15 Things You Should Never Say to Someone From Louisiana

(KMDL-FM) If you shut your mouth and open your ears, you can hear a lot of amazing things in Louisiana. There is the call of swamp birds as they fly low across the Atchaflaya Basin near Henderson. You can hear the sound of pork fat meeting high heat at countless cracklin' places in Scott. And in Baton Rouge, if you're near the legislature, you can hear what sounds like a bull eliminating waste from its body.

Yes, Louisiana is a cornucopia of a cacophony of sounds. And sometimes those sounds can cause quite a conundrum, especially when the sound waves come together to form either a very stupid question or an even more ignorant statement.

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What's Something You Should Never Say to Someone From Louisiana?

Look, we all say stupid things. In Louisiana, there are people who have dedicated their whole lives to spewing nonsense. It's just unfortunate when the speaker doesn't realize they're spewing nonsense and those listening have their "crap detectors" going off like an alarm for diner dashers at any location of a Fiery Crab restaurant.

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I think all of us at some point or another will be or have been guilty of a "foot in mouth" disease. It happens. You meant to say something witty and clever, and it comes out anything but witty and clever. But you know, sometimes it is what we say. Other times it's where we say it. Our ability not to say the wrong thing in the wrong place is called situational awareness.

Many visitors who come to Louisiana don't possess situational awareness, and they say some of the "dumbest" things. I don't think they're being dumb, I think they just forgot to think before they spoke. And they certainly didn't consider their surroundings before the words left their lips.

How Hard Is It to Understand People from Louisiana?

We've compiled a list of things that you really shouldn't say when you're visiting Louisiana or if you're speaking to a resident of our fine state. It really isn't that hard to understand what we say. You just have to listen more slowly. No, we probably won't correct you, but we might laugh at you as soon as you walk away.