When you live in Louisiana, it’s hard not to learn some really important lessons. Here are 14 things that pretty much everyone in Louisiana can agree with.
- In general, if you can replace “-oh” with “-eaux”, you should.
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- Playtime is just as important as work.
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- When buying strawberries, you better not make the mistake of purchasing ones grown in California.
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- Same goes for tomatoes.
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- There’s only one thing the cane harvest means in South Louisiana…
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- When someone calls you cher, they don’t mean “her”.
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- It’s not the number of people who know who you are that makes you important—
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- When you order a sandwich dressed, you don’t mean with a bowtie.
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- What everyone else calls spicy, we call normal.
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- The farther away you are from Louisiana, the closer you feel to anyone else you might meet from Louisiana.
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- Smiles on the faces of your family makes it all worth it.
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- If you see one of these running around, in some places you can get paid to shoot it.
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- Contrary to what you may have heard, this is a delicious food.
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- If you don’t go messing with the gator, he’s not going to mess with you.
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What else would you add to this list? Let us know in the comments below!
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Especially when it comes to sports.
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If you’re not having fun, then you’re not doing it right. If you can do it in a costume—even better!
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Louisiana strawberries are the best.
All that sun really is good for something.
Thanksgiving is right around the corner.
facebook.com/cher
It’s the way you treat the people who know you best. In Louisiana, hometown heroes are everywhere.
It means lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, (and sometimes a pickle).
That’s why we bring hot sauce everywhere we go.
This is what I’m like when I find someone from Louisiana in the airport!
And you can make family wherever you are.
It’s their teeth that really get to me.
And yes, there’s an art to peeling them.
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