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Black men who dress up in very ornate, hand-beaded, sequined and feathered outfits to represent their street or gang during Mardi Gras Extra-large oval doughnut pastry dusted with colored candied sugar. A plastic baby doll is hidden inside the cake--the lucky person who gets the piece of cake with the doll inside (and doesn't break a tooth or swallow it in the process!) buys the next cake for the next party throughout the Mardi Gras season.
A Carnival organization's members
Something extra that you didn't pay for--thrown in to sweeten the deal--like a baker's dozen .(See mardigrasneworleans.com for more information.)
Let the good times roll
The day before Mardi Gras when King Rex and KIng Zulu arrive on the riverfront.
Buying groceries Fat Tuesday, the day before Lent....the day to celebrate before the traditional Catholic tradition of sacrificing and fasting during the 40 days of Lent.
Float riders & anyone dressed in costume
A suburb of New Orleans--between the Airport and New Orleans
Super-large, round, fat sandwich filled with salami-type meats, mozzarella cheese, pickles, and olive salad (I challenge you to eat all of it!)
"New Orleans"--It's faster that way!
Median or grassy area between the paved areas on a boulevard
· Small, nit-picky (It was a Spanish coin worth more than a nickel and less than a dime-- 6 1/4 cents to be precise) · Name of our only daily newspaper, the "Times Picayune" Small town north of New Orleans in Mississippi.
Flat-bottom canoe, perfect in the bayous. Miniature pirogues filled with food are available at New Orleans Cajun Treats.
Usually part of a "double"--a single row house in which all rooms on one side are connected by a long single hallway--you can open the front door and shoot a gun straight through the back door, without hitting a single wall...now I have no idea who has tried this, or even why this is the way one describes these houses!
Shaved ice (nearly powder) served with flavored syrups. Those of you in the north might throw 'em.....we eat 'em!
Houses behind the main building of large plantation homes where slaves used to live
Interesting street name .... one of the trickiest to pronounce - and spell!
Louisiana has Parishes not Counties, but this often refers to Chalmette, a suburb outside New Orleans. Trinkets such as beads, cups, and doubloons that are tossed from the floats to the crowds during Mardi Gras parades.
What everyone yells at parades to get throws from the maskers on the floats!
The twin bridges connecting the Northshore at Slidell with New Orleans across Lake Pontchartrain.
Area "upriver" from the French Quarter
French for "Old Quarter", this is a term used for the French Quarter including world-famous Bourbon Street.... experience it in any of our French Quarter Hotels.
A sketch or illustration of a person, place or thing
A form of witchcraft
You have to look east to see the "other" side of New Orleans, on the west bank of the Mississippi
Standard greeting--("Where yat?" is "Hello, how are you doing?")--a "yat" |
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