Uncle Daddy & Big Mama's Bayou Cafe

UNCLE DADDY & BIG MAMA’S BAYOU CAFE

Down in the Louisiana Bayou where the tall green grass stands on high is the most famous renowned restaurant that almost peaks the sky.

Great-Great Grand Dad was a short, strong man who raised fifteen children while sharecropping someone else's land. Till one day, while hunting for gators along a bayou swamp span, he came across an abandoned gator egg half hatched, so he scooped it up and took it home in his hand. Once the egg completely hatched, it was a surprise to the entire clan that the baby gator was as white as Caribbean sand.

A white albino gator, the rarest in the land, is a most remarkable creature, he knew God had a plan. Legend says whoever comes across, finds or captures a white albino gator will have good fortune for their entire life. That's how Uncle Daddy and Big Momma's Bayou Cafe came about because Great-Great Grandad Goudeau ended up being the richest man in the land. He acquired two hundred acres of farmland that included the bayou swamp span.

My name is George Ricardo Goudeau, Jr., Jr., Uncle Daddy calls me Georgie Porgie because I love to eat Big Momma's praline pudding pies. Uncle Daddy is my grandfather, George Henry Goudeau, Sr., Sr., and George Henry Goudeau, Sr., Sr., Sr. was his grandfather. We all get confused by the family lineage names, so for the record we just call him Uncle Daddy, cause he's an uncle for some of us and a daddy to all of us. There are twelve clan members not including uncles, aunties, nephews, nieces and grandchildren. When a baby is born their name is written in the family's little black notebook cause the family Bibles don’t have enough room. All newborns get their inheritance of twenty thousand dollars up front to secure their promising future. If the money gets squandered, well, you get what you get, so don't pitch a fit cause that's all you're gonna get.

Uncle Daddy and Big Momma started the famous Bayou Cafe. There was the land, a factory plant, distribution centers, grocery stores, mobile food trucks and the renowned famous restaurant. My family was very generous so we employed many people who flourished there was no need to just get by. The bayou cafe served seafood from the rootie to the tootie. You could order it raw, boiled, broiled, barbecued and fried with potato salad or coleslaw, two veggies, cornbread and pickle on the side. There was gumbo, etouffee, chowder, and spicy jambalaya. Of course, there was chicken, pork, raccoon, snake, possum, turtle, squirrel and gator meat for those that desired. Everybody loved Uncle Daddy's famous beer battered extra crispy gator strips. Big Momma's famous gumbo was my favorite pick. Out of nowhere, there was some suspicious goings on in the business, things started to go missing and business went from good to bad. It happened all of the sudden, sad, so, so sad.

Uncle Daddy believed business went bad because Georgie, the family pet white albino gator suddenly up and disappeared along with a bank deposit bag. We were too busy to even notice. Along with Georgie, his good luck football hat, his snake skin wallet, his gold Rolex watch, his gold bracelet, his keys and the family black notebook had gone missing. When Hurricane Katrina occurred, anything that was left was lost. The entire business was gone and most of the Goudeau clan moved to Texas or Georgia.

A year later after Katrina, Uncle Daddy and Big Momma visited the family land. At the location where the Bayou Cafe once stood was a gator’s nest with seven white albino baby alligators along with a football hat, a snake skin wallet, a gold Rolex watch, a gold bracelet, keys, a black little notebook, and a bag filled with twenty thousand dollars! Uncle Daddy and Big Momma just turned to one another and laughed then gathered all including the seven gators and went back to Texas and bought some new land.

Down in the Texas Plains where the marsh wetlands thrive Big Daddy Goudeau discovered some black oil on our land so the Goudeau clan was able to strive. Thank you Big Daddy! That's my Papa.

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