B Thoreau 🛸 on Nostr: So growing up my family would say, " I am hungry, let's get some grah-doo" or " Do we ...

So growing up my family would say, " I am hungry, let's get some grah-doo" or " Do we have any grah-doo, I could eat a horse." We use it to mean snacks, something good to eat.

I was always curious where we got the word grah-doo from, as I had never ever heard another family use it. I thought it was unique family-speak.

It was years before I learned the Cajun French word for the closely related word gradoux (pronounced grah-doo) refering to the flavorful, brown bits of meat and spices stuck to the bottom of a cooking pot. People love snacking on crispy "gradoo."

The thing is, no one in the Family tree was in Louisiana, or was French, or Cajun. I am wondering if the German- Dutch side of the family borrowed it from the French.

I was reminded of it when my seven year old nephew walked into my kitchen and asked if I had any grahdoo? Thus another generation inherits the mystery word.

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