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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 2208221" data-attributes="member: 1316">I thought of a few more cultural tidbits for you.The police in New Orleans have a reputation for being among the most corrupt in the country. I'm not saying they're all bad, but the stories I've heard... By the way, Louisiana is also reknowned for its corrupt politicians. Former Governor Edwin Edwards is in jail. A number people in the administration of the previous Mayor of New Orleans (Marc Morial) were also arrested or fired for corruption.If I were running a campaign in New Orleans, I would almost definitely involve the (already mentioned by someone else) grave of voodoo queen Marie Laveau in some way.Try to find some songs by Benny Grunch and the Bunch.The Saints never win. We have a song about it:Oh when the SaintsWin the Super BowlOh when the SaintsWin the Super BowlOh how I wantTo still be livin'When the SaintsWin the Super Bowl.I don't know where you guys got that "marching in" stuff.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Red beans and rice is only served on Monday. Here's why. Monday was traditionally laundry day. (However, I have been able to find out why Monday was traditionally laundry day.) Before modern plumbing, this was a lot of work. Red beans and rice is easy to cook and doesn't require much attention, so one can set it cooking while doing the laundry. Even now, red beans and rice is the Monday special at most restaurants (particularly diners or Cajun or seafood restaurants; probably not at, e.g., Italian restaurants, but I've seen quite a few places serve it that I wouldn't have expected), and many of them don't serve it any other day of the week.Popeye's chicken.Lucky Dogs.Dr. Morgus. I don't think I'm up to the task of explaining Dr. Morgus to you, but you should Google it.Monkey hill in the Audubon Zoo. It's a sort of cultural icon. It used to be basically just a hill next to a stream. Now they've added playground equipment and stuff to it.Roman candy. As far as I know, it's only sold in New Orleans. The guy drives around in a white horse-drawn cart, selling candy that's sort of like hard taffy. There's also a stationary one in the zoo (still a cart, just with no horse). It's 75 cents each and available in chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry. (You can find pictures on Google.)There are a lot of weird people. Once, a friend and I were downtown, and this guy kept following us, saying, "I'm sorry," every so often. We never figured out what he was apologizing for. He followed us for about 5 minutes until we got back to our car.Louisiana is a red state, and I don't mean politically; I mean Coke. After RiteAid bought the Louisiana chain K&B, they got special permission from Pepsi to ignore their exclusive contract in Louisiana, because most people here won't buy Pepsi. We never call it "pop" and rarely call it "soda". Some people say "soft drinks", but for most around here it's "Coke" -- even if it's Sprite or *shudder* Pepsi -- or "cold drinks" -- even when they aren't cold.If you'd like to throw in a fancy restaurant somewhere, I'd use Gallatoire's, Arno's, or Commander's Palace (where Paul Prudhomme and Emeril used to work).Read A Confederacy of Dunces. There's a statue of the main character on Canal Street.You may have noticed that a lot of the roads here are terrible. We like to say that the reason there are so few "Speed Limit" signs posted is that you can't drive too fast without messing up your car.This one's probably not useful, but a boat hit the Riverwalk mall a few years back.</blockquote>

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