In the future, please substitute "septic jumbalaya."

HTH!

As the world has seen and heard by now, rapper Kanye West expressed his frustration at the Katrina relief efforts and his thoughts on U.S. President George W. Bush last week during a nationally televised benefit. While his thoughts and statement have received much attention, a rap group from Houston, The Legendary K.O., has taken it one step further and recorded a song, entitled “George Bush Don't Like Black People”, using the Kanye West “Gold Digger” instrumental.

The song, available for free download through www.k-otix.com , received over 10,000 downloads in the first day alone, with listeners ranging from the U.S. to Europe and Japan.

Legendary K.O. member Micah Nickerson lives minutes away from the Astrodome, where many Katrina victims are being housed, came up with the song concept immediately after hearing Kanye West's remarks.

“I had really wanted to write about this in the first-person, as someone stuck in New Orleans and left by this administration to basically fend for myself, but was having trouble putting the emotions I felt into words. When I heard Kanye during the benefit, the rest as they say was history,” said Micah.

The song was recorded and included on a friend's web site promoting new music from various artists (www.fwmj.com). Within a day, his site was overwhelmed with the traffic, as users were flocking to download the song.

Damien Randle, the other member of The Legendary K.O., says that the song expresses their and many others feelings about this administration.

“No matter which side of the political debate we reside on, I think we can all agree that this situation represents the ultimate human tragedy, and highlights the need for sweeping improvements in some of the most fundamental segments of society. The safety and well-being of all people should always be considered first, and we felt compelled to express that through song,” said Damien.

The Legendary K.O. is not staying on the sidelines during this tragedy, making music, but not taking action. Micah and Damien have also donated food, clothes, and time to local organizations and urge anyone that has not donated to please do

P.S.: Thanks for the link to my comic, PNH!

Were I feeling affluent I might even play buy up a supply for resale....

But "Septic Jumbalaya" is way better.

...then again, after pumping all that shit (truth) into the Gulf, I'm not sure I'll ever eat shrimp again.

I feel a bit tacky worrying about getting my Zatarain's fix, but I was happy to note that they've been providing lots of meals to the relief effort -- that's got to be better than MREs.

Clams from some contaminated beds get put into clean tanks or something and flush out after some number of days, I think. I doubt if the shellfish fisheries down in the Gulf in the areas affected by Katrina and the Bush League Flood afterward, won't recover and be edible again--the duration is a question, but it came back after all the Camille pollution--summer of 1975 the water in the Gulf on the Biloxi shore was officially offlimits to peope at Keesler AFB, by order of the Base Commander, due to contamination/pollution still present in the wake of Camille.... I was majorly not impressed. Boston Harbor despite raw sewage at the time sometimes flowing out into the harbor, was safe for swimming on most days--and there are a lot more people whose sewage went to the overburdened treatment facilities in Boston (not just Boston, but all the way west to Framingham!) than the Biloxi area at the time.

Tabasco Sauce is made at Avery Island, which is about 140 miles west of New Orleans, and so should be in adequate condition, although the island did suffer when an over-ambitious oil crew drilled into its salt dome several years ago. I don't know about the sites for other hot sauce producers. However, even highly enthusiastic users don't go through a bottle as fast as a Lincoln Navigator goes through a tank of gas, and the really hard-core keep back-up supplies on hand. Ride-sharing wouldn't be possible, though, so other conservation methods would be needed.

retire [...] from your vocabulary

Tears of joy at that fabulous turn of phrase. Beautiful.

South-eastern US
Toxic Gumbo (retired)
Septic Jambalaya

South-western US
Deadly Guacamole
Salsa of Doom

North-eastern US
Catastrophe Scrapple
Hellchowder
Disascrod

France (northern)
Le Pate de l'Enfer
Terrine des Hommes

France (southern)
Le Marinade Tragique
Pissaladiaargh

UK
Reactor Leek (Wales only)
Deep-fried Glasgow
Roast Beef and Two Veg of Biblical Proportions
Black and Midnight Haggis
Sinister Apple Chutney (see Langford)

Russia
Kashatastrophe
Borscht Smertni
Pirozhki Uzhastni

Germany
Knackwurst Case Scenario
Notfallschnitzel

biscwaste and sewage gravy
Kentucky Hot Brown-outs
Burgoop

HELLCHOWDER! AWESOME!
Disascrod...BWAAAAHA!

Actually, here in SW Texas, no food-based metaphor for a toxic disaster would be more accurate than, "It'll be like that Pace picante Shit."

Apocalutefisk

Poi bowl of sludge?

(I may be showing my biases here; despite 28 years of residence, I hate the stuff.)

Alladio warned me not to get spattered by the floodwater. “The people who have been in this are going to get sick,” she said. The Environmental Protection Agency had team out taking water samples to check for toxins and the rumor—apparently unfounded—was that entire districts were so contaminated that they would have to be razed, along with hundreds of thousands of vehicles. The people who lived there might not realize it, she said, “but once they leave they are never going to see their homes again.”

2. Some people -do- rapidly go through bottles of hot sauce.

3. Where are e.g. the Paul Prudhomme [sp] products made?

The corporate offices, and where products get made, can even be thousand of miles away. I wonder about things like "made in China" on frozen Atlantic fish: the home of the fishing vessels/their ownership/flag apparently what the country of origin listed on the package is. The Norweigan fishing fleet goes all over the world fishing for w/h/a/l/e/s what it catches and lables as "Product of Norway" for example.

Now, Crystal Hot Sauce, which was the tastiest of the bunch, was based in Mid-City. I'm not even looking at an aerial photo, I know they flooded. I served the owning family a few times and found them to be good, happy, beer-drinking people, and by all accounts they were good to work for, so I wish them luck.

The Zat's plant was on the Best Bank, so they didn't flood. I wouldn't worry about them. The Camellia beans plant was in Harahan, and I think they got by just fine. Blue Runner's in Gonzales, I think, along with Bittersweet Farms, and they should be in great shape. The Abita brewery is up and running, and they're putting out a Fleur de Lis Restoration Ale.

Things to worry about :
Mauthe's Dairy in Folsom. No idea how these folks are doing.
Blue Plate spreads, on Jeff Davis. They flooded.
Smith Creamery up in Ponchatoula. These guys made a really good unhomogenized milk and made the damned best butter I've ever had. I hope they made it through fine.

Paul Prodhomme's operation is doing fine. Zapp's potato chips is in Gramercy, upriver. I'd bet that they're fine.
Jacob's Andouille is in Laplace, and again, they're probably all right. Creole Country on David in Mid-city and Terronova's on Esplanade are probably heavily damaged. Steen's is way out in Abbeville so they were untouched. Popcorn rice is made somewhere around there, too. I used to prefer a kind of olive salad made out in Kenner - Otchipini or something like that - I don't know about them. Gendusa's bakery, I don't know. That Italian bakery up in the Ninth ward that made the good muffaletta bread, they probably took on water. Hubig pies. They were down on Decatur, so they probably were fine, but I'm not sure. (They were starting to make the sweet potato pies, too. Damn it.) Gambino's, Randazzo's, etc., at least one branch should have made it through. Haydel's probably flooded bad.

Who am I missing? Help me out here.

And from here in Lancaster, we bring you :-

Lancashire Hotspot

Of course, Johnny White's will still be there.

An equivalent cliché for New York City was praise for New Yorkers from speakers who've always given every indication of loathing N.Y.C. and everything for which it stands, at least to them.

The only products that prices literally shot up overnight on and kept shooting up higher for a number of days, though, were gas and oil....