New Orleans cooks have a hundred ways to make gumbo. Most of the variations are on the protein used, from sausage to shrimp to crabs to chicken and beyond. There can be okra and file. The roux can be light or dark. There are unusual ingredients. One of the most popular Jazz Fest dishes is the Pheasant, Quail and Andouille Gumbo. Leroy Jones drops potato salad into his. John Autin throws in hard-boiled eggs (his recipe). Big Chief Monk Boudreaux adds chicken gizzards. Sean Yseult and Chris Lee even use reindeer (recipe here)!
But not many people had seen a gumbo like the one in a photo actress Reagan Gomez posted on Twitter Christmas Eve. The jokes started flying, from disbelief to disgust and everywhere in between. Here are some of the best tweets about what became known as #ThatGumbo.