Na, when you get here you're gonna hear a lot of weird terms like "Ya sha" and that just means yeah dear.

You'll never taste two gumbos alike. Your momma's got a recipe and dats the best.. There's green gumbo and brown. Both are good, entirely different. There's brown jambalaya and red, depending on what parts your family's from, they're both good. Completely different.

Yeah, we got dat.

When you go home, you're gonna be like, am I eating cardboard? WTF is this I've been eating my whole life. Either that or your stomach will finally start feeling human again, either way you gonna miss dat food.

Some people berl their seafood (mostly older people and those on the bayou). And if you not used to our food and spices, don't ya go over doing it because lots of tourists wind up sick from the rich sauces and fried foods. We used to it and we don't eat dat everyday. Seafood boils are a way of life and they may look weird, but give em a try. They don't taste like your bland seafood

Especially when fixin a gumbo or going to a boil

You gotta wait til you get out in the parkin' lot, sha. Otherwise, pay the extra money and drive thru a daq shop. But this way is much cheaper.

Even in winter, it can get into the upper 80s (or the low 30s) so bring a lot of options and plan to layer. Sometimes you start out at 40 degrees and you're up to 76 at lunch

The joys of finding these on the levee

it really happens like this

Nah we not like dem others. EVERYBODY calls everybody baby, sweets, honey, and child here (even if you an adult). It's not sexual or flirtin, but if they don't do it, you probably offended dem or some shit like that. We also talk in elevators and on the streets before parades, by the top floor or the end of the parade you following each other on IG and planning to make dem your baby's nanny and paran.

And even in the middle of winter, you may need a pirogue. Not as often, but it happens

But it's still a party, no matter what. We make de best of it.

if you bring your car here, never drive over a pot hole. Neighbors usually throw appliances like stoves or dishwashers in the deep ones to warm people, but sometimes they just get deep and we just get used to them.

Dey do in some places, no lie.

And don't you think seafood is cheap like it used to be. Now crawfish like $4 a pound and most adults can tuck into 5-6 pounds on average.

Yeah sha, they got drive thru and 24/7 locations.