You may be from Louisiana if...


You start an angel food cake recipe with a roux. 

Watching "WILD KINGDOM" inspires you to write a cook book. 

You think the former head of the United Nations is Boudreaux-Boudreaux Guillory. 

You think a lobster is a crawfish on steroids. 

You think boudin, hogshead cheese, and a Bud is a bland diet. 

You think Ground Hog Day and the "La Boucherie "Festival are the same holiday. 

You take a bite of five-alarm chili and reach for the Tabasco. 

Fred's Lounge in Mamou means more to you than the Grand Ole Opry. 

You have an *envie* for something instead of a craving. 

You use a "#3" washtub to cover your lawn mower or your outboard motor. 

You use two or more pirogues to cover your tomatoes to protect them from the late frost. 

You use a gill net to play tennis, badminton, or volleyball. 

The horsepower of your outboard motor is greater than that of your car motor. 

You pass up a trip abroad to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge. 

Your favorite TV talk show host is "Okra Winfree ." 

Your school teaches the four basic food groups as: 
1) Boiled seafood 
2) Broiled seafood 
3) Fried seafood 
4) Beer 

You are asked to name the holy trinity and your reply 
is "onions, celery, bell pepper." 

You are asked to name the "Fab Four" and you respond, 
"Paul Prudhomme, John Folse, Justin Wilson, and Tony Chacherie ." 

You let your black coffee cool, and find that it has gelled. 

You describe a link of boudin and cracklins as "breakfast." 

Every once in a while, you have waterfront property. 

Your mama announces each morning, "Well, I've got 
the rice cooking ...what will we have for dinner?" 

None of your potential vacation destinations are north 
of the old Mississippi River Bridge (US 190). 

You refer to Louisiana winters as! "Gumbo Weather." 

You get a disappointing look from your wife and 
describe it as, "She passed me a pair of eyes." 

You think of gravy as a beverage. 

You greet your long lost friend at the Lafayette 
Regional Airport with "AAAAAAAYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE." 

You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host 
says, "Don't eat the dead ones," and you know what he means. 

You learned Bourre the hard way: Holding yourself upright in your crib. 

You don't know the real names of your friends, only their nicknames. 

You give up Tabasco for Lent 

Your burial plot is six feet over rather than six feet under. 

You worry about a deceased family member returning in spring floods. 

You're not afraid when someone wants to " ax you something " . 

You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday. 

You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras throws. 

You leave a parade with footprints on your hands. 

You believe that purple, green, and gold look good 
together -- you will even eat things those colors. 

Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled. 

You know what a nutria is but you still pick it to 
represent your baseball team. 

You like your rice and your politics dirty.