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Posted on 9/21/11 at 11:47 pm to Gris Gris
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I love them. Tourists eat boiled and fried seafood, poboys, oysters rock, trout amandine etc... too, and so do I.
Yeah the rest of the people in this thread just want to act like a good food that tourists enjoy is terrible for the sake of being different. They're good though.
Posted on 9/21/11 at 11:52 pm to Tiger Authority
I love beignets and coffee. After 55 years, still like them!! 
Posted on 9/22/11 at 12:12 am to ksayetiger
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but still, it's fried batter
So is a donut but I think the 2 are completely different
You at least agree there right?
Posted on 9/22/11 at 12:12 am to sporttiger
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I love beignets and coffee. After 55 years, still like them!!
Yeah. That's because it's fricking awesome
Posted on 9/22/11 at 12:52 am to Skillet
as much as i love coffee when I'm getting beignets I'm either drinking hot chocolate or chocolate milk
and I don't care if their touristy or basic, they're great
and I don't care if their touristy or basic, they're great
Posted on 9/22/11 at 1:12 am to TexasTiger05
Yeah...I mean funnel cakes are fried batter and they're also awesome
I don't see why everyone pretends that it sucks because it's simple
Most good tasting foods ARE simple
I don't see why everyone pretends that it sucks because it's simple
Most good tasting foods ARE simple
Posted on 9/22/11 at 5:41 am to LSUbase13
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Bacon, eggs, pancakes/waffles, french toast, shrimp and grits, etc > beignets
filet, boiled crab, ribeye, gumbo > Bacon, eggs, pancakes/waffles, french toast, shrimp and grits, etc
Posted on 9/22/11 at 6:37 am to ladytiger118
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I'm pretty sure that groceries like Rouses and Winn Dixie sell the Cafe Du Monde beignet mix as well. They taste exactly the same fried up at home as they do at Cafe Du Monde; probably cheaper too.
I've always considered coffee and beignets from Cafe Du Monde or Morning Call to be about the most insanely cheap dining establishment things ever. He'll, compare them to these other recent coffee shop places prices.
People who don't love beignets lack souls.
Posted on 9/22/11 at 6:58 am to Y.A. Tittle
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People who don't love beignets lack souls.
I agree. Every culture has a fried sweet dough and they are all great.
Posted on 9/22/11 at 7:03 am to Y.A. Tittle
I like the experience of eating beignets, not the beignets themselves. Taking the street car and making a walk to Jackson Square and then sitting down to people watch, the beignets give you something to put in your mouth. Or heading to Morning Call on a Saturday morning, buying a Times Pick at the paper stand next door and reading it while eating beignets. Yeah, I enjoy the experience, but the beignets themselves are unremarkable and I could just as easily be eating Twizzlers and get the same experience.
Posted on 9/22/11 at 7:21 am to TulaneLSU
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I could just as easily be eating Twizzlers and get the same experience.
I can respect this. To each his own.
Jumping on the "they are for tourists" bandwagon is lame.
I don't know about Cafe' Du Monde, but Coffee Call in BR is not surviving on tourists.
Posted on 9/22/11 at 7:42 am to ksayetiger
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tourist trap
Not at all. You think the majority of customers going to Cafe Du Monde locations outside of the quarter are tourists? Mandeville? Covington? Metairie? Kenner? What about Morning Call in Metairie? Not much of a tourist stop if you ask me.
Don't forget New Orleans Hamburger Uptown is frying up some goods one too.
Posted on 9/22/11 at 8:40 am to Y.A. Tittle
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People who don't love beignets lack souls.
Tittle, I may lack a soul due to my not loving beignets, but I used to really love the red beans & rice with sausage at Maspero's in the Quarter. Does that gain me any soul, or does it make matters worse?
Posted on 9/22/11 at 8:44 am to Skillet
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used to really love the red beans & rice with sausage at Maspero's in the Quarter. Does that gain me any soul, or does it make matters worse?
Just means you are a tourist.
This post was edited on 9/22/11 at 9:17 am
Posted on 9/22/11 at 9:10 am to Tigertown in ATL
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Just means you are a tourist.
One of my few true stories.
There's no doubt that I'm NO ignorant..I went to see someone at the Tulane Med Center one night a few years back. I had never been there, and totally don't know my way around NO. Anywho, when I got off the interstate where the Super Dome is, I turned right instead of left.
I soon figured that that was wrong so I pulled my fancy little sports car into the parking lot of a store that had bars on all the doors & windows with quite a few loiterers hanging around and asked the lady at the window where the med center was. She pointed to the big building way down the road in the opposite direction (duh) of what I was going and said you best hurry up and get out of here if you know what's good for you.
This post was edited on 9/22/11 at 9:11 am
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