Meg, Let your professor know that this New Orleans native thought you hit it out of the park. A++. Miss Dorothy! "Ya gonna eat it here, baby?", "O.K. my heart." God, does this make me miss New Orleans! (and I only live 45 minutes outside the city now.) Truly, I am in tears watching this. Miss Dorothy represents the sweetness and the kindness of heart that I associate with the city. I use to go to Domilise's when I was in high school. (I am 55 years old now.) To understand what she said about the refigerators, you have to understand post Katrina. There was no electricity for weeks. Normally people empty their refrigerator because the food spoils. In the hardest hit areas we were kept away for weeks. The spoiled food was so bad it infiltrated into the gaskets of the refrigerators and NO amount of cleaning could get rid of the smell. We had to leave the old refrigerators on the curb and buy new ones. (In the humor of New Orleans, funny or political things were written on them like "Free Gumbo!" or "Fire the Corps of Engineers!" Someone published a book of the old discarded refrigerators and the writing on them! LOL! One artist decorated his car with discarded refrigerator magnets from the curbside refrigerators.) For restaurants cleaning up these foul refrigerators was a particularly vile undertaking and expensive to replace. They are heroes one and all and we can thank them for helping the city recover. Bravo!
Meg,
ReplyDeleteLet your professor know that this New Orleans native thought you hit it out of the park. A++. Miss Dorothy! "Ya gonna eat it here, baby?", "O.K. my heart." God, does this make me miss New Orleans! (and I only live 45 minutes outside the city now.) Truly, I am in tears watching this. Miss Dorothy represents the sweetness and the kindness of heart that I associate with the city. I use to go to Domilise's when I was in high school. (I am 55 years old now.) To understand what she said about the refigerators, you have to understand post Katrina. There was no electricity for weeks. Normally people empty their refrigerator because the food spoils. In the hardest hit areas we were kept away for weeks. The spoiled food was so bad it infiltrated into the gaskets of the refrigerators and NO amount of cleaning could get rid of the smell. We had to leave the old refrigerators on the curb and buy new ones. (In the humor of New Orleans, funny or political things were written on them like "Free Gumbo!" or "Fire the Corps of Engineers!" Someone published a book of the old discarded refrigerators and the writing on them! LOL! One artist decorated his car with discarded refrigerator magnets from the curbside refrigerators.) For restaurants cleaning up these foul refrigerators was a particularly vile undertaking and expensive to replace. They are heroes one and all and we can thank them for helping the city recover. Bravo!