You Know You’re From Louisiana

I got one of those for­wards from a friend (Brandt Noel) this morn­ing. He nev­er for­wards me stuff, so I decid­ed to take a look at it. I liked it!

In abridged ver­sion, here’s a Louisiana primer:

1. There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Louisiana.
2. Squir­rels will eat any­thing. And folks in Louisiana will eat squir­rel.
3. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
4. It is not a shop­ping cart, it is a bug­gy.
5. “Fix­in­to” is one word.
6. There ain’t no such thing as “lunch.” There’s “din­ner” and then
   there’s “sup­per.”!
7. Sweet tea is appro­pri­ate for all meals, and you start drink­ing it when you’re two.
8. “Jeet?” is actu­al­ly a phrase mean­ing “Did you eat?”

And you know you’re from LA (Louisiana, that is) if:

1. You mea­sure dis­tance in min­utes.
2. You use “fix” as a verb. Exam­ple: I am fix­ing to go to the store.
3. You “axe” peo­ple ques­tions. Exam­ple: I got some­thin’ to axe you ’bout.
4. You only own four spices: salt, Tony’s, Tabas­co and ketchup.
5. The local papers cov­er nation­al and inter­na­tion­al news on one page
   and six pages for local gos­sip and sports.
6. You think that the first day deer sea­son is a nation­al hol­i­day.
7. You find 100 degrees Fahren­heit “a lit­tle warm.”
8. You know all four sea­sons: almost sum­mer, sum­mer, still sum­mer,
   and Christ­mas.
9. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gum­bo weath­er.
10. A car­bon­at­ed soft drink isn’t a soda, cola, or pop…it’s a Coke, regard­less of brand or fla­vor. Exam­ple: “What kin­na coke you want?”
11. Fried Cat­fish is the oth­er white meat.
12. You laugh out loud when you vis­it friends from oth­er states and they com­plain about the humid­i­ty.