Le food

@NankerPhelge no lol

@NankerPhelge USA southern cuisine

@sassycookie You said "Le food".

@NeuroticByNature Do they speak French in the Southern States? I thought they spoke more Spanish.

@NankerPhelge in Louisiana I think they have a weird mashed up lingo that derives from french.

@NankerPhelge At some point in history many french people for some reason were thrown out of Canada. They ended up in Louisiana.

@NeuroticByNature Oh yes, I forgot about Louisiana. Baton Rouge is there, that's French. How could I overlook that? Silly me. Lol :)

@NankerPhelge everyone forgets about it until marde gras.

@NeuroticByNature And then Paul Simon reminds us of that by singing about it. Lol :)
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC16jZZq2BI]

@NankerPhelge I've never heard this. Its interesting.

@NeuroticByNature I've got that album on CD. I thought "Take Me To The Mardi Gras" was a well-known one, it was a top 10 single and (as far as I know) it sold enough to get a Silver Disc. It had "Kodachrome" on the other side, apparently that was intended to be the A-side but it was denied airplay due to a radio ban on advertising in song lyrics, so it came out with the sides reversed and "Mardi Gras" got all the airplay. But of course, you are not old enough to have been around to hear it in 1973, are you? :)

@NankerPhelge Ive never heard mardi gras but Ive heard kodachrome many times on the radio. I like that one alot.

@NeuroticByNature I thought it was refused radio play for reasons I already mentioned. I'll have to look into it and find out when the rules changed. I've got the album myself, both sides of the single are on it.

@NankerPhelge Im in the US. I dont think most people like to follow rules about what they can play or listen to.

@NeuroticByNature They do have radio bans in the US on certain titles, I know they do. John Lennon did this one and it was banned in the US. Here in the UK it was denied a single release.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8N0xy3hjE]

@NankerPhelge Im certain they do. The US is all about marketing though so they dont mind free advertising as long as there are no copyright infringement. Even if there is an infringement Americans tend think along the lines of a quote that says it is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.

@NankerPhelge I can see why that song was banned. It wasnt the message so much as it was the language and what was happening socially here in the united states between the blacks and whites.

@NeuroticByNature That song isn't about black versus white though, is it? This video (shorter than the actual song) has Lennon explain the meaning of the song.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjEz441I4M]

@NankerPhelge no I do get what he was saying but thats not a word you use if youre not black.

@NeuroticByNature I don't like the n-word myself and I'm white, but I do know that John Lennon was using it as a figure of speech in that song. He always was a bit controversial, but I still don't think that was a good enough reason for that guy to shoot him dead.

@NankerPhelge that guy that shot him I think was crazy or maybe had drug issues or if you want to start with conspiracy theories you could.

@NeuroticByNature He planned it, I know he did.