Dear CJG,
I know you are Jewish so let me ask you Four Questions: what makes New Orleans so different from any other city?
Brett in Minneapolis
Dear Brett,
First, you only asked one question, but CJG assumes that's because you are in on the little secret that even very few Jews know: that on Passover, it's really one question with four answers, to wit, "why is tonight different from every other night?" The answers, as you probably know, include, "because on most nights we eating sitting up and tonight we eat reclining," "because on most nights we eat leavened bread and tonight we eat only unleavened bread," and "because on most night Uncle Hesche isn't here with our bratty cousins boring us to tears with stories about his medical problems."
But to answer your question, what makes New Orleans -- or NOLA as we who are really cool and in the know like to call it -- so different is that only in New Orleans two weeks before Mardi Gras can you see about a dozen major pre-Mardi Gras parades that make moving around parts of the city nearly impossible. Only in New Orleans is a "major police presence" defined as a dozen on-duty uniformed officers on parade duty helping themselves to drinks at a local bar along the parade route. And only in New Orleans can you sit down at a restaurant with beer you've brought in and without a thought the waiter opens one for your 15 year-old son who looks about four years younger. Let the good times roll, indeed.
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| This is not a Mardi Gras scene. It's an official college tour of Tulane University. |
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