Phillipthe2

With Fat Tuesday fast approaching, I can totally see a giddy (and slightly inebriated) college freshman year Roxanne hanging over a balcony railing on Bourbon Street...and getting absolutely pelted with beads. :D Roughly translated from Cajun French, 'Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler' (pronounced "lay-sa

"Je veux quelque chose de cool, Monsieur!" -or- "Throw me something, Mister!" is the traditional phrase shouted to krewe members during Mardi Gras street parades. See a soon-to-be bead-pelted Erin at the $1 tier level. :D Original Art by Phillipthe2

It's Moon Pie throwing season! Although New Orleans had the first organized Mardi Gras in 1699, four years before Mobile, Alabama (pronounced Moe-Beel), Mobile had the first formally organized parade in 1830. Flinging Moon Pies from the parade floats in Mobile didn't become a thing until after 1950.