot closer to Arkansas than you are Lafayette (Laugh-a-et). That's on the map. In spirit...you are in Arkansas.

She might as well have been living at the rest stop in Cleveland, Ohio where they sell Boudin.

"Boudin?"

"Yeah..it's a sausage they make in Louisiana."

"Yes ma'am," I couldn't help but chuckle, "I've ate a lot of Boudin. I just can't believe I'm seeing it here."

I was as polite about as I could be but, I immediately felt bad when I realized how disappointed she was that I had stole her thunder. I guarantee she had plenty more opportunities to wow the yokels round there. Besides, I was flabbergasted.

It weren't real Boudin anyway...you can't sell blood.

Anyway, I'll tell you what they do have in north Louisiana...the Robertsons.



A family of good'uns that have made a pile a money with handmade duck calls.

Sorry about the commercials..if the embeds even work...but, it's worth it. They play it up and clown but, between the lines you'll find the best representation of Southerners that's ever been on television.



If you live over here you've seen Duck Dynasty..or at least heard of it. I don't know how our British readers get American TV but, if you get the chance check it out.

Disclaimer for C...they hunt. They eat what they hunt though and don't eat meat if they didn't kill it themselves. I can't help but see that as a moral step up...they are off the grid and the meat Industry would go broke if it was up to these folks.




P.S. The Church of Christ is not a cult ninnies.

*Told y'all I'd go if it involved New Orleans.

28 comments:

  1. Ha ha love Uncle Si's philosophy work hard, nap hard. Googled them and had to smile, quite an entertaining bunch.

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    1. He's funny fella...you'll have to see the clip when he sits down for a tea party with the grand daughters and demands to have his nails painted too.

      They come from nothing and made millions.

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  2. Well, I guess it's not technically correct to say you can't sell blood but, the restrictions on it make it difficult as a commercial enterprise.

    As a result Boudin Blanc is what most people round here think of when they think of Boudin...there's still some old timey red stuff out there but, you'd probably have to buy it straight from a slaughter house.

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  3. Can you get Black Pudding (aka Blood Sausage) in the South? It's made from pig's blood, fried, and served as part of a big greasy breakfast. A mouthful with a bit of fried egg-yolk, bacon, a sliver of fried tomato and a chunk of fried bread, all washed down with a glug of milky tea is an experience not to be missed. You probably had some while you were over here. The further North you go in Britain, the earlier people die, and that may have something to do with their taste for Black Pudding (plus the cigarettes and the booze and the deep-fried Mars Bars, of course).

    There's a very up-market restaurant called Le Boudin Blanc in London. I presume they serve it.

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    1. I ate a lot of black pudding every morning for the couple of weeks I spent in Ireland. It was tasty...and entirely unlike the patty sausage we eat at breakfast.

      The further South you go over here the sooner you die...which figures.

      One thing we know...in order for a culture to call itself civilized, it must eat a hot breakfast.

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    2. should be NOT entirely unlike the patty sausage we have for breakfast.

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    3. "One thing we know...in order for a culture to call itself civilized, it must eat a hot breakfast"

      These are wise, wise words.

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  4. Hey, I like 'em! (And don't you go worrying about me and that whole hunting thing 'cause if they eat what they kill then I can absolutely deal with that! Without wanting to get into a big debate about the whole meat thing, but I don't have a problem with the notion that humans evolved as natural hunters and are carnivorous just like many other creatures, I just don't wish to eat it myself and can't bear the thought of cruelty and the *unnecessary* killing of animals...)

    Work hard, nap hard, indeed, and of course the bit that I can really go for is, "take a sip of tea". And why have ZZ Top suddenly come into my head?

    Hope you're finding time to take a sip of tea too.

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    1. I didn't figure you'd object...I just didn't want you to be startled if you pulled a clip and they were skining bull frogs....and dressin' a pig.

      Got to have the tea...got to.

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