Shyzerblog

1. Not being able to bury the dead underground. Makes for some weird cemeteries.

2. Voodoo. Used to sell everything from cheap souvenirs to… well, mostly just cheap souvenirs.

3. Lots of equal-opportunity employers!

4. Frozen alcoholoic beverages 5. in cups bigger than my head 6. that can freely be carried out into the street, served by 7. bars that never close.

8. Fantastic live and local music acts, many of which feature heavily on the washboard.

9. Gator heads, $6.99 each. Actually I found this more creepy than great.

10. A relaxed attitude towards spelling. Also acceptable: N’awlins, N’awl’ns, Nahlins. You could learn something from this, Tronno!

11. The food. This is the tasting platter at a little place called Coop’s: fried chicken, jambalaya, red beans and rice, and uh… something else I can’t remember. Came with gumbo, too. Also, can we talk about muffalatas? I’d never heard of them before. A muffalata is a sandwich that is characterized by the olive salad that goes into it. Really only appealing if you love olives, which I do. At first bite you feel like you will never be able to eat enough. By the time you finish you wonder how you were ever tricked into putting it into your body. In this respect it is the southern equivalent of poutine.