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pork, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, strawberries, chicken-fried steak, pecan pie and black-eyed peas.
Louisiana has an official state crustacean in the form of the crawfish and even has an official state garden week beginning with the first Sunday in June.
These designations are not totally harmless, although they may appear so on face value.
Laws are made in incremental fashion and the bigger and more important the law the more likely it is finally decided towards the tail end of a legislative session when time is at a premium and deals are cut. Weighty matters such as Medicaid funding, school appropriations, highway funding, taxation, public safety and long range public planning wait in the wings of every legislative session and too often in the rush of legislation at the end of a session mistakes are made. Legislators need not be bothered with state vegetables and soils but rather should tend to the matters of governing as their constituents expect.
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