(07-19-2021 05:02 PM)k2tigers Wrote:  

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(07-19-2021 11:50 AM)UOFMGLENN Wrote:  Agreed, I like the food in Memphis but hell I visit New Orleans several times a year just to go eat there.

yep.

Yep. I have lived in both cities. New Orleans is better.

There are many fine restaurants in New Orleans. The Creole cooking of New Orleans is the distinctive native cuisine. It differs from the Cajun cooking of French Louisana (south and west of the swamp). I tend to avoid Cajun food in New Orleans and Creole food in French Louisana.

In New Orleans, Creole has always meant a melange of styles in an attempt to find the finest or best dishes. The food like the people is a mix of French, Spanish, Native American, and African. Cajun is down home cooking. Hearty but mainly it reflects it Acadian French roots.

Those are distinctive styles that are attributed to Louisiana. Cajun of course is pure gator coon ass, but there were Creole up and down the Mississippi Delta.

The thing about Memphis cooking that is distinctive to this city is our slow cooked pork style dry rub. It seems this is more appetizing to a Saturday football crowd than ettoufee (creole or cajun) or jambalaya (creole of french, west african, spanish influence and a bit reminiscent of paella). I believe a tailgate with any of these dishes might cause you to miss the opening kick-off!

Totally agree with you if it's a possible tailgate situation. But if there's a one or two night stay, NO is my easily my favorite. There is no shame for Memphis to be #2 on this list. I'm more pissed that Nashville is now rising on these social media polls because of their "eclectic" places, bars and new raunts downtown.

Yeah, Nashville rises on these polls just on the sheer volume of tourist or maybe their visitors bureau pays to appear there. I've been in and out of Nashville most of my life including having lived there and never found anything special about the food. Every chain restaurant you could think of but no signature dishes, not really known for any food until something called "Nashville Hot Chicken" started being sold in a KFC commercial five or six years ago.