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Here some of dey t'ings, doll, dey ain't got on dat men-you: Jumbalay', Crawfish Etouffe, Boudin, Red Beans and Rice, Pee-cohn Pie (wid plenny o'shoo-gar!), Shrimp Po' Boys, Dixie Beer, Catfish, Dirty Rice, Snappy-Gator Tail with Jolie Blon Beer, Potato Pirogue, Tasso, Pralines, and ol' Zydeco records. You know dee ones - Clifton Chenier. Zachary Richard. Rockin' Dopsie. All dem people...
...some t'ings dey shouldna got but we like dem quand-meme: like Corona beer ($2.50) . . . Ooo-wee! You squeeze dat lime and glug-glug-glug! You ain't tasted nothin' better! Rien!. . . and Hurricanes ($2.95). . . Cay-john as Chop Suey, but dey just like dem ones at Pat O'Brien's in dey Vieux Carre, and you drink two o'those, you say, "Doucement!," start feelin' like a nutria gettin' whomped on dey head! And I tell you what - C'est vrai, babe! - Dey teach dat Scorpion Bowl how to sting! Put one o' dem in your shoe...
...johns reading dis story, shakin' yo' head, sayin', "C'est qui, cet imposteur?") So I go to dis Border Cafe, take a coupla friends, and I wait in line, you know, ha'f hour or so, and lemme tell you what I eat, and how it taste, and all dat...
...cost of both the DAT cassettes and the machines needed to play them is high enough so that the new technology will probably appeal, at least initially, chiefly to real audiophiles. Similar in appearance to ordinary analog cassettes but about two-thirds the size, DATs are expected to cost about $12. At first, digital tape machines will set buyers back anywhere from $1,000 to $1,500, vs. $200 to $600 for CD players...
What really alarms the music industry about the digital tape is its quality. Free of tape hiss and static crackling common to ordinary tape and record players, the DAT's sound is so fine that it is bound to encourage home taping of prerecorded music. To prevent unauthorized duplication, record companies and industry organizations have joined ranks to demand that manufacturers of digital players equip them with special computer chips that block the copying of prerecorded music. The Reagan Administration is expected this week to introduce legislation to require such protection...