Thats the whole idea behind Cajun cooking. They say they will eat anything that don't eat them first and with enough tomatoes and spices you can make most anything taste good.
You know Cajun is "COOL" and has been for the past 20 years, but let me tell you, I'm 50 years old and it wasn't always like that. When I was a kid growing up we were looked down on, refereed to as dumb cajuns. My dad was a teenager when they moved out of the swamps
to civilization and enrolled in school. He was beaten, as were most cajun kids, for speaking french in school. That's all they knew how to speak and the authorities were hell bent on "Americanizing" them even though they were here in Louisiana before the Americans. I am the first in my family since the 1700's when the acadians were expelled from Acadia (present day Nova Scotia), that can not speak fluent french. The eating anything that doesn't eat us first deal,
stems from living a subsistence style life for hundreds of years. You either kill it and eat it or go to bed hungry. They took what ever they killed and used what ever seasoning they had and cooked it. Most Cajun recipes evolved over centuries. Cajuns are survivors.
When the economy gets bad and you can't buy a job, Cajuns will hit the swamps and thrive. So as descendents of generations of cajuns,
we love to cook. We love to cook for others, and we love sharing recipes or anything else for that matter. Another misconception is all cajun food is spicy hot. That's not true. If you like it spicy fine, if not cut back on the spices. It doesn't make it any less Cajun. I have
enjoyed sharing a few recipes for those who asked. My wife and mom have plenty of recipes so if your interested just ask.
My daddy told me the same story about them not being allowed to speak french in school. When I was little and stayed at my grandmas house alot, I spoke a little french and had a heavy accent. We moved to Texas when I was in first grade and it didn't take long to forget what little french I knew and for my accent to change.
Lol, one of the things that my mother remembers me saying when I was little...... she told me to get my dog out of the house because he stunk and I told her "No momma he don't tink. I done took him a bat."
