Welcome to the Mardi Gras episode of Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas . This one is going to be all dedicated to our traditional style Mardi Gras A little bit of history , a little bit of stories about some of the times we've had , and we just hope to entertain you a little bit today . But first we're going to start out with our ground sponsor , which is how the Cajun Lady Accent . The sponsor , which is how the Cajun Lady Accent . Go to howthecajunladyaccentcom and look at all the full lineup of seasonings and meal kit mixes and spaghetti and chili and cracker seasonings . Oh , she got it all .
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Speaker 2Thank you , how okay ? Um so mardi gras for us is quite different than very much , so the the new orleans style mardi gras , which is mainly like grand parades and very ornate floats . And there's kings and there's queens , and there's courts , and there's these big balls . And I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that at all .
Speaker 1That's fun . That's fun Beautiful .
Speaker 2Yes . And the amount of work and time and just money that goes into all that is quite something , I can . See the dollars , the dollar bucks Just yes , I agree into all that is quite quite something . See the dollars , the dollar books just yes , I agree . But one day , you know , I would like to go to one of the big balls , I think that would be fun .
Speaker 1I got invited to one this year , oh , and it was the day before our morning girl run so I could not commit . That would be a big no yeah , I don't , we know there's no way I could have been back for the early morning that we're gonna have on sunday . True , you know so in church point we do um the kuri of the mardi gras yes , and that's the run of the run of the mardi gras .
Speaker 2Yes , so basically it's so there really is no basic i'll'll never forget Like we my husband and I , before we had kids we were on the road doing abstracting and stuff and we were in Ohio and there's Nathan at the courthouse trying to explain a chicken run to someone over there and they were like how could you ? Oh , he loves it though , Sarah . Like you know how he feels about Mardi Gras , I know , and he wants to , just like he wants everybody to know about this because it's so unique . You know , like they were like you chase a chicken , you get all dressed up and chase a chicken , and people come out and watch this and he's like , yeah , this is yes , and it's my favorite day of the entire year Is how he , you know so unique , you know , oh , it is no , it is no secret .
Speaker 2I love , I love the shirt you have on . I mean , where'd you get that ? It is ?
Speaker 1a Cajun , mama's original .
Speaker 2Original .
Speaker 1Okay , who made that ? Cajunmamascom ? We designed this , okay , you did that's . Who made that ?
Speaker 2we designed this , you did that's your design .
Speaker 1We got Louisiana , we got the king cake , the beads and the chicken , and that is what sets our Mardi Gras shirt apart because the chicken .
Speaker 2I mean , I often think like I feel bad for the chickens because they don't know what's coming . All these drunk men chasing after them and then shoop , they get them , but they have . I feel like they know that that was their purpose in life and like they died for a good . They don't all die , let me just say that . But if they did , they going in a gumbo . We not wasting that , yeah , no no chicken , no are going to waste ?
Speaker 1no no , no , no , no . You know it's wild . It's so wild I don't even know where to start with this .
Speaker 2All right , so we can't , let's start at the beginning okay , so I know a little bit of history about it , okay , um , but I I did print off some facts because I don't want anybody saying I got this wrong . This is too important , yeah , important to get wrong . Okay . So the origins this comes back all the way back in France . Okay , from the 17th and 18th centuries . They began this tradition , um , when the French settlers came to louisiana . Okay , they were poor , super poor , yeah , so they'd go around basically like begging for people to give them food or some type of ingredient to make food or whatever . And so it sort of became like a well , I'll give you a chicken or I'll give you a pig or whatever for entertainment , but you have to give me something in return . And so they would dress up in these ornate costumes with big pointy hats and like colorful things to mock the rich and wealthy at the time .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 2So like the jester hats , like the big capuchins , that's to mock the royalty of the day Like a big princess hat .
Speaker 2Yes , you know or a crown like a big , you know elongated type of crown , and so they would just be silly and like , perform basically for the homeowner , and you had to get permission to go onto the homeowner's property . That still actually happens today . They get permission , they get permission . They get permission . Yes , so it was like okay , you can have the chicken if you can catch it , so off we go , and then it just grew and grew and grew , and then you get together and you make a big gumbo that feeds the community . You know , that's how I understand how it went .
Speaker 1That's exactly how I understand it too . Okay , we have our Mardi Gras . Okay , which is ? It's this , it's a little more organized . It's not just going from house to house .
Speaker 2No , we know ahead of time , like , what houses they're going to stop at and they still do the ceremonial part of like asking for permission to enter the home onto the homeowner's property , which we got asked to welcome the children . I'm so excited about that , so we have on . It's going to be on Sunday , march 2nd , right , is it the second ? Yeah , march 2nd is the big . More is the adult run , but the day before that , on saturday , march 1st , they have a children's chicken run and we got asked to basically like welcome them onto the property . So , like we will go to talk with the homeowner or whatever the property owner and of course I can , can they come on ? Yes , and then we will just basically like signal them to come . The music starts , the little accordions and kajam music , and then the kids take off running . It's gonna be so fun I can't wait .
Speaker 1We're gonna have to get somebody to to get that film . That , yeah , I agree because that it's just so , it's just so traditional , it's so full of culture and I feel like I've been saying that a lot . So full of culture because we are , we are , we are very seasoned , you know , and um , and just to be able to , to share that with y'all is something , is something special . So I hope you like this episode I hope so .
Speaker 2I hope it intrigues you and we will have lots of mardi Gras content coming .
Speaker 1Yes .
Speaker 2Okay , this so historically ? Okay , historically , I talked a little bit about like how long ago this was , but it's basically like a way for communities to get together and celebrate before Lent . You know , like Mardi Gras is the last big hoorah before Lent starts and where we are trying to be more pious . We try to , you know , give up something . We don't . I mean I don't drink during Lent , I don't , you know .
Speaker 1I try not to overindulge you know , during Lent , right , that's what Fat Tuesday is all about .
Speaker 2Yeah , you know yeah .
Speaker 1Exactly the opposite , so you can get it all out before Lent , that's what I was always told .
Speaker 2It's true , that's what that is . It's like a big party .
Speaker 1before you know , you behave so to speak , behave , and what is the word that is escaping me right now ? But it's like you have to purge . I'm saying that like you know , like when you sacrifice food , and you have to like you know , fast , fast , fast . That's it . That's the word I'm looking for . Yeah .
Speaker 2Fast , um , and so , yeah , the emphasis is on food and fun and celebration , and then there's always music involved . Um , there's the symbolism . Okay , the symbolism we talked a little bit about the Capuchon hats and stuff . Okay , the costumes we talked a little bit about the capuchon hats and stuff . Okay , the costumes are inspired by medieval European festivals that include exaggerated comical designs . The goal was to hide identities that's why you have the mask and to mock authority . So we were right on that . Let's see , you will also see not just the Mardi gras , the runners in their costumes . You will see a lot of people on horses for mardi gras . Um , they , I'm I'm guessing that just stems from the fact that , like , that was the a lot of the main mode of transportation back in the day , like people just rode horseback on , you know places .
Speaker 1Maybe they was like the main entourage you know like , because the capitan's ride the horses and so maybe they symbolize like the copy stands entourage I don't know yeah I don't know why they ride horses , but I guess maybe they all were if they had a horse .
Speaker 2They was right yeah , that's just how they choose to celebrate and participate . I should say , instead of running and doing the chases , chicken chases , um it , yeah , it just says that . You know they . They went on from house to house on horseback , foot or trailers , singing and dancing to beg for ingredients for a communal gumbo . That's how I understood it too . Um , a captain , that's the captain , the main one . He , he's kind of the leader , um , and he is very distinct because you will find him on a horse with a grand cape . They wear capes and we have a few captains , but then there's one that's like the main one main one yes , um , and our run .
Speaker 2Anyway . It's a family thing , like it stems from Mr Elton Richard , so it stays in the Richard family the lineage . The lineage is there , correct , so that's interesting . You know , that is interesting , yes .
Speaker 1While we're still talking about more and more , let's segue on over to Acadia , into Acadia , parish Cajun Harvest Country , acad . Let's segue on over to Acadia , parish Cajun Harvest Country , acadiatourismcom , because I get it confused with Acadiana , but it's Acadiatourismcom .
Speaker 2For Acadia Parish .
Speaker 1We're well into holiday season that folks outside of Louisiana don't experience much .
Speaker 2Mardi Gras .
Speaker 1Yes , beginning on January 6th , three Kings Day or the Epiphany , going through Fat Tuesday , mardi Gras , it's a season filled with king cakes , parties , balls , parades , other special events before the Catholic observance of Lent . Yes , see a 40-day period of reflection . You know , there's so many things that you can do in Acadia Parish for Mardi Gras . There's the Rain Mardi Gras Parade . There is a courier in Mermontal Cove , there's one , there's couriers so many different places . I know Iota has one Mamou there's just , you can find this .
Speaker 2Eunice is not Acadia . Huh , Is it St Landry ? No , they're .
Speaker 1St Landry Okay , but they got one too . And here here right here in church , point which is our favorite and I know we're biased , but you all find a better one I mean it's a big party , it's a big .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's big people come out for church , point now I love when we go through , um , like we have a float . We always have a float . We've been having one . Uh , oh man , nathan and I were dating since 2007 ish , I think we've had a float of some sort . It's grown and , grown and grown and now we in the front baby , we can see everything , all the action now . So , um , I love to see people . They will hold up signs like I am from canada , I can't . Or I am from wyoming , like they come from all over for our mardi gras it's crazy , and I'll throw them all the beads too .
Speaker 1So you know , put you a sign , yeah so maybe it's a little late for you to come if you are from like a faraway place , true , but y'all put y'all mark it on the calendar for next year . Cause it is something to see , all right , uh , but you can also go to Acadia tourismcom slash Mardi Gras for a full list and of King cake locations , parades and events . Y'all don't miss out on that . Yes , Um , yeah , okay , mardi Gras .
Speaker 2So do you have any special like what do you like to do for Mardi Gras ? Because yours is a little different than mine .
Speaker 1Right , you get on that big party float and , honestly , I used to ride in the parade and we would never first . So how do you keep getting that place ? You know how ?
Speaker 2This right here . We paid dearly for it . It talks . We paid dearly for that spot .
Speaker 1But let me tell you .
Speaker 2I don't think we ever want to go back , even if I wasn't first . I think now that because we used to I mean , you know how long the float lineup is , how- many floats .
Speaker 1How many floats y'all had last year , you think ?
Speaker 2It's got to be 50 or 60 .
Speaker 1I've been in the parade where I want to say there was like 80 floats .
Speaker 2It's possible , like I think they have tried to cut back , oh yeah , because it had gotten so big . And then you have people that like from you , you know I won't get into that , but um , see it being up front and not having to , by the time I would walk to the front of the the run , the chicken chasing part was over , and so being able to be toward the front and seeing all that go down , oh , I just don't ever want to go back to where I can't see it Any time I've ever been on a ride , I was like in college , whatever .
Speaker 1We were so far Like we were in the back . Even if you was kind of like number 12 , which might have been the closest we ever got to the front , correct , we still were so far behind the run . We never see the run , and they do have people that walk the whole time , the whole thing .
Speaker 2They will just walk until they get to the front and just , you know , like , oh , that is not for my rickety ass , girl , uh-uh . I often think like , and I'll see them walking and I'm like , those shoes got to be killing . You boo Ooh , that's a lot of walking , mm-hmm , but they do it . And you boo Ooh , that's a lot of walking , but they do it , they do , and they'll put their little backpacks on with their beer inside .
Speaker 1They're ready to go .
Speaker 2Yeah , they have fun too but not me , Listen .
Speaker 1I have climbed under so many barbed wire fences .
Speaker 2Trying to catch up with my float .
Speaker 1I'm just like , that is just not for me , the walking thing . Okay , I might as well stay my butt on the float and just be quiet . So what do you do then ? So now what I do is we my mama lives on the , on the , on the route , on the route , on the parade route , and so we get together and we have a floor like we put out a floor so we don't make ruts in her yard . We have like a floor that we put out a floor so we don't make ruts in her yard . We have like a floor that we have built specially for marty girl . We cook a big gumbo and we have a bunch of family members is so big we had to get a porta potty for the past couple of years so we wouldn't drag mud
in and out my mama's house . So we got , I mean , we have it's pretty , it's pretty official y'all have .
Speaker 2Yeah , a big g can , and like a stage , I call it a stage , it's a stage yeah , because I mean the first couple we was putting some big rugs .
Speaker 1Oh , rugs . And then Big Red , and they came up with a floor that we put it together like a puzzle and we do it every year and it's with like sand in it so we don't fall on it and like the kids , can you know it's nice and then we have the big kramer , uh , tent that we usually put up in the front and um and we just enjoy , y'all hang out , y'all cook we people watch see , I would love to do that , but I do get to do that too , I do get , I do get to
Speaker 2watch people too and and see a lot of things . You know people just cut loose and um , but like I don't want you to think like it's all just drunkery and foolery . I mean it is foolery but it's . I've never personally seen anybody get like so out of hand or be inappropriate . I mean , yeah , they cut up and stuff , but it it's not . I don't , that's not my kind of mardi gras no to get , so just tore up and no but um the family friendly aspect of it , like going to the parade and catching things .
Speaker 2That's awesome .
Speaker 1If you want your kids to experience , though , like the whole traditional running stuff , the the day before the saturday before catch the children's parade the children's chicken chase , that it's yeah it's great I , I , yes , for for kids , especially riding in the parade , definitely the the the adults , that's for the adults is the next day , the next day , yeah , you know um like get a babysitter and enjoy yourself , right , uh , responsibly .
Speaker 2But yeah , you know it , it is something to see , it's it's so , so full of history , um and and it's like you see people you haven't seen in a while and you catch up like it's almost like a big reunion , you know it is , it's fun yeah , it's fun fun .
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Speaker 2We appreciate y'all so much . All right , what else shall we say about our Mardi Gras ? What about king cakes ? Did we talk about this ?
Speaker 1yet we did not talk about king cakes .
Speaker 2I mean , we clearly love king cakes . It's a passion of ours . It's a passion .
Speaker 1We love get it Uh-huh . So we recently made a boudin king cake .
Speaker 2We did and it was quite delectable . Oh , my goodness , I wish I had a piece right now . I kind of wish I did too . So , um , let's tell people what is a king cake . Okay , because you may be like an original thing yes , so it's . I mean it's a pastry like um , it usually has cinnamon
throughout , like a cinnamony taste . Um , it can be filled with like cream cheese , but like a bavarian filling chocolate , raspberry , strawberry , blueberry , any , yeah , I even saw pecan , yeah , pecan praline .
Speaker 2Um , I saw one recently that was like a salted caramel cheesecake , like they getting wild with these flavors , but I'm here for it , I'm here for it too . Usually it's in the shape of a circle or an oval to mock , mimic a crown . Okay , um , you will find sometimes a little baby in it . That's the symbolized baby jesus in the king cake . And if you are so lucky , lucky , lucky , to get the baby in your piece , you gotta buy the next king cake . That's the tradition . I didn't write it , but you can't break it so listen .
Speaker 1If you catch something hard in your king cake , be careful don't break your teeth , don't ?
Speaker 2yeah ?
Speaker 1and I think most places like they don't do that , no more , they'll put it in the middle or off to the side ?
Speaker 2I don't think there's any that it used to be , though , like hidden in there , and as a kid you just wanted to . You just wanted to have your piece , to have the baby . That's because you wasn't paying for it . Well , and you didn't know , like I didn't know about the tradition of having a buy , because , because I was just a kid , yeah , but now I'm like If you cut that piece , If you see the baby , you go .
Speaker 1You see them legs sticking out , you're like hell . No , I'm going on another end .
Speaker 2Or just put your knife closer off to the side , do you ?
Speaker 1want that last piece of king cake . Bad enough that you know it has the baby in it . Don't be playing king cakes in an office type setting , okay , because , like , if you get that baby , they will come after you to get that next king cake .
Speaker 2You have to , yeah , and if you , it better not be more than a few days later , or they coming at you like where's the king cake ? You ?
Speaker 1got the baby , didn't you ? Didn't you get the baby , then you , it's almost like somebody's got a little camera watching you too , because they're they're like for real about it . Do y'all , y'all , say something in the comments if y'all uh place is like that , because like it's always fun and games until you see that baby in the king cake and you're like damn it , yeah , but it's all right , because then ? You can try all kind of different types of king cakes .
Speaker 2That's what they do at Nathan's office . He's brought me little slivers of all kinds because they'll bring in one from all over the place . And I'm like because , see , he told me I've tried twins burgers and sweets one and I don't remember trying . He's like , yes , I brought you a piece , and I'm like , well , I need another one .
Speaker 1I don't remember , I don't remember , I don't remember .
Speaker 2I need to try it again .
Speaker 1Speaking of king cakes . Yeah , let's talk about Acadia , parish Cajun Harvest Country .
Speaker 2Why do they get Cajun Harvest Country ?
Speaker 1Okay , let's try that again . Rewind Acadia , parish Cajun Harvest Country there you go Acadiatourismcom slash .
Speaker 2Mardi Gras will get you a full listing of all the king cake locations in Acadia Parish . This is just the tip of the iceberg of where you can find king cakes at around here . But specifically in Acadia Parish we have Keg Bar in Crowley , donut Queen . I'm going to tell you all the Crowley places . How about that ? Yeah , do that . Keg Bar , donut Queen , rice City , kitchenoodox , sprinkles of Joy and the Vanilla Bean . Those are all in Crowley .
Speaker 2Just in Crowley , okay . Then we have Gautreaux's Donuts in Rain . Y'all know how we feel about Gautreaux's . We have the Snack Shack in Iota . If you want a full list of this , because I know y'all not gonna remember that's okay , go to acadiatourismcom . Slash mardi gras , and you could even might find it at your grocery store around here there might be some other grocery store .
Speaker 1Let me tell you which one . You need to make it out to votros many more in church point . If you in church point go to votros , they got gotros king cake votros got gotros y'all understand , and that's what you , that's what you , you can , that's what you're gonna do get , get your king cake yes all right , um , and any of the other events you want to check out acadiatourismcom thank y'all for being a sponsor of the kid talk coffee talk with the cajun mamas .
Speaker 2Thank y'all very much . I can't talk either today , I guess all right .
Speaker 1So I going to ask you this question . It might be a little bit risky . Oh Lord , what's your favorite king cake ?
Speaker 2Oh , you knew it was about to come out of my mouth . That's so hard . That's like asking your favorite boudin . You don't ask somebody what's their favorite boudin .
Speaker 1Yeah , because you're going to hurt feelings . You're going to hurt feelings .
Speaker 2My favorite is Keller's Bakery in Lafayette . It's so light , it's so , just such a delight , so delightful . Yes , and see , there's different kinds of king cake . We have a donut-style king cake and that's like Gautreaux's or Mesh's in Lafayette . Or you have more of a , a pastry style which is twins or um is crystal wedding cakes .
Speaker 2What a pastry you know what I've never tried , that one I think I have before , but it's been a long time . Everybody raves over , and gambino's too , gambino's , I think that's all more traditional style . Um , and then keller's , of course , is the traditional style , and it's just delightful .
Speaker 1Once you have a bite , you want to have another one .
Speaker 2And that's why the King Cake , the knife , stays in the box .
Speaker 1Always the King Cake knife stays in the box , and you know Gautreaux's . I don't know if they still do this , but they used to have a King Cake knife .
Speaker 2They were in the box with it In the place . Yeah Well , I saw at the Postmaster General store . He has little king cake knives .
Speaker 1Some little wooden ones .
Speaker 2Like they were so cute , I almost picked up one .
Speaker 1That's another reason you got to go over there , yeah , so that's my personal favorite .
Speaker 2And the flavor it's a tie , y'all . It's a tie between the blueberry cream cheese and the Amaretto walnut . Really , I know it's not your favorite , but I love that one , the blueberry cream cheese , is my favorite , but the Amaretto walnut one .
Speaker 1I mean , I don't .
Speaker 2You don't discriminate If I don't specifically remember .
Speaker 1Okay , you know no , but I do know the blueberry cream cheese is where it's at for me . But honestly , what do you think ? I just think that I really want a king cake right now .
Speaker 2I wish I had a little sampler right now .
Speaker 1Now let me tell you my stomach's growling Twins , though Twins has stolen my heart . This year I have yet to get one .
Speaker 2I need to get over there before it's over . Because time's running out .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's delicious , it's not dry . I don't like me a dry king cake . See , that's the problem .
Speaker 2And if you listen , this is not to knock it is sort of to knock A supermarket king cake . If that's all you've ever had and you're like I really don't like king cakes , don't go off of that . You can't go off of that . Like I'm telling you , a walmart king cake is not A true representation of what we can offer you . I call that the cardboard king cake . Yes . And that's not worth the calories I'm not going to eat that and put all that in my body for it to not taste good . Now you know .
Speaker 1I do wish we had , like you know , those ones from New Orleans that everybody's always raving over . Yes , I do wish that I could have a little taste of those , you know , like uh Randazzo's , my my sister always gets a Randazzo's Randazzo's lovers .
Speaker 2they are faithful to their Randazzo's .
Speaker 1Oh , and do not come with nothing else , because it will not touch Randazzo's , you know , and it won't . That's what , that's what they . And then there's another place in , uh , in , in what's it called ?
Speaker 2Dong Fong , dong Fong , I'm probably saying that so wrong . It's some like I can't even spell it , but it's supposed to have , like the .
Speaker 1There's people laughing at this right now .
Speaker 2Oh , absolutely , dong Fong I don't know , I don't know , but no , it , I've had it , I have had it . Yeah , me too you have yeah , I have had it . Yeah , me too you have yeah , and I thought it was good , don't get me wrong , but it don't touch calories , not in my book Mm-mm .
Speaker 1You know .
Speaker 2It was a little dry . I did like the frosting on top . It was kind of like lighter , changed my mind Fluffier , but I did not care for the dough as much . Mm-hmm . Changed my mind fluffier , but I did not care for the dough as much . You know what I'm saying . Almost forgot to read this . Um , this is sorry . I'm sorry I'm segwaying away from the king cake talk . Do you have anything else to say about the king cake talk ? No , okay , because I put a . I put a post up today asking people what is the hold on ? Let me read this . I can't wait to hear what is the hold on . Let me read this .
Speaker 2I can't wait to hear what is the best and or most crazy thing that you have ever caught at a Mardi Gras parade .
Speaker 1Oh , this is good you have been sitting on this gold line . I almost forgot .
Speaker 2I almost forgot . Okay , all right , y'all ready . Thong underwear Number one Okay , that Thong underwear number one Okay . That's pretty typical , but okay . Yes , pregnancy test . Ah , covid test , covid test . Yes , restaurant menus who's just throwing away their restaurant menus ? A toilet plunger .
Speaker 1Oh , that reminds me Somebody got something last year and I forgot what it was . You remember somebody had something . It was somebody on the baby float , the kid's float , and maybe it was a toilet plunger .
Speaker 2Oh , one of our kids had it .
Speaker 1It was A little one , it was a little plunger and it was for one of the kids and Charlie wanted to give it to his pop because he was a plumber . Yes , it was a plunger . Okay , sorry , no , you're good .
Speaker 2Real chicken feet dyed pink .
Speaker 1Now , that is very interesting . I have not heard of this before Real . Chicken feet dyed pink . Now that is very interesting . I have not heard of this before Real chicken feet .
Speaker 2Miniature loaves of sunbeam bread . Many years ago , little bread loaf , that was so cute , would you ? Eat a bread loaf off of a If it was in the packaging yes , would I eat a moon pie .
Speaker 2Yeah , same thing , same thing . Yeah , same thing , same thing . Okay , same thing . Let's see , nothing compares to a Muse's shoe . Catching a shoe was definitely a Mardi Gras bucket list for me . So I think the Muse I hope I'm saying this right Muse's M-U-S-E-S . That's a big one in New Orleans and they have to deck my . It wasn't that one , maybe it was , I don't know . My brother-in-law rode in one of these parades and he had to bedazzle . You take a shoe like a high heel stiletto or something and you bedazzle it and you decorate it and that's what they throw . And if you catch a shoe at the muses parade , you somebody .
Speaker 1Really , really , the one you catch a shoe at the muses parade you somebody , really , really .
Speaker 2The one he wrote in it wasn't a shoe , it was like a uh , like a uh , hole the cup , like they do in mass , the big , what is that called ? A goblet type . Yes , they decorate those and he had made one that was a mini mouse , pink , bedazzled , and he didn't even throw it , he gave it to Brynn . He kept it and gave it to Brynn , but , yeah , or maybe I'm thinking of that wrong , maybe he caught it and he gave it to Brynn . I don't know , uncle Dustin , you might have to correct me on this , but anyway , if you have been to a fancy Mardi Gras parade like that and you caught something special , leave it in the comments please , for us . I want to know . Okay , let's see . Um , a lot of them said they remember catching glass beads like , um , where , like , if you and they said you have to , you have to catch it because if it hits the ground it they'll break , and like with a real clasp on it , like fancy oh god , glass Like fancy .
Speaker 1Oh God , that gives me Glass beads . Yeah , that's what I want to do .
Speaker 2Yes . A can of Spam , packs of ramen noodles Okay , I've seen ramen a lot .
Yeah , a gold coconut from the Zulu parade . That sounds like something special too . Is that sort of similar to like for the St Paddy's Day parades ? They throw heads of cabbage . Can you imagine a coconut being hurled at you ? Oh , that would .
Speaker 1Hurt your coconut .
Speaker 2Honky in the coconut , A full can of Heineken . It hit me in the head . Then I drank it to kill the pain . Yeah .
Speaker 1Jell-O shots .
Speaker 2Plenty of Jell-O shots .
Speaker 1Make sure you know who those jello shots are coming from .
Speaker 2Now that I wouldn't do .
Speaker 1Yeah , only off of your float .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , yeah , if I knew the people . But let's see Ladies' croissants with a telephone number . I did not call the number , oh , uh-uh , uh-uh . Let's see Women's croissants the size of a VW .
Speaker 1Yeah , oh , lots . See women's croissants the size of a vw . Yeah , oh , lots of thongs , man . What's up wrong with people ? Yeah , well , because you know they have them .
Speaker 2The mortar girl thongs . That's not real underwear , yeah slingshot them , you know yeah , slingshotting them a roll of toilet paper , I would keep that . I probably would keep that a hot dog , an entire pack of marshmallows . That was probably somebody on the float brought that to snack on and you just got it . Why would you ?
Speaker 1snack on a pack of marshmallows , and it's not like you was making s'mores either , I mean they might have had a barbecue pit , like we do making some s'mores on the body . I don't know , no , I'm oh , maybe I don't know .
Speaker 2No , I'm just kidding . I mean , I don't understand that Uh-oh , a cell phone . They were having them a good old time , oh Lord . And then , when you sober up , you're like where's my phone ?
Speaker 1Where's ?
Speaker 2my phone , can you imagine ?
Speaker 1One of my kids got like a water cup , a nice one , like it was not meant to be thrown probably . And I was like where did you get this ? And they were like we got that from the mordi girl parade . Somebody threw that . I came unglued . Well , they didn't know no better . I was like what you are drinking out of this water cup ? They were drinking out of it .
Speaker 2I just thought they caught it and was like look mama drinking out of it .
Speaker 1I just thought they caught it and was like look , mama Drinking out of it like the next day . And I was like , where'd you get that ? And they told me from the Mardi Gras parade . I like to fill out . It turns out that it was like in a box . Oh , a brand new one New , brand new yeah .
Speaker 2But for a while there I had a baby heart attack cause you know if that really did fly from the float , it probably had liquor in it of some sort that was the least of my worries .
Speaker 1I don't know whose mouth juice had been on that .
Speaker 2Lord help . A bottle of wine , lacy panties and moon pies . Moon pies , moon pies . Let's see anything else . Pregnancy test . I wonder if these have been used . Are they new ?
Speaker 1oh , new ones because you might need them after morning girl , oh lord baby shoes .
Speaker 2Oh my , a tide pod . Uh , who's buying Tide Pods to throw out what ?
Speaker 1a rich person Throwing money away . Oh , just throwing money away A bag of rice .
Speaker 2Oh , that would be nice . That would be nice . Let's see COVID tests . Yeah , yeah , a shoe and a few other things I'm not going to mention . That is quite a time had at the mardi gras parade oh well , we hope we um brought you some entertainment .
Speaker 1Some entertainment and just a little bit about how different our mardi gras is from your . What you see , um ?
Speaker 2you know what I didn't mention about the , about our traditional runs , they it's . You know , when you go to a parade it might last an hour or two because it's the , just the parade . Ours is an all-day thing . Like we start at like eight in the morning and you go , you run , ride through the countryside and you make stops at people's houses where they do the chicken chasing , and then in the afternoon it makes a big circle and you pass through town for the actual parade . So that's another way , it's different , like it's not just a parade .
Speaker 1Yeah . You know it's an all day thing , yeah , and then you come through town as the parade , so it's all one you want to float , but you're riding through the back country and people line up in the country too .
Speaker 2They will line up on the side of the road and catch their beads there . They don't wait for the parade in town . There's people all over .
Speaker 1Oh yeah , it's a party , it's a party , it's a party .
Speaker 2But yeah , over , oh yeah , it's a party , it's a party , it's a party . So , um , but yeah , we hope we educated you a little bit on it and now you can say you know what a career .
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