19 Words and Expressions You Should Learn Before Traveling to Louisiana

Do you want your po’boy “dressed?” Have you ever attended a “fais-do-do?” Has anyone ever put any “gris gris” on ya? Hope not! Next time you’re in Louisiana, you’re going to want to “pass a good time” — and you can’t do that sitting there with a furrowed brow and a dictionary. Here’s all the Louisiana slang you need to know before traveling to the Bayou State. Laissez les bon temps rouler! 1. “Pinch the tail and suck the head.”A tawdry-sounding phrase, but it’s actually how you eat crawfish. Once the head of the crawfish is separated from the tail you pinch the bottom — loosening up the meat to eat it — and then you suck deliciously seasoned juices from the crawfish head.Crawfish can be enjoyed across the state each spring, but there’s no place better than the Crawfish Capital of the World, Breaux Bridge (that first word is pronounced bro), about 10 miles northeast of Lafayette. For three days at the beginning of May, its crawfish festival has everything from crawfish races to zydeco m...