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The chicken is here! Korean chicken is so good, but there are times when you want to change it a little bit. So today, American chicken! Cajun chicken, a South American food! Let's eat! It's a channel where we explore world culture. I'm used to talking about the East and West of the United States, and then I'm used to talking about France. So last time, I changed the mood and did a German-style mukbang, and it was really fun. And while talking about American culture, I've never talked about the South. So today, I'm going to talk about Louisiana, which has a very interesting culture in the South. I'm going to talk about Louisiana chicken. After I finished filming in New York, I was going to go to New Orleans for a personal vacation. So I looked up how far New Orleans was from New York. It's 2,100km. When I went 2,100km from Seoul, I looked up where it was, and it was Hong Kong. It's one country, but the distance is huge. I think the Northeastern city culture and the New Orleans culture are very different. There are a few things that come to mind when you think of New Orleans. First of all, there's Mardi Gras, one of the biggest street festivals in the United States. The black people who live in New Orleans sing and dance to the music. It's a very famous genre culture that goes up and down. And when you think of New Orleans, a lot of people think of jazz. There are a lot of jazz artists that we know who went from New Orleans to New York or Chicago. And most of the American cities look similar. Only the historical sites of Louisiana have a lot of French architecture, so it's called the French Quarter. A lot of historical fans go to New Orleans. New Orleans has a very unique culture. One of the most well-known things in the world is New Orleans' unique food culture. In particular, Cajun food, which is said to be the best food for Koreans in many regions of the United States, is a New Orleans culture. Many cities in the United States have very different cultures. If you go back in time, the first people who settled in that city had a great impact on their identity. For example, in the case of Boston, it is famous that British and Irish people settled here for religious reasons. In the case of New York, it is a city where business and commerce have developed because it was built for trade by Moffy traders from the Netherlands. But what's unique about New Orleans is that it's a city built by the French. If you go west of Paris, there is a city called Orléans. The city we are very familiar with because of Jean d'Arc. New Orleans was newly built in the New Continent. The city called Nouvelle-Orléans was called New Orleans by the Americans. This New Orleans culture is really fun. American culture itself is a melting pot of cultures of immigrants from many countries. We see in history books how the heritage of Spanish culture, which settled in California, and the heritage of British culture, which settled in the east of the United States, influenced American culture. In fact, I don't think we talk much about the influence of the French on the United States. First of all, if we look at the history of the Great Depression, there were famous explorers in France. There was a man named Jacques Cartier, and there was a man named Lassalle. During the Great Depression, a man named Lassalle sailed on a ship to North America and made a huge discovery. He found out that there was a huge river that passed through the North American continent to the South and North. It's the Mississippi River. So he dedicated the Mississippi River to his king. So the area was named after Louis XIV, the king of France at that time. It's called Louisiana, the land of Louis. So, along the Mississippi River, there were a few couriers who traded with the Native Americans, but there was no major pioneering business. After Louis XIV died, Louis XV died at a very young age. That's why Louis XIV's nephew, Orléans, Philip II, took over Louis XV. But Louis XIV had a lot of wars, so the French economy was very bad at the age of Louis XV. At that time, a businessman named John Lowe came to Scotland. He is one of the most brilliant businessmen in European history. He told Louis XIV to reform the currency. Louis XIV said, Why don't you use the huge land of Mississippi in the name of France? Louis XIV made this land a stock company called Mississippi Company, and he said that he could issue stocks to boost the French economy. The development of Louisiana and Orléans was very progressive, and then the Mississippi bubble burst, and the French economy was almost ruined, and then the French Revolution. That's how much Louisiana and New Orleans have had a great impact on French history. French people settled in New Orleans at that time. After marrying the natives and slaves living around them, a new culture, cuisine, and race was created by mixing African, American, and French traditions called Creole. So there are still two styles of New Orleans cuisine. One is Creole and the other is Cajun. So where does Cajun culture come from? Surprisingly, Cajun culture is related to Canada. Louis XIV's political philosophy was that France must be a consistent country. So what he said was, Un loi, une loi, une foi. One king, one law, one faith. There must be a Catholic and a Protestant. The king is Catholic, so you should all believe in the Catholic. As a result, these Protestants were persecuted in France. So they settled in the northeast of Canada, which was a French territory at the time. If you look at the map now, they settled in the neighborhoods of Labrador and New Brunswick. And at that time, the cities in the northeast of the United States, where the same Protestant priests settled, were traded with neighborhoods such as Boston, and a new country of Protestants seemed to be created. The French thought that the country they settled in was like a paradise in ancient mythology, so they called themselves the Arcadian. But they were betrayed in Boston. The people of Boston went to the northeast of Canada with the flag of the British king and conquered the French Protestants. And the people of Boston kept saying to the people of Boston, ''You're in cahoots with the French, aren't you?'' So the people of Boston thought that religion was first, but the people of Canada were first. So they left the northeast of Canada and moved to Louisiana, where many French people live. So these people arrived in New Orleans on a ship. New Orleans was already settled by Creoles who believed in Catholicism. So the people of Acadia settled in a slum in the upper reaches of the UCCP rather than in New Orleans. When I made the Redery 2 video, there was a place where I passed by riding a horse. If you want to go up there, you have to go through a huge slum, and the people of Acadia settled in that slum. So they started to do business in the slum. So they caught fish in the slum, and they caught some kind of crayfish, and they caught some kind of clam. So what if we get fishy food from the sea? We put spicy food in it and boil it. Like that, these people had to eat the food from the mud, but the food was too fishy, so they did a lot of experiments to get rid of the fishy smell. So at first, they started to put a lot of Mediterranean herbs that the French used. They put a lot of oregano, thyme powder, onion powder, and garlic powder, but maybe this alone didn't get rid of the fishy smell, so they added other spices that the natives there used, such as paprika and cayenne pepper, and invented a new sauce called Cajun sauce, which added the flavor of the Mediterranean and the spiciness of America. The taste of this Cajun sauce is so familiar that it almost reminds us of the taste of the United States. This is how it started. So if you boil it with this Cajun sauce, it becomes a traditional food of Louisiana called gumbo. If you fry it with Cajun sauce, it becomes Louisiana fried chicken, or Cajun fried chicken. Louisiana belongs to the south when you divide the U.S. into the north and south. The U.S. built a line from the mid-1800s, and there was no slavery system on any line, and there was a slavery system under any line. And in the 1860s, the states in the north and south of this line had a big war over whether the U.S. would continue to maintain the slavery system or not. It was a war between the north and the south. As soon as the war ended, the North and the south were in charge, and the old slaves there were protected so that they wouldn't be persecuted. But as the war ended, the North and the south withdrew. The people in the south must have been very angry. So they started to discriminate against the people who used to be slaves. Terrible violence ensued. In the early 20th century, there was a historical event called the Great Migration, where the black people who were enslaved by their ancestors moved to northern cities such as Chicago, Detroit, and New York. The place where they settled down in New York was Harlem. They had a hard time living in a one-room apartment. They made a living day by day, so they must have eaten a lot on the street. They must have wanted to eat South American food that they ate when they were young. So if you go to Harlem today, there are a lot of places that sell South American food, especially Cajun-style fried chicken. They say, ramen is my soul food, tteokbokki is my soul food, but the word soul food was originally used to mean the food that black people in northern cities ate while missing the South. If you want to eat real soul food, you have to eat Louisiana-style fried chicken. In the end, fried chicken is... Now, Korea has the most chicken consumption per person, but it's a culture that came from the United States. In my opinion, it's a food made by people with a grudge, and it suits us well. I think there's something like that. So if you look at the list of the food that Koreans like the most, they like foods that were invented to soothe cold and hunger in an era that was very difficult after the Korean War rather than traditional food. Cajun food is also a food made by the Acadians who were kicked out of France because of their religion, couldn't settle down in Canada, and were kicked out again, and were forced to find food to eat. It's a food that people who were slaves in Louisiana brought up to Chicago or New York. That kind of food is soul food, so it has to be emotionally compatible with Koreans. Today, I'm going to make an excuse to talk about Louisiana, and I'm going to order chicken and talk about it. Popeyes is an original Louisiana chicken, so I ordered Popeyes. A long time ago, I went on a trip and ate something in a country. Oh, this is so delicious. So I want to tell the PD. But even if I explain the taste with a story, it doesn't get delivered. But these days, there are a lot of good chains like this, so I'm not saying that Cajun chicken is really good. I think the point is that you can order it and try it. Actually, it's been a long time since I've had Cajun chicken. Do you dig your legs? I eat both. But when I see you put your legs in, you'll dig your legs. It tastes almost the same as what I ate in Harlem. It tastes like soul food. The spicy one in Western food is spicy in front of the mouth, and the spicy one in Korea is spicy behind the mouth or throat. That's the difference. It's chicken, but I feel like I'm eating something exotic. And this crispy layer is on a different level. There are several all-purpose sauces in the world. But I think the person who made this Cajun powder is a great contributor to humanity. He must have made so many people happy and asked for their souls. That's why there's soul food. When I go to eat chicken, I usually drink a lot of coke and beer, but today I'm going to drink lemonade. I don't know if this is exactly related to Louisiana, but if you watch a movie about the South of the United States, it's hot in the South of the United States, so there's often a wrap-around balcony in the house. So there's a house like this, and it's a balcony that surrounds the house at 360 degrees. It's almost like a rocking chair. I always eat lemonade when I watch a movie there. I have to make it feel full, so I eat chicken with lemonade. But this goes really well with it. It's delicious if we sprinkle a little lemon on the fried food. This fried Cajun is really good with this. I don't dip ketchup when I eat Cajun fries. Because this beautiful Cajun powder Why do you have to cover it with that sour and sweet ketchup? And now, in order for American food to become popular, you have to be able to hold it and eat it. The biggest difference between American culture and Korean food culture is that Americans eat a lot of food while standing or walking. So I think it's the ultimate American food to put everything in between bread and eat it. This Louisiana chicken is made into a sandwich. In fact, I want to eat chicken when I have to go back to work from the park in the afternoon. But if I put this in the park and eat it, pigeons will come and eat it all. So preciously While protecting my chicken And this is Cajun rice For those of you who like tacos, There's a bean in tacos, right? But that's not a bean, it's rice. You can think of it that way. There are three reasons why South Korean food fits the taste of Koreans. One is that it has salt. In other words, it has Korean. And the second is based on rice. They use a lot of rice. And the third is spicy. In fact, it's a little difficult for Koreans to eat food every day in places like Boston. If I go to New Orleans, I think I can keep eating New Orleans food. It was really fun to talk about how the rice was made while eating while watching our soju content. Because history and food have a deep relationship. In a way, New Orleans was a place where many races, cultures, and religions intersected earlier than New York. It's like a Cajun sauce. I think it's a sauce that can only be made when a lot of spices from many countries come together. So when I eat your food, I think I can hear soul music in my ears. I think this would be good, too. I'm eating while watching the movie Soul. It's like sitting down and traveling. The most important thing is that I think we should go to New Orleans for content. I'm going to see the holy sites of Creole culture and the jazz bar that's over 100 years old. I'm going to eat some gumbo and eat some chicken at the pop bar. And I'd like to have a New Orleans culture experience. That's it for today's Chosun Dynasty Exploration. I'll see you next time with a more interesting history and culture story. I'm thinking of making a content that talks about various countries' culinary cultures in Korea. If there's a dish, food, or restaurant you'd like to recommend, please leave a comment. I'll see you next time. Goodbye.