Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
How Well Do These Cajun Mamas Really Know Each Other?
Two friends take a playful deep dive into their friendship while competing for Blue Plate Mayonnaise bragging rights on this laugh-out-loud episode. When Sara's sister Lainey dons her official bow tie and transforms into gameshow host extraordinaire, the Cajun Mamas find themselves facing the ultimate friendship test: how well do they really know each other?
The competition begins with seemingly simple questions about favorite restaurants and TV shows, quickly revealing both surprising connections and hilarious misunderstandings. "Friends or The Office?" becomes an unexpected challenge when Sara and Koa realize they've been overthinking their answers by trying to predict each other's responses.
As the game shifts to "who's more likely" questions, listeners get genuine insights into their friendship dynamic - including Sara's competitive nature that Koa admits "took some getting used to" and their different approaches to food and punctuality. The most revealing moment comes during a discussion of Sarah's favorite relaxation method, where both friends perfectly describe her ritual of watching true crime shows while cuddling with her "tickle head" - a comfort blanket with decorative trim that she's maintained versions of since childhood.
Things get particularly animated during the "silliest argument" segment, where Sara confesses to once conceptualizing an entire jarred roux business that Koa talked her down from: "I spent a million dollars in my mind that day!" Their gentle ribbing and inside jokes create an atmosphere that makes listeners feel like they're eavesdropping on a heart-warming coffee date between lifelong friends.
Throughout it all, the episode showcases Blue Plate Mayonnaise - a Louisiana tradition since 1927 - whose egg-yolk-only recipe creates the perfect tangy base for authentic Cajun cooking from potato salad to po'boys. The competition may have ended in a tie, but the real winner is anyone looking for a genuine, laughter-filled conversation about friendship, Louisiana food culture, and what your mayonnaise preferences reveal about your personality.
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How do you say mayonnaise, mayonnaise?
Speaker 2:Mayonnaise.
Speaker 1:Mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Mayonnaise, say mayo, yeah, mayonnaise, or mayo for short.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Grab a cup of coffee, settle in and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood and a little inspiration to brighten your day.
Speaker 1:All right, welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Today we got something special planned for y'all, as we do every week.
Speaker 3:But, sis, this is something we've never done before, never done this It'll be fun. Sure thing, lainey's back with us. Yes, y'all remember, this is Sarah's sister, lainey Tejeda. She's with us for a fun episode today. But before we get started on the fun, we want to, and she has her bow tie. Y'all see that bow tie. This is official business, it is.
Speaker 1:It's official, very official. Welcome to the Cajun Mama podcast game show. I'm your host, lainey Tejeda, and we will be asking newlywed type questions to these two friends about each other Wonderful.
Speaker 3:We're going to see how much we know each other. It's going to be so much fun.
Speaker 1:Huh, I don't know. Let's talk about Blue Plate first. Blue Plate is our sponsor this month for Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Thank you so much for sponsoring our podcast. This is a Louisiana tradition since 1927, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 3:That's right. Authentic Louisiana food starts with good mayonnaise, oh and donut. I know A nice BLT, oh yeah, simple sandwich. Or a po' boy dressed only in blue plate, dripping, dripping. Oh look, she's got a thing for the mayonnaise. How do?
Speaker 1:you say mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise.
Speaker 3:Mayonnaise.
Speaker 1:Mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaise. Yeah, I don't know Mayonnaise.
Speaker 2:Say mayo, yeah, mayonnaise, or mayo for short.
Speaker 1:So it's perfect for authentic Cajun cooking. Potato salad, po'boys, room a lot, oh, so good. They even have an amazing tortoise sauce. I brought their tortoise sauce to Easter and we fried fish and everybody's like what did you mix with your tortoise sauce?
Speaker 3:I'm like I didn't have to, it came out the bottle.
Speaker 1:It came out the bottle like that Good. You know like you have to mix your tortoise, yeah you got to make it. So y'all hit up blueplatecom.
Speaker 3:Blueplatemayocom friend.
Speaker 1:Blueplatemayocom, and y'all get yourselves some. There's all kinds of different products, yeah, so y'all check it out. And blueplatemayocom, that's the good stuff. That's the good stuff. All right, let's get to some more good stuff.
Speaker 3:Okay. So I got to say like I'm almost a little nervous because if I don't know the right answers, you're going to think I'm not your friend.
Speaker 1:No, because I don't know, I'm just thinking like things about you.
Speaker 3:I'm like I don't know if I know that it's going to be fine, it's going to be like we do it, it's for fun.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:Get started.
Speaker 1:All right. So this first question is about Sarah. So, Koa, you're going to answer the question and Sarah's going to answer the question about herself as well, right? And then we'll see if the answers match Match. Okay, here we go. We'll start off easy. What? Is Sarah's favorite TV tv show? She got a bunch. I know you don't even know how to answer that. Okay, I don't know what my favorite tv show is. Okay, I'm just gonna um, I'm gonna write one and we'll see I can think of about three right now. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 3:But okay, okay, ready, Ready, wait, do we do it at the same time? Yeah, reveal it, or me first. At the same time Okay, the office.
Speaker 1:Koa wrote friends, sarah wrote the office. Probably a pretty good tie, right? Yeah, I feel like if this question were about koa, what would what would your answer be? Because I think I know seinfeld, yeah, yeah, yeah, would it be seinfeld?
Speaker 3:yeah, probably because I don't watch much tv anymore these days. Yeah, but I have watched every episode, at least five or six. I definitely thought about that one, and I'm like I don't know what she's gonna.
Speaker 1:Which one would she write?
Speaker 3:yeah, it was going to be either Friends, the Office or Will Grace. Right, that was my favorite. What did you write, Lainey?
Speaker 1:None of them. The Office, the Office. You did Okay. Okay, all right. Next, all right, sarah, this question is about Koa. What is her biggest pet peeve?
Speaker 3:Oh, do I even know the answer to that?
Speaker 1:You don't know what your biggest pet peeve is. Oh, oh, I don't know. I got a list of about 90 of them, I know, but yeah, oh my God, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't know how to answer that either, so anything you say is probably going to be.
Speaker 1:Y'all want to pass? Yeah, I want, probably gonna. Y'all want to pass? Yeah, I want to pass on that one. All right, okay, sarah. What is koa's favorite restaurant to eat at?
Speaker 3:oh okay, um she's probably gonna put something that she don't like, like something stupid, healthy or something. But no, I didn't okay. Good, because if I meet now, no, we're cheating okay, ready. Oh, we're cheating. She said stop talking to each other ready okay dinos, oh, I should have known that dinos is my favorite place to eat out is your favorite place to eat out, sarah wrote zeus, your favorite place to eat out.
Speaker 1:Sarah wrote Zeus it is wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong. Okay, she likes Zeus, you keeping track of who's getting more points.
Speaker 3:Y'all are getting none, yeah we have none.
Speaker 1:It's 0-0. The score is tied.
Speaker 2:You trying to feel bad.
Speaker 1:No, no, dang it. Okay, zeus, I can't believe I put that these are going to be questions about who is more likely to. Oh, okay, so you guys are going to answer. It's just going to be either you or you.
Speaker 2:That's it. Okay, so we don't need to write this down necessarily. I like it.
Speaker 1:Okay, who is better at dancing Me?
Speaker 3:I don't agree with that. I don't agree. We both could dance.
Speaker 1:Oh, y'all got some moves.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, I mean I can keep a beat. I like to move it.
Speaker 1:We're going to see how good we are soon with that dance you are better dancing than me, because then I'm thinking about that time we did Miss the Weatherall and you was dropping it low, yeah, but you did good too.
Speaker 3:You was pregnant at the time, anyway, I still can't, though I don't have no excuses.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I guess we better go with Koa. All right, who's more likely to lose their keys? Sarah, oh, me for sure. And then cry about it and have a heart attack about it. Yes, who is always right? I feel like Koa, yeah I feel like koa's always right yeah I just have big ideas, but she knows that they're not going to get executed in the way like I try to take that idea and figure out how to actually execute it where it will work and happen yeah, where I spend a million dollars in my mind, you know so yeah, I'm gonna go with her.
Speaker 1:Who's more likely to win a food eating contest? Oh, oh god, I don't know. You could put down it, yeah, but like you, you know, like your, your stomach is ready for it, because you have to eat so much food with the diet you want I'm not trying to be ugly, no, it's true, like, because when you count, when you count macros, you got to eat so much food to get protein and she gets hungry fast because she's used to having her snacks in the middle of the day.
Speaker 1:You know I put down food but it's all the wrong things.
Speaker 3:And it's like one meal, Like you eat one big meal.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:And. I'm eating like big, big and big throughout the day. I don't know, we both are good, we're just going to say Big, big and big throughout the day. I don't know, we both heard it good, we're just going to say you can just say what kind of food would you have at this contest?
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't know. What kind of food could you put down I always think of.
Speaker 3:I mean food like a hot dog. A hot dog yeah. So you're down your gullet, yeah, gullet. Where does that come from the office? Okay, I knew there was a reference. I was missing there. Oh my God, okay yeah, but I personally hope I would not ever want to do some type of eating contest.
Speaker 1:No, thank you.
Speaker 3:It grosses me out.
Speaker 1:He grosses me out. Yeah, lainey couldn't be a part of it. She don't like to hear nobody eat. See, he grosses me out. Lainey couldn't be a part of it. She don't like to hear nobody eat.
Speaker 2:That is my biggest pet peeve. If.
Speaker 1:I have to hear somebody eat, or like crumple, a bag of chips, especially for all my high schoolers. If they putting their hand in the bag every time. I'm like, get a paper towel, get a paper towel and dump it out. You know, to you need to show them that little, uh, that little trick where you open up the back, the back of the bag of chips, like mama does straight out. Yeah, all right, y'all ready? Yep, okay, who's more likely to be late to an event?
Speaker 3:me, sarah, although I was late this morning, that's like the first time ever. But that's the first time ever. Yeah, no, it's me.
Speaker 1:Okay, who's the most competitive? Sarah, yeah, I am. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I am.
Speaker 3:It actually took me a while to kind of get used to that in our friendship. And I'm just like I don't know, and not that you try to make everything a competition, but you're just like, if you're doing it, I'm going to do it, and I'm going to do it more than you.
Speaker 1:Or I'm going to at least try to. Well, I've got to shoot for more, and then I end up getting about the same.
Speaker 3:But in your mind you're doing it.
Speaker 1:Like you set out.
Speaker 3:You're like this is happening, Something's got to happen it. It might not be exactly what I. That's a self-motivation thing.
Speaker 1:Because, I do the same thing with my coworkers and with you and with you at the gym. You know Like I used to always compare, but it wasn't to really compete, it was For yourself. Yeah, yeah, and I'm like, well, if she's going to do it, I'm doing it. She could do it, I could do it, that's how I know. Yeah, you know right. So it's nothing against you. It's just like we just do everything together. Now she already knows we about to go. Yeah, okay, who's more likely to cry during a sad movie? I'll cry for everything.
Speaker 1:Shit, yeah, I'll cry for any although butterfly kisses the other night and I bawled my eyes out at that dance recital Not when none of my kids was in that me neither. You're getting soft.
Speaker 3:I'm going to tell you I'm getting too soft, you're getting, I think, some of me is rubbing off on you, I think, so I don't know about that. She used to not like to feel her emotions no, she doesn't ever. And there's a couple times I've made her cry for a couple things and I'm, like you, getting soft.
Speaker 1:And if I do cry, it's like a win for her.
Speaker 3:She's like I know, I'm like, oh man, that was good.
Speaker 1:Who's more likely to try a new, unusual food? Oh, oh, she's, yes, her. You remember when you tried that swirly thing at the Japanese restaurant? Yeah, I wouldn't go near that thing, no.
Speaker 3:You did too. I just yeah, I don't mind, I like trying new weird food things.
Speaker 1:I'll do it, but not like her. What is the silliest argument you've ever had? I don't know. One time I wanted to make jar of rue and you told me that that was not a good idea.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Not just in general. She wanted to bottle it and sell it as Cajun Mama.
Speaker 1:Rue and you were going to make it. She told me that I was going to make it.
Speaker 3:She was like Lainy was behind me, like you, why?
Speaker 1:you? Why are you not doing this? Why are you not about it? Like I spent like I did. I spent a million dollars in my mind that day and I was just like man.
Speaker 3:There's so much other things that we could do and they have good jarred rue out there already yeah, and I'm like you gonna stand in your kitchen and make big thing, that's of jarroo. She's like no people's gonna do that for me and we're just gonna sell it. And I'm like and apparently it was me, it was me that was gonna do it, yeah I was just like, yeah, this is, this has been a great idea since 9 am and this is gonna work, but I mean
Speaker 2:I wouldn't really call.
Speaker 1:I mean, mean, obviously we didn't do that and I wasn't mad about it or nothing.
Speaker 2:I was just like come on.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Koa, you have any?
Speaker 3:I don't know. Sometimes she picks at me and I get too soft about it and I'm like, damn, that was mean why you used to. Okay, and I'll just be quiet about it, and then later she'll text me, I. And then later she'll text me, I'm sorry when I said you were boring, or something like that I did that the other night and I was just like I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I did that Because I could tell like she got. But you know, like we pick at each other and like she's a sister and I'm not trying to justify it, but like you and I, we are just we could be mean and so, like you're around me all the time, I'm gonna be mean to you and, and I think, maybe I, maybe I didn't have that growing up too, like being by myself.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I didn't have that kind of sibling relationship and so it's. But I mean, I know you enough now, but sometimes I'm, yeah, that hurt. I mean quiet.
Speaker 1:Okay, but you know Okay. Now we're going to go back to about one another.
Speaker 3:I hope y'all are finding this as riveting as we are.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I'm really having fun with this.
Speaker 3:Also more of like almost a you know how we did that episode where we were like frequently asked questions type of thing y'all just getting to know more about more about us our dynamic is a special one.
Speaker 1:I tell you, alright, I'm gonna try to get one that y'all can. I know it's not your fault not say something dumb like I don't know it's not your fault.
Speaker 3:We apparently just don't know our own selves enough.
Speaker 1:Because y'all are thinking about what the other person is going to write. Just write down your first answer. Okay, I did, and it was Zeus and it was definitely wrong. All right, ready, ready, cobo. What is Sarah's favorite color? Color black? What pink is the correct answer?
Speaker 3:pink does look great on you and I like when you wear pink, but I would not have picked that as your favorite color.
Speaker 1:Black ain't even a color that as your favorite color black ain't even a color you're you're. You're a complex soul pink and teal are our colors.
Speaker 3:That is true, pink and teal. Yes, we both love pink and teal.
Speaker 1:We do we were like what's your favorite color? Pink and teal, both of us, I missed them. You were like the black outline that's the port seraphine.
Speaker 3:No, that is not what I meant.
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking, man she, she wears a lot of black like yeah, because I'm a thick girl and that's what looked good on me I'm fluffy.
Speaker 3:Well, this is my zeus. Okay, this is, that was my zeus okay, okay, okay, okay, okay here I am picking on her though.
Speaker 1:Okay, koa, what is Sarah's favorite type of music? I'm sorry, I forgot to switch.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 1:Sarah's favorite type of music.
Speaker 3:Sarah's favorite type of music Rock.
Speaker 1:Yes, all right, I've got one Ding, lainey Ding, that's Koa. One Sarah, zero. Okay, let's see, sarah, what is Koa's favorite thing to do on a Friday night? Okay, friday night, okay.
Speaker 3:This is so lame of me, but Ready. What do I do every Friday night? Work out, yeah, work out.
Speaker 1:Friday night lights at Evolve Athletics yes, work out, good job, okay. So Lights at Evolve Athletics yes, good job, okay. So Sarah won, koa won Look at us getting points on the board. I'll tell you what. Okay, okay. What is Koa's favorite holiday?
Speaker 3:I need to change my answer. Christmas, christmas, all right, I put my birthday at first. I'm like, no, it's not really that's only one day.
Speaker 1:Christmas is a vibe and, yes, I do love Christmas. Okay, what is Sarah's favorite thing to do to relax? I can be very descriptive with this. I already know.
Speaker 2:I can be very descriptive with this.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna be very descriptive can I tell y'all my answer.
Speaker 2:Before y'all reveal, just let me know when y'all are ready.
Speaker 1:I feel like we're going to have to do some explaining we will, okay, hold on. Just say it out loud and stop writing a book.
Speaker 3:I'm almost done. You can't even read my writing, okay.
Speaker 1:You want to say yours first, I want to say mine first and I want to see if it matches. Watch murder shows and tickle on her tickle, is that right? Mm-hmm?
Speaker 3:Well, I just put what you did sit in bed or her recliner tickling on her tickle head watching true crime and what is your exact answer? Okay, you gotta know what you have to.
Speaker 1:Now tell everybody what a tickle head is oh, y'all even got me better than me, okay? So my daddy, whenever I was little, I had some a baby blanket and it has some rick rack on the around it and I just rub it, you know, and he would do this with it. And he had a sheet and he would rub it on his face like that and he would do that and he would call it a tickle head. So we call my little blanket as a tickle head. Well, I'm 38 years old and that tickle head is no longer, but my nanny would make me new ones and new ones, and new ones. And the last tickle head that somebody made me, you made it for me whenever I had raw.
Speaker 1:So I would have a nice presentable tickle head to bring to the hospital yep, because the rest was had holes and it was all.
Speaker 3:The rick rack was coming off the sides and everything. But that's how you like them. You like when the rick rack, when they start coming off.
Speaker 1:That's when they good and prime, you know. So I rub, I rub on a blanket, but I know that I ain't the only person that still does this. Okay, and we'll take it on a drive to Lafayette too, to make sure. Well, but I don't like to get all kind of germs over it, so I definitely make sure that I hand sanitize my hands Before you get to touch it Before I touch it but I don't bring it to lafayette all the time but long car trips, long car rides, though, for sure.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, long car rides. Yeah, I was a little haunt whenever I was gonna have to share a room with somebody and I was gonna have it, you know, like a hotel oh yeah, but then I was like ah, people do worse, uh, weirder stuffs, absolutely so. Anyway, there's the story of my tickle head. If you have some kind of bear or bunny or tickle, head blanket let us know in the comments.
Speaker 1:If you don't say anything, I know you lie. Okay, now this is going to be about each other, okay, so write down an answer for yourself and your co-worker. Okay. What's their favorite thing about their job? Okay, wait what? What is koa's favorite thing about her job and what's your favorite thing about your? Okay?
Speaker 3:I could be more like broad or specific, and I chose to go the specific route. Okay, what you got? Going thrifting, going thrifting. Yeah, we got it.
Speaker 1:All right, we each have three Ding ding, so let's do a bonus round. Okay, to wrap it it. All right, we each have three, so let's do a bonus round. Okay, to wrap it up, All right, okay, whoever gets this next one is the ultimate winner. The winner Of best friends, who they get to bring that fresh Jorah Mann ass home.
Speaker 3:Oh, and it belongs to you and it is actually mine, so I'm going to be fighting for it.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, which Hanson brother is the other's favorite? Okay?
Speaker 3:What if we both?
Speaker 1:got it.
Speaker 3:Easy, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yours is Zach too. We both were Zach lovers.
Speaker 3:yeah, what about my baby Taylor? I love him, but I mean growing up.
Speaker 1:Growing up. But if you want to know my favorite one, you know it's Zach. Yeah, okay, okay, man Still tired.
Speaker 3:Try for something else.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Look, I'm using all areas of this board. I know you just gotta be so, so efficient.
Speaker 1:Look, and I'm just like two answers.
Speaker 3:Hmm, I'm stumped hmm, you're stumped you ain't got no more questions.
Speaker 1:You ran out of questions I have more questions, but like none, that's none, that's going to be a tiebreaker.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:You know, because then I'm going to have to ask one of you, mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, I mean, we could call it a tie.
Speaker 1:We could call it a tie.
Speaker 3:But we know that who's not going to be happy about that she's not getting my mayonnaise.
Speaker 1:She is not getting my jar. A blue plate, it's coming home. A chance for the mayonnaise, oh well. Well, that was definitely fun. Thank you for putting so much time and effort into, yeah, doing this with us including the bow tie including the bow tie.
Speaker 1:I don't know if any of y'all know, but that is a cork bow tie okay um, thank you so much, laney, for joining us today and being our game show host, and thank you to blue plate mayonnaise for sponsoring the cajun mamas coffee. We'll talk with the cajun mamas podcast today. Blue plate is a louisiana tradition since 1927. Their mayonnaise is only egg yolks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, rich creamy taste, that's right, the perfect tanginess. But they got a spicy mayo. I haven't tried that spicy mayo yet. I can't wait to get it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, a tartar sauce that is to die for and we having fried fish soon with that tartar sauce, because it is good, it's so good.
Speaker 3:Watch, okay. Do you like to mix your ketchup in with your torti sauce? No, uh-uh, you can do that on a po' boy.
Speaker 1:You can mess around and do that on po' boy. But whenever we're dipping the fish, uh-uh Gotcha.
Speaker 3:All right.
Speaker 1:So let's think yes.
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Speaker 2:Thanks for joining us on Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. We hope you enjoyed your cup of coffee and our chat. Don't forget to subscribe and share with your friends Until next time.