39 Things a Cajun from Louisiana Should Know

If you’re from Acadiana, there are a few things you should know.

How What you ask?

Let’s dive in…

Things a Cajun should know

Growing up in Acadiana, we learn so many things without even realizing it.

Knowing how to clean crabs, jitterbug, and make a roux comes naturally.

Outside of Acadiana, no one would expect you to know how to do this because people there have no idea what it is all about.

Rather, the Cajuns of Acadiana expect you to know how these things work.

It got us thinking: What are the things Cajuns should know?

We asked you this question and as always you got some fantastic answers which we have listed below.

If we left something off the list that should be there, let us know!

Things a Cajun from Louisiana should know

1. How to make a roux

2. Clean crabs and shrimps properly

3. How to cook and peel crayfish

4. Never put tomatoes in gumbo

5. Potato salad goes in the gumbo

6. Just because you call them Nonc and Taunt doesn’t mean you’re blood related, but it doesn’t mean they’re any less family

7. How to make a campfire

8. Cooked okra should not be slimy

9. How to fill a sandbag

10. How to wash and dry a cast iron pot properly

11. How to make crayfish etouffe without cream of mushroom soup (or cream of any other food)

12. How to Cook a Gumbo or Stuffed Pounce

13. When you leave Louisiana, be prepared use your indicators

14. Speak and understand French

15. Meet the Cajun Trinity

16. The only beach is Holly Beach

17. How to make cornbread in a cast iron skillet

18. Remember to always mow the lawn before a hurricane

19. Do you know who actually made the potato salad, because you can’t eat just any potato salad.

20. Boudin is definitely a breakfast dish

21. How to catch lobsters with a landing net

22. How to navigate Lake Fausse Point, rain or shine, day or night

23. Know where the Rougarou is

24. That a 7-course meal is a six-pack of beer and a pound of boudin

25. How to pronounce Atchafalaya

26. How to catch a chicken

27. Visit your grandparents often

28. Cane syrup = the only syrup

29. How to manually crank an outboard motor with a rope

30. How to clean the caught fish

31. How to make a fishing line and bait it

32. That the state bird of Louisiana is a mosquito

33. Never order gumbo at a restaurant outside of Louisiana

34. How do you get to Grevinburg in the Basin to catch Sac-u-lait?

35. The new Iberia haircut

36. How to dance the Jitterbug, Two-Step and Waltz

37. How to play Booray

38. How to make meatballs and/or potato stew

39. The entire text of “The Back Door” by DL Menard