While reading one of the other message headings, I came across comments about alligators on Ambergris Caye. On our first visit, my wife and I came across a big green thing in the 12' range. We believed it to be a croc.

I believe that crocodiles are indigenous to AC, not alligators.

Anyone know for sure?

There are two species of crocodiles in Belize, the Morelets and the American. There are NO alligators. Belizeans, however, often refer to crocs as alligators, hence the confusion.

--Lan Sluder
Belize First Magazine
http:/www.turq.com/belizefirst/

My coonass Louisiana girlfriend notes that gators live in fresh water and mr. croc lives in brackish water and can tolerate much higher salt contents. She says both taste great in gumbo!

EDD - Your girlfriend may be a great girl but I wouldn't take her word on aligators tasting good in gumbo. I had it three years ago in New Orleans. I still have heartburn.

Blue,
All I can tell you is this: She cooks everything in one pot. I can't tell you what's in it (and I NEVER ask) but it tastes great. I should mention, though, that I'm a major stockholder in Rolaids!

Had alligator "on a stick" in Nawlins' years ago. It tasted like chicken!

You gotta cook it right......LOL

I personally like it cut in chunks either deep fried or blackened.....and dip it in Blue cheese dressing......mmmmm.....YUM!

Tams,
I don't imagine it makes a whole helluva lotta difference which they are(Croc or 'Gator) if you're on the receiving end of those dainty little choppers! 'Course, you grew up wif 'em, so...you probably move a lot faster than the rest of us!!!
P.S. Explain "coonass" to me?! Is that some backwater term I should have picked up on?

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It's a Cajun term of endearment for those of "bayou" extraction. There are in fact several self-described "Louisiana coonasses" living in San Pedro as this is written.

CC

Thanks for the clarification, Choo Choo...I'm always open to learning the vernacular of different locales!

Right Choo Choo!

Daemyon....I didnt grow up around it....just familiar with it.

Worked 5 yrs. in New Orleans, (actually Metarie) at the ole East Jefferson Hospital.
A lot of my co-workers were from Houma, La. about an hour drive away.

Trust me....good folks...and they DO wear the label "Coonasses" lovingly!.....LOL

You can't beat the food and the culture in Louisiana! Outstanding!

And no.....you're right....teeth are teeth....wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a gator or a croc.

I'll stick to eating the gator though.


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Sandshaker,
Hubby is a registered coonass!!!! He was born in Metarie!!!!! He loves gator meat, crawfish, crabs, etc. Real coonasses from the swamps are liable to eat just about anything....... Including squirrels, nutrias, turtles, armadillos and the like. He has a friend from Argentina that never got the gist of "coon ass" and calls him "the ass of a coon". Same thing, but looses the endearment in the translation, don't you think? LOL
Debbie

Debbie,
Not having met him I don't feel qualified to comment. What do you think?

SS...now you know why there is a complete lack of any AC animal life around Art and Kay's apartment. You can tell him I said so, and he's welcome.

CC

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LOL

"Ass of a coon"....huh?
Yes.....no endearment there!

Choo Choo.....is THAT what the problem is??
LOL.....wish willy on a stick on the BBQ huh?

Oh God!

I will pass that on to Art Choo....gotta get in touch with him anyway....need a few little things done around the office.
Art is a good guy and does great work!

I just need to find what I did with his #.
If you have it Choo....can you email it to me?

Thanks!

SS,

The only "numbers" I have are:

Charlies (Estels) for breakfast 8 a.m. or
Cannibals for Breakfast 8 a.m.

Hideaway for lunch 11 a.m. on.......

and the always popular "waiting for traffic to clear after work" location (BC's) around 4 p.m. Tell Piccou (when you find him) that SWMBO Jan has three "heirloom quality" pictures of him with the "awful blue drink" on his anniversary the 29th. (Kay didn't seem as happy about that episode as MR. Coon Ass was).

Bombs away,

CC

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Choo Choo,
It seems that we met a coon ass while we were down on AC. Met him and his wife at Fido's. He was delighted with my hubby who was wearing one of his more crude and obnoxious T-shirts. (Don't you have one with a pig on it?)
"Sucked a little head and ate a little tail in New Orleans"....... It had a picture of a crawfish on it..... but KNOW you would prefer the joke to the literal meaning.... He lived in San Pedro and if I'm not mistaken, owned a restaurant or club there. Do you know who I'm talking about? Same guy as mentioned above????
Debbie

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Debbie,

This "coonass" was trying to be kinda "retired", but now does construction projects around the island (when the spirit moves, of course). Nope, not the same Louisee's.

I hope that wasn't a perjorative comment that you were startin' to make about my "pig" shirt. It just sort of covers my favorite foods as well as some social habits. (Just kidding.)

Chooch,
Saw a picture of you in your pig shirt. You were with Beerbudget and JanePA. It was real impressive!!!! I can only assume you had an infamous blue cocktail behind one of their backs......... You and hubby would get along great. The pig shirt...... This doesn't mean you're a razorback from Arkansas does it? *grinning*
Deb

Ah Deb,

NO, heavens no, to the Razorback thing. And, the "infamous, awful blue drink" was in full view, as usual, just in front of the piggy (shirt, that is). Even our "baby", the 22 y/o son had three of them over Christmas in SP. Says now his life has been demonically altered, that he's ruined for life and after graduation will never leave the house. (OUR house, that is).

We're taking the riff-raff concoction to the BVI for eight days in Feb. That oughta take a little starch out of those Limey shorts.

Ms. Priscilla, she of direct Coonass heritage, politely points out that the term "coonass" is a compliment, but if I call her "Ass of Coon", my ass is OUTSIDE with the dogs!

LOL @ Edd. Hubby was a bit agitated by the international interpretation of "coonass", but grit his teeth in an effort to be a polite host and continue to be the goodwill ambassador to Argentina........

I, on the other hand, have taken to calling hubbies intermittant, peculiar, behavior as him being, "coonie". Do you have to appease the "coonie" behavior of your spouse with such things as red beans and rice, etoufee and gumbo???? *grinning* I do......
Deb

Debbie, Debbie,
Finally a Soul-Mate that understands! Miss Priscilla thinks red beans & rice is a meal, I look at it as a side dish; same with gumbo, boudin, and all the "wild creatures boiled in hot sauce that I don't want to even talk about, but cooked in one pot" and served over a bed of rice. Where's the beef? I'm from Texas,and consider these items tasty, but far short of REAL food. And by the way, can you understand anything these coonasses say? They talk in a language with which I'm not at all familiar. And also by the way, who the Hell is Boudreaux? HELP!!!!

Edd.... ROFLMAO!!
For starters, "Boudreaux" is my husbands name when he's in deep shit or in the dog house...... Boudreaux can refer to just about anybody....
As for the culinary delights, I'm of french decent as well, but NOT cajun. Some of the cooking is similar, some isn't. I wasn't raised to think that Tabasco Sauce is a condiment to go on EVERYTHING!!! Woe unto me if we should run out....... ALTHOUGH... he discovered habanero pepper sauce while in Belize, and now I have to order it off the net..... "Blackened" meant, "you screwed up!! Throw it out!" Suck heads was a term I didn't learn until a married adult, and wasn't sure I wanted to know...still don't. YUCK! I firmly believe the only reason "Boudreaux" married me is because I CAN make red beans and rice, gumbo, etc. Fortunately, "Boudreaux" likes beef, and will eat it, but MUCH prefers red fish, crabs and crawfish. My french background goes to the French West Indies (St. Maarten) and all my relatives talk funny too, so I had a better time than most deciphering what they were talking about. My father in law is a hoot!!! YOu haven't lived until you've spent the weekend at a "fish camp" on the bayou or swamp with his relatives. Truly a world and culture all it's own!!! As a side note..... Etoufee on the menu for tomorrow. Surprised??? LOL
Debbie