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	cygnia 2011-03-08 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	These wanks serve to remind me that my husband is currently away on a business trip in northern Louisiana this week -- while trying to stick to his carb addicts diet. (Reply to this)

	kylenne 2011-03-08 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	$10 (and a buncha beads) says tingilya's a transplant. That's the kind of pretentious nerdrage only someone that just moved to a place can have about their local traditions. Zie sounds like every corn-fed midwestern hipster that just moved here five minutes ago lecturing the internet on "real New Yorkers". (Reply to this)(Thread)

	criticalcricket 2011-03-08 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	She's from Mississippi! Granted, Mississippi also celebrates Mardi Gras, as do many Southern states to a certain degree, but how can you get all holier than thou about New Orleans being the heart of Mardi Gras if you're not even from there? I grew up closer to New Orleans than she did, only an hour compared to her across state lines "couple of hours" away. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2011-03-08 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't know Cake Wrecks ever had wank. Which is fairly silly thing for me to think about any place with comments, but I never read them. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	beccastareyes 2011-03-08 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	This is not its first trip to a wank comm, but hell if I can remember what it was about, besides that the writer's husband stepped in and told people to stop hurting her feelings. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	emily_goddess 2011-03-08 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	So there's the Spaceship Earth wank. There was also some racewank that I can't find a link for. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kylenne 2011-03-09 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Cakewrecks has had a fair bit of unfunny. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2011-03-09 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Really I'm not surprised. And now that I think about it further, I do remember references to a Really Big Deal about a cake some people considered obscene. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	alexielnet 2011-03-09 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. The author tends to get a little pissy if people disagree with her and her husband will show up in the comments to defend her. I don't have any links because I've stopped reading the comments for the most part and I skip posts where she starts getting passive aggressive. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	spawn_of_kong 2011-03-08 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	All this is just making me hungry for King Cake. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bigbigtruck 2011-03-08 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	I have yet to encounter a King Cake that didn't taste like sugar soaked in almond extract ;_; (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	criticalcricket 2011-03-08 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	Almond extract? WTF. To me they've always been more like a dry cinnamon roll with basic sugar/water icing and sanding sugar. We usually get the cheap grocery store king cakes and the main flavors are cinnamon and nutmeg, unless they've been filled with gunky fillings. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tetradecimal 2011-03-08 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	The Jambalaya Police sounds way tastier than the Fandom Police. (Reply to this)

	darkecology 2011-03-08 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	This makes me crave my mom's king cake (which is really good!). (Reply to this)

queencallipygos
2011-03-09 12:31 am UTC (link)

On the one hand, I wouldn't dream of getting all militant about "only people from N'awlins know how to do jambalaya right", because I'm from New England and make jambalaya so good that it gives an expatriate friend of mine nostalgia flashbacks. (Interesting dude. Started in Loyola, then after a couple years dropped out and was making his living as a pool shark somewhere on Bourbon Street before packing that in and moving north.) Besides, that kind of "only [x] can do [y] properly" talk is just ass-y.

But on the other hand -- potatoes and radishes is instinctively making me recoil and think "do. not. want."

(Oh -- and Cake Wrecks is wrong about how the person who gets the baby in the King Cake has to host a party next year. They just have to host the next party that same year. King Cake parties are sort of a high-carb festive way of playing "Hot Potato.")

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	thebratqueen 2011-03-09 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	When I worked in an office in NOLA whoever got the baby had to buy the king cake for the office the next week. It was amusing to watch people taking molecule-thin slices of cake towards the end so they wouldn't get stuck with the baby. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

queencallipygos
2011-03-09 06:14 pm UTC (link)

Heh; you're reminding me how ten years ago one of the people I worked for was from New Orleans, and he brought in a King Cake once for fun and was very impressed that I knew what it was. After that he and I formed our own little "Corporate dining hall Cajun food early warning service" ("so, I tried the 'po-boys' they're offering today, and trust me, you don't want them." "Good to know -- how'd the jambalaya look?" "Oh, I got that too -- that's actually not bad.")

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	tehrin 2011-03-09 01:35 am UTC (link)
	tingilya is precious. (Reply to this)

	chienne 2011-03-09 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Isn't the utter tackiness of King Cakes kind of the point? (Reply to this)

	platedlizard 2011-03-09 05:05 am UTC (link)
	ronin001I'll give you this: if it was brought to my home as "Creole styled potatoes with sausage and chicken", this post probably wouldn't have existed. If however I'm being too strict in my homage to Jambalaya, by all means, I can go back to my Italian friends that have issue with my spaghetti recipe that uses japanese short grain rice instead of pasta... lolwat (Reply to this)(Thread)

	rosehiptea 2011-03-09 05:52 am UTC (link)
	I realize she's kidding at this point, but that was cracking me up too. It's a spaghetti recipe! Except it doesn't have spaghetti. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2011-03-09 05:56 am UTC (link)
	It's probably something more like risotto then. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2011-03-09 05:56 am UTC (link)
	I love how all the actual New Orleans people are pointing out that Jambalaya is basically a "Throw Everything Into The Pot" dish, so bitching about "purity" is silly. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kosaginolegion 2011-03-09 12:52 pm UTC (link)
	My thought, too. Which inevitably led to a memory of a certain stew in "Witches Abroad". Not a bad memory at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2011-03-09 02:12 pm UTC (link)
	I would pay good money to eat at the table of Erzulie Gogol. I don't care who/what/when is in there. (Reply to this)(Parent)

queencallipygos
2011-03-09 06:11 pm UTC (link)

However, serving it over potatoes instead of rice is still a bit unusual. Not culinary anathema, mind you, but still enough to make some people raise an eyebrow and go, "hmmm. Interesting choice."

But some people get really militant about this stuff. A guy I know who lived in New Orleans for years told me he loves the batch I make -- except for the fact that I don't always put shrimp in mine, because Jambalaya Must Always Have Shrimp In It.

I told him to stuff it.

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	visp 2011-03-11 05:04 am UTC (link)
	Something like, say, sushi, where the whole concept is based on exacting standards, purity of ingredients, precision of technique, etc. - that I can understand getting a little militant about because the whole point is that there is the Right Way To Do It. But something that seems to be all about improv and variation? The real question should be "does it taste good?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ninwhore 2011-03-09 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	That's good to know! One night we threw a punch of stuff in a wok with Italian sausage, rice, vegetables, and a few other things.. When I told my brother-in-law it was sorta jambalaya he started pointing out just how it WASN'T. Annoyed me all to hell but I didn't have any come backs at the time. But now I do! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

full_metal_ox
2011-03-15 11:53 pm UTC (link)

I'll have you know that I've personally ad-libbed Gumbo Fat Choy: Gumbo Z'Herbes using a medley of Asian greens. This was prompted partly by the happenstance contents of my refrigerator and partly by my fascination with the fact that at least two cultures arrived at the same New Year's tradition--making a point of eating green leafy vegetables--for the same reason, but from entirely unrelated directions. The Chinese word "choy" can mean either "wealth" or "green leafy vegetable" (cf. "bok choy"), creating an auspicious culinary pun; a number of Euro-American and African-American traditions also involve eating cabbage or collards to encourage prosperity, but the symbolism is prompted by the resemblance to green U.S. dollars. (Gumbo Z'Herbes, although more commonly associated with Lent, is sometimes eaten at New Year's.)

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	bubosquared 2011-03-09 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	Oh Jesus fuck, it's tingilya ~~get in the car~~! D: ... Sorry. Violent flashback to, er, a decade ago, there. I suppose it's good to know some people don't change. O_O reposted for extreme html fail augh (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bubosquared 2011-03-09 02:32 pm UTC (link)
	Also, dammit, I'm in domestic_snark, and I completely missed this because I was distracted by ... re-reading old wank. FAIL, self! (Then again, given the protagononist, probably for the best.) And now I really want jambalaya, woe! D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brennalarose 2011-03-09 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	God-damn. After that, I'm suddenly regretting giving up cloves for Lent. Oh, wait. I live in Virginia, ergo, it wasn't really Mardi Gras, so this isn't Ash Wednesday. WOOT! lights up (Reply to this)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2011-03-09 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	And yet, while researching Gumbo recipes, I discover that some of the earliest ones were in Virginia cookbooks. Which, after a similar leap of logic... would... mean... Fuck. stubs out smoke (Reply to this)(Parent)

	warrioreowyn 2011-03-12 12:32 am UTC (link)
	...cloves? I'm guessing you're not talking about cooking with them, as that probably wouldn't be very difficult since they're not that common in cooking. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ealusaid 2011-03-12 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	For a moment I thought she meant cooking (rather than cigarettes) and just thought, "Damn, the woman is dedicated to her spices." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2011-03-18 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	No, if I gave up those sorts of cloves for Lent, there would be blood. Spiced Cider and Pumpkin Spice Coffee out of season are the only things keeping me from going axe-crazy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	demonbean 2011-03-10 03:45 am UTC (link)
	See, here's the thing ... now it's 9:45 and I'm really hungry after reading all of that. Damnit. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ealusaid 2011-03-12 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	Me too, except I have so much stomach acid that barbecue sauce on a hamburger makes me queasy. No spice for me. :/ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amy_wolf 2011-05-28 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Now I want to get my friends a King Cake like the one in the sixth picture, just so they can open the box and see "THERE IS A BABY IN THE CAKE". I don't care how it tastes, it would be worth it just for that. (Reply to this)