Mardi Gras Tartan?

[Tartan Hiker]

Todd,
You just answered a question I've had for quite some time. As a former resident of the Pelican state, grad of LSU, and married to a gal from New Orleans, I thought that there must be a tartan related to LA but had never found one. Why didn't I just ask Matt?

Looks like there will be a new kilt at the top of the wish list!

By the way, I started celebrating this morning with a big plate of Boudin and scrambled eggs. Lunch will be chicken and sausage gumbo, and Dinner will be fried catfish po-boys! If only I had a six-pack Dixie longnecks!

Bill in NC, but still missing the south Louisiana lifestyle.

[GMan]

Well the one I am wearing is the Hunting Stewart. It is green and a little bit of yellow, my shirt has a purple tint to it.

[auld argonian]

Well, I was going to suggest that Nova Scotia might be appropriate because that's where the cajuns/acadians started out but it seems like the British were the ones who forced them out so it might certainly be a beaucoup faux pas to call any attention to that unfortunate event.

...however...think about this...if all those girls get beads by lifting their shirts, what is a kilted person going to do to get some beads...?

Best

AA

[Jerry]

Well, I was going to suggest that Nova Scotia might be appropriate because that's where the cajuns/acadians started out but it seems like the British were the ones who forced them out so it might certainly be a beaucoup faux pas to call any attention to that unfortunate event.

...however...think about this...if all those girls get beads by lifting their shirts, what is a kilted person going to do to get some beads...?

Best

AA

Just wearing the kilt ought to be worth some beads, that is if the ladies are giving them out.

[macwilkin]

Well, I was going to suggest that Nova Scotia might be appropriate because that's where the cajuns/acadians started out but it seems like the British were the ones who forced them out so it might certainly be a beaucoup faux pas to call any attention to that unfortunate event.


AA

Not at all, AA -- Cajuns do remember Le Grand Derengement of 1755, but they don't tend to dwell on it. My wife and MIL both wore the Nova Scotia tartan before I bought Louisiana tartan sashes for them this Christmas.

In fact, Page's grandmother used to tease me about being Scottish and "my ancestors kicking out her ancestors", but I gently reminded her that my ancestors were kicked out of Scotland and then kicked out of America (for being Loyalists).

Remember that much of the Scots immigration to NS started after 1755; it was mostly transplanted New Englanders that were responsible for the deportation.

btw, my MIL's madien name, Melancon, is orginally believed to be Scottish or Northern English in origin; the Melansons intermarried with the Acadians after the Scottish colony of Sir William Alexander was transferred to the French.

Todd,
You just answered a question I've had for quite some time. As a former resident of the Pelican state, grad of LSU, and married to a gal from New Orleans, I thought that there must be a tartan related to LA but had never found one. Why didn't I just ask Matt?

Looks like there will be a new kilt at the top of the wish list!

By the way, I started celebrating this morning with a big plate of Boudin and scrambled eggs. Lunch will be chicken and sausage gumbo, and Dinner will be fried catfish po-boys! If only I had a six-pack Dixie longnecks!

Bill in NC, but still missing the south Louisiana lifestyle.

Bill: the St. Andrew's Society of Baton Rouge sells the La. tartan:

http://www.csbr.org/latartan1.htm

Mmmm...Boudin Blanc. Yer making me hungry, Cher! :mrgreen:

May have to stop by the liquor store and pick up some Blackened Vodoo Lager from Dixie -- or Abita!

Cheers,

Todd