By Eddie Pipkin
Image by Dmitry Abramov from Pixabay
I love reading about quirky phrases, so I was delighted when I came across this one sometime in the past few months — I can’t even remember where; surely in New Orleans when I was there for a weekend in December: “Lache pas a la patate!” (Or the Cajun transliteration, “Losh la pa tot!”) The straightforward translation to English from the French is, “Don’t let go of the potato!” But the true Cajun spirit of this phrase when used in southern Louisiana and