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Cajuns in NicaraguaSubmitted by thunderdial on 17 July, 2008 - 13:12.
I noticed as of late there are a number of members who claim to be Cajun, including myself. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about the history of Cajuns in Nicaragua and if so, what can you share? Also, is there anything going on nowadays, groups, clubs, cockfights etc. for the few Cajuns who do live here? I would love to check out a service en espanol. Seria muy interesante. ( categories: )
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Interesting fact:
Interesting fact: Nicaraguenses pronounce Cajun "Kayjoons"
Living in Jennings Louisiana
I am living in the heart of Acadia right now, not no stinking New Orleans type Cajiana, but where you can see signs that offer home made shrimp and catfish saugage. You know what I am talking about. I am a Seattle Expat living in Louisiana and talk about a cultural difference. I actually ate something yesterday called a Cracklin. I am starting to really consider myself a world traveller.
The Güegüense is the prototype of Nicaraguan resistance...
against foreign invaders and cultural imposition.
It is the allegory of a people. Because of the Gueguense spirit, I do not suffer politically correct fools lightly, or those who want to impose their alien traditions on me and my country. The gueguense spirit causes me to speak out against land thieves, old codgers with nica girls, and on and on.
http://www.vianica.com/go/specials/21-el-gueguense-macho-raton.html
Without understanding the gueguense you will never understand Nicaragua.
when living in the land of the gueguense tread lightly because When the gueguenses get pissed off they fight back.
The gueguense girls hack their gringo viejos with machetes, a gueguense father may hack off a gringo's arm for impregnating their little girl, and a whole town of gueguenses may one day get tired and go on the warpath against the foreigners in Granada and San Juan Del Sur.
Ojo al Cristo! Watch out!
AS LONG AS JAMES CARVILLE....
does not come here, and no cajun establishes a church of cajun liberalism, and tell us that we do not use enough tabasco sauce in our cooking then MAYBE we could allow them to prepare a cochon de lait.
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/cochon-de-lait.html
To the cochones, or maricas in the board, cochon in french means pig, the origin of our nica slang for those individuals.
What is the origin of GueGuense?
just curious...care to share?
El Güegüense
El Güegüense, whose name derives from the Nahuatl term güegüe, a powerful elder figure in pre-Hispanic Nicaragua. The Güegüense defends himself against charges levelled against him by the colonial authorities through a series of clever verbal manoeuvres. Rather than directly confronting or challenging an authority, he attempts to appear consistently co-operative and compliant, while utilizing subterfuge to undermine Spanish authority.
http://www.diriamba.info/video_2.htm
http://www.diriamba.info/English/elgueguense.htm
Reportaje del programa Aqui Nicaragua de Carlos F. Chamorro, sobre El Güegüense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8pw82fXsg (in Spanish)
in other words
he's not to be trusted
One must
earn that trust. Like the colonial authorities in the story, if one tries to double-cross him, he will defend himself.
Don't share, he'll happily
Don't share, he'll happily pay you a premium if you simply persist past his poverty plea!!!
I'll have to bring down the
I'll have to bring down the turducken next time I come down, cher...
LOUISIANA SWAMP SCUM COONASS BAR TRASH
I am flattered and excited that you found it useful to plagiarize my post, as I am also curious about Cajuns, not just in Nicaragua, but in general. I love Cajun food.
Since you are Cajun and claim there are other members here who are Cajun, maybe someone knows of an authentic Cajun restaurant I could try in Nicaragua. I recently attended a Cajun festival where I was able to sample gator tail and crawfish. I particularly love the names of some of their foods, like "bar trash" and "dirty rice". But their hot sauces are the bomb, my favorite is called LOUISIANA SWAMP SCUM (http://www.mossybayou.com/), First Place Award in the 2002 Fiery Food challenge.
Although I have looked, I haven't had any luck finding any good Jewish restaurants, or any Evangelical ones either, maybe a Cajun member on NL knows of a a good Cajun one. And since I don't keep Kosher, there's no problem eating pork or shellfish.
The only other thing I know about Cajuns is what I read recently on GROWING UP CAJUN (http://www.garylavergne.com/cajuns.htm). The author alludes to the fact that calling a Cajun "coonass" these days is an acceptable reference, that it won't piss them off. It would definitely piss me off if someone called me "coonass". I wouldn't mind so much "fineass", but "coonass", I don't know...He also says among other things:
"Since English corrupted French and French corrupted English, ...Cajuns are illiterate in two languages." Interesting read to be sure.
By the way thunder, love that pic. The term Thunderass comes to mind.
Coonass, or Coon Ass, is not
Coonass, or Coon Ass, is not a derogatory term for Cajuns, nor has it ever been. We wear it like a badge of honor - RCA (Registered Coon Ass) for kinfolk that live a little closer to the bayou than makes us comfortable (i.e south of I-10). There is such a term, but we keep it to ourselves. The only times it has been brought to my attention as offensive was when a) someone didn't know what it meant, heard "ass" and assumed it was offensive and therefore had no right to be offended, and b) when a white person who had no idea what a coonass was, thought I was talking about black people, and was scared the big black dude at the end of the bar might have heard me.
Cajun anthropology is often written by Yankee/Socialist/Communists who have no idea what they are talking about - and if you don't believe me, just ask me. One day, Mr. Wilm might decide to go to Evangeline and write a book on how the white man has tread on our souls - and if he did, we would probably kill and eat him and sell his camera on Ebay.
We don't usually cast ourselves as being SpeCiaL, IMPORTANT, or blur the lines between religion and race like jews do (especially the half-hearted variety who don't keep kosher), and the post was not so much a plagiarism, but more of a deflation of the special dimension/atmosphere that the jews seem to live in, to annoy the rest of us with.
And there is no Cajun food in Nicaragua unless I am there.
That's what I said
I for one am glad you clarified your position: Jews and the "special dimension/atmosphere that the jews seem to live in" annoys you and others. But please, just a question if I may:
How is innocently asking other Jewish NL members (or those who may know) about potential Jewish activity/history in Nicaragua blurring the line between religion and race? Do I not have the right to want to "connect" with my fellow chosen people to the exclusion of goyish cajuns who hate Jews? Maybe once I find them all you can get us to lie face down in a mass grave you'll dig in your backyard and then hold some sort of hippocratic humanitarian candlelight vigil.
Hippocratic? Where do you
Hippocratic? Where do you jews go to school? I had been told, during the early, dark days of the underground Christian railroad, that you people were availed to the best possible education! Eh hem, I am not a doctor, well, not a medical doctor.
Hah, that's simple; if you are allowed to congregate, you can make plans. If allowed to unabashedly organize, you'll take over the banks, media, and tailor shops. And then us, the few Cajun Nicaraguans, both of us, will join our hermanos Nicaraguense in slaving away our lives in the vast industries you'll create. I will confide that laughing at you for paying the 13th month is the only joy I take, but if allowed, you and your "fellow chosen people" will tear away that solemn pleasure too.
Brother, I didn't say hate. Freud could possibly better explain your complex, but I can assure you that Cajuns love everyone, especially if you're delicious and are enhanced by any one of our various sauces - you're overly sensitive. And I am the ultimate authority on what sensitive is, because you KILLED MY GOD.
Cajun's
I made Jambalaya last night, does that count? Spent a good bit of time in Lousiana & can cook Cajun/Creole. Have boiled tons of Crawfish, Lousiana Blue Crabs, & Gulf Shrimp. I have a jet cooker & some damn big boiling pots on stand-by.
And except when cookshow is
And except when cookshow is makin' it ;)