Roasted May 9, 202688 views88 pts
We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Lafayette spent so long pretending to be French that the city was originally called Vermilionville and had to be renamed after an actual French guy in 1884. Then y'all took his name and mangled it into "LAF-ee-ET" like you're naming a cartoon character. Even your fake French is broken.
Lafayette brags about having some of the most restaurants per capita in the entire country, which is like being the world's best at eating while everyone else in the nation is still reading the menu. When your biggest achievement is being a glorified buffet line with a zip code, maybe set the bar higher than "we can fit another boudin joint next to the last boudin joint."
Your football team's biggest accomplishment was going 13-1 in 2021, which means the one thing y'all peaked at was being almost perfect and still not good enough to matter outside the Sun Belt. Nothing says "championship pedigree" like winning a conference nobody can name without Googling it.
Forbes called Lafayette the "Happiest City in America" back in 2014, which explains why everyone's so chill about being aggressively corrected for saying "crayfish." Your entire cultural identity hinges on crustacean pronunciation and drive-through daiquiris.
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