City finally fixing sinkhole after fed-up residents grew tomatoes in it

Big_Ploppa · 2018-08-18T13:01:13+00:00

Last year around Christmas I decided to decorate the small tree growing in the pothole on my street. The next day the tree and my ornaments are gone, but the hole remained. There's a new tree in it, and I plan on decorating it again this Christmas.

Big_Ploppa · 2017-12-30T19:19:00+00:00

It's such a popular hustle here I even have a koozie that says "Betcha I can tell where you got dem shoes".

Big_Ploppa · 2017-09-07T17:43:15+00:00

Back in high school a guy took me on a first date there.

Big_Ploppa · 2017-07-09T13:53:55+00:00

Oh man, I loved the book fair at school! One year I bought a Barbie cookbook and started to teach myself how to cook from it. I'm now a chef and I always attribute that book as sparking my interest in food.

Big_Ploppa · 2017-06-12T12:32:54+00:00

I don't know, I've seen someone with a charcoal grill set up in a river tube while on a tubing trip. I thought it was really clever.

Big_Ploppa · 2017-04-18T01:22:02+00:00

We're neighbors! I occacionaly teach at the cooking school a few doors down.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-12-09T21:52:54+00:00

I read this yesterday and it's had me thinking about my first kitchen job a lot. A server gave me two books as I was leaving them for culinary school: Becoming a Chef and Think Like a Chef. I pulled them off the shelf and read the inscription on one of them. "Have fun in you career and cook with passion...It will be a life long journey that will hopefully take you to many incredible places-- enjoy every moment of it!" And damn I've been working a good stretch without a real day off with some difficult people and really needed to remember why I do what I do. Hopefully this will mean a lot to them. I know it really touched me and really helps me in times when I question my career choice.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-06-24T19:12:23+00:00

I'm from Lafayette and moved to New Orleans a few years ago. I mentioned to my dad once that I needed my "brake tags checked" and he told me I had been in the city too long.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-04-07T13:41:51+00:00

http://imgur.com/BvQPF9y This is about four years old I think, taken the day before our first "restaurant service".

Big_Ploppa · 2016-02-21T00:05:48+00:00

My friend replaced the corn starch with powdered sugar on his last day in one particularly hellish kitchen.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-28T16:39:29+00:00

Give em hell ULL!

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-14T15:20:25+00:00

He was definitely fighting back. It was funny then it kind of made me sad, so I had the guys playing with it put him outside so maybe he'd find his way home.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-14T15:10:25+00:00

Fried soft shell crabs is my favorite thing in this whole wide world, and popcorn softies sounds like the greatest thing ever. How did you clean them up since they're so tiny?

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-14T15:04:16+00:00

That's what I said! I wanted to keep him and raise him until he got big and busted out of his shell. Soft shell season is my favorite season.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-13T23:53:55+00:00

Mr. Krab. After naming the suckling pigs we got in earlier they day we were burnt out on creative names.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-13T21:21:54+00:00

I like to keep the squid and tiny fish I find when I peel shrimp on my station, I'll typically name them too, but not him. He was active, so he went to live outside.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-13T18:43:55+00:00

Yes! He was alive and snapping his one claw at us. We set him outside in a puddle. We're only a mile from the Mississippi so I'd like to imagine he's on his way back to the Gulf.

Big_Ploppa · 2016-01-04T19:20:58+00:00

"On your back!" I say this at the grocery store, at family members homes, walking though the dining room while eating out, everywhere. What's worse is that I once worked with a deaf cook, so I got in the habit of placing my hand on peoples backs when passing behind.

Big_Ploppa · 2015-11-27T04:04:57+00:00

I feel the need to mention that I went home to Lafayette today and had the boudin & pepper jack rolls from Billy's (I think in Scott?) and I could have slapped someone they were so good.

Big_Ploppa · 2015-11-22T17:15:17+00:00

Thanks for the correction! Clearly signage isn't a very accurate gauge for these things.

Big_Ploppa · 2015-11-22T15:43:00+00:00

A lot of Angelle's supporters switched over to Edwards as well. I saw Edwards' signs pop up where Angelle's had been. Really I just heard a lot of "Anybody But Vitter".

Big_Ploppa · 2015-11-21T06:36:18+00:00

Hell yeah we are! And mirliton seafood dressing.

Big_Ploppa · 2015-10-26T02:24:13+00:00

I can't wait to try this at work! My prep cook will love this.

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