I’m Cajun, and I omit celery from the mirepoix. I don’t care for it, so I make up the difference with more onions and peppers, plus minced garlic. As with pizza toppings, there is no One True Way.
Heathens and blasphemers - the lot of you.
Not for adding the garlic, can’t leave the Pope out.
Of course in New Orleans, one rolls with the tradition. Actually cooked celery does have its place in that cuisine. When in Rome, as the saying goes…
You’re asking this on a board where the consensus is you’re beneath contempt if you like catsup on your pig snouts and anus sausages (aka hot dogs). And let’s not mention milk in a wine bar.
There are people in Louisiana who wait for me to visit home to make gumbo for them (and Louisianians resident in Texas who invite me over specifically to help them make it). I think my kitchen-soul is safe. 
Frankly, I’m more revolted by your spelling of “ketchup.” 
(And I’m betting a clear majority of posters here put it on their dogs.)
I always wanted to have a restaurant that, on the counter, had bottles of catsup and ketchup.
Didn’t one of the major brands used to spell it catsup? I seem to remember maybe Hunt’s?
Del Monte, IIRC.
Or these people:
Would you like some catsup on your catfish?
I’m sure it’s awesome. And just think how much better it would be if it had just a little celery in it!
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly not a purist who demands equal portions of the Trinity - the Good Lord in His Mercy does allow for some portion adjustment to account for individual taste, but to just not have ANY in there? It’d be like crossing yourself and saying “In the name of the Father and of the Son and…well nobody else really - that’s it.”.
Problem for me here is that I hate both bell pepper and celery.
A grain of salt!?!? Are you trying to poison me? Italian cuisine arguments should only be made with 3 ingredients!
Gumbo is one of those things where everyone has their own recipe, and none are incorrect. They tend toward the “make do with what’s available” side of cuisine in my experience. Kind of like Mexican houses and ways to make beans- I’ve had it with bacon, sausages, hot dogs, ham, etc… added in for flavor. They were all good. Same with the gumbos I’ve had- some were file, some were okra, some were sausage and chicken, others were seafood, and others were a mixture. And some folks add more… “exotic” meat to their gumbo- stuff like nutria and alligator for example.
Well, the Lenten season is approaching (indeed, Mardi Gras falls on 13-Feb this year) and I suspect nutria might be allowed by the RCC. Beaver is, fairly sure, but I have not really thoroughly investigated the matter this year.
I’m kind of shocked no one has “cited” this old page by “<insertFakeName>” from the now defunct Mel Magazine. It’s likely true, at any rate.
Being partially aquatic, they might qualify as fish for Lent, at least that’s how it would have worked in the Medieval period.
Fish and all cold-blooded animals are allowed.
ETA: Though this says beavers, capybara, and other aquatic mammals are okay, too..
Yeah, beaver’s an old favorite, from Canada days…
I think I’ll let someone else try to capture and eat a capybara, though. And probably platypus is…the meat would not be good, I suspect.
Actually, I’ll be having none of that! Yes, not very adventurous, but…still…ehh. Not so much. Of course, my days as an eighteenth-century trapper/trader are well behind me, so I have the luxury of choice.
“Amusing” anecdote du jour: a cat I work with, from Hawaii, keeps repeating his faux indignation about some time a few weeks ago when one of the big bosses ordered up a pizza run during a kind of hectic time.
For some reason one of the pies was the regular “Hawaiian” (you know, pineapple and Canadian bacon…which was good…I think I had two slices of that, plus some of the others, since no one else was digging into it).
Yes, he’s joking around still but he’s getting a lot of guffaws about “cultural appropriation” and so forth. No, he’s not serious, he just thinks it’s a revolting combination. As apparently many people do.
I still say to him, even just today, “You know, Vince, they ordered that specially for you!”
Meh, it’s fine. Probably has vitamin C in the pineapple or something. Health food.
I will celebrate with a whole roast Komodo Dragon this year!
Now, just to find a butcher who supplies them. And a decent recipe.
Well, wow. I did find one. Komodo tail. (Facebook link)
I’ve eaten crocodile tail - I even ordered it recently as carpaccio, mostly so my kids could get bragging rights at school.
I dont really like it, and neither did they. But who gets to run into school (junior school obviously) and shout out “I ate a crocodile!”. Stuff of legends for a 6 year old.