But wrt Louisiana, yes, of course its quite possible to take credit for the cuisine and avoid blame for the transportation system ... since it was not the French in control for the past century and a half, its not up to them what parts of the legacy were retained and what parts where ditched ... and since working out the TGV's is something that wasn't around a century and a half ago, the problem is that the US is not presently borrowing the best stuff from overseas. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
