Mardi Gras
Cajun
Creole
Soul
Odds 'n Ends
100
These are the three colors of Mardi Gras.
What are purple, green and gold
100
Cajun food is known as this type of cuisine.
What is country
100
Creole food is known as this type of cuisine.
What is city
100

Soul food developed on what type of property.

What is on plantations.

100
The 'Holy Trinity' consists of these three vegetables.
What are celery, onion, and green pepper
200
This is the literal translation for Mardi Gras.
What is Fat Tuesday
200
This was the main cooking vessel for Cajuns.
What is a cast iron pot (suspended over an open fire)
200
True or false: Creole cuisine is elegant and includes multiple courses.
What is TRUE
200
This is a boiled and deep fried pig intestine
What is chitterlings (pronounced 'chitlins')
200
In addition to the Holy Trinity, both Cajun and Creole cuisine use this type of vegetable in their cooking
What is garlic.
300
This is the name of the dessert people make during Mardi Gras.
What is King Cake
300
The following are meats that Cajuns consumed.
What are alligator, frog, pork, crawfish, squirrel, nutria, etc.
300
The types of meat that that Creoles ate were.
What is oysters, crab, shrimp, crawfish, etc.
300
A popular soul food starch is.
What is cornbread or hushpuppies
300
This is the term for the waters of Louisiana.
What is bayou
400
This is the responsibility for the next year of the person who gets the piece of cake with the baby inside.
What is baking the King Cake
400

This is the reason Cajuns ended up in Louisiana.

What is they were forced to re-settle there after being kicked out of Acadia (in Nova Scotia).

400

Roux based stew originally made from wild boar, rabbit, duck, deer, turtle, or alligator with ground sassafras leaves.

What is gumbo?

400
This is the story behind how 'hushpuppies' got their name.
What is slaves would feed balls of deep-fried cornmeal to their dogs at night to keep them from barking (to avoid being beaten by the plantation owners).
400
This city holds the largest Mardi Gras celebration in the US
What is New Orleans.
500
The colors from Mardi Gras each represent this.
What is gold-power, purple-justice, green-faith
500
Cajun food tends to be spicier. The reasoning for this is.
What is that the meats they were eating were 'swampy' and needed to be covered up.
500

Translation of "Creole"

What is "Born in the New World".

500
This is the reason behind soul food including meats such as chitterlings, pig hooves, chicken gizzards, etc.
What is that was all the 'meat' that was leftover and considered waste from the plantation owners. It was easy to scrounge up.
500
This is the city that Mardi Gras first began.
What is Mobile, Alabama
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