Talk:Avery Island (Louisiana)

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According to the tabasco sauce article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce ), the local salt is not used to make the tabasco sauce, yet according to this article, it is.

so, which is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.40.126 (talk) 16:10, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Avery Island salt is indeed used in Tabasco production, and is now sold over-the-counter to consumers for ordinary kitchen use under the brand name Avery Island Kosher Salt. I will add this information on the Tabasco sauce page in Wikipedia.  Thanks, --Skb8721 (talk) 21:21, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Some sections of this article seem to be taken verbatim from the Tobasco website. It should be rewritten or fixed somehow. 74.74.211.36 (talk) 20:10, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

How about including a map? Muad (talk) 19:36, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

According to A Dash Of Tabasco, an article published in The New Yorker on June 13, 1953, "The original salt spring was discovered in 1790, by a young man named John Hayes." Why no mention of any of the families that occupied the island before the Avery and Marsh families?Pelagie (talk) 23:26, 26 January 2009 (UTC)Pelagie

Island?
Why do the call Avery Island an Island? It doesn't appear to be surrounded by water in google maps - it only has water around about 50% of the circumference of the dome, and those look man made. Is it sometimes surrounded by water or something? 216.116.87.110 (talk) 18:22, 17 October 2012 (UTC)


 * It is surrounded by bayous and swamps. As those are full of trees and vegetation, it may not be apparent that that's what you're looking at in Google Maps.  Avery Island rises above those surroundings and the land is not marshy, so the idea of it being an island fits.  If you did not understand that from the article (see the Geography section), then perhaps the article could be improved on that point.  --Kbh3rd talk  05:22, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Even more so than bayous and swamps, Avery Island is bordered by coastal salt marsh. In satellite photos this marsh merely looks like open prairie, but in fact it is a wetlands feature.  So the "island" is surrounded on all sides by wetlands, either slow-moving muddy bayous (more than one -- Petite Anse Bayou is the major one, but there is also Stumpy Bayou, Bayou Leleux (spelling?), Saline Bayou, and remnants of another bayou, now silted up.  These may appear to be one large bayou on a satellite photo, but they are actually distinct waterways that flow together and empty into Vermilion Bay per the largest of these bayou, the Petite Anse.


 * Also, there is a tradition in Cajun French culture of calling any notable landmark on an otherwise flat expanse of land an "ile" or "island" -- thus a clump of trees on a prairie may be called "ile copal" after the type of trees or "ile Breaux" if a man named Breaux owned the clump of trees. I'm making up these examples, but there are many such examples of this use of "ile" in south Louisiana.--Skb8721 (talk) 15:40, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Petite Anse
While Petite Anse may well be a Cajun French phrase, it is perfectly gammatical French, as spoken in Metropolitan France, l'Hexagone, where it means exactly the same thing, "Little Cove." I live in département des Alpes-Maritimes for part of the year. Not only that, I happen to live overlooking Anse de la Salis. Dick Kimball (talk) 01:08, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Google news
National Public Radio has this transcript, but I can't find a headline http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NR&d_origin=transcripts&z=NR&p_theme=nr&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F58953038C6D272&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

National Public Radio: Headline is unavailable. Click here...‎ $3.95 - National Public Radio - Aug 28, 1992

"Avery Island is basically a company town. It has its own elementary school and post office, its own water and sewage systems, its own bulldozers, backhoes," WhisperToMe (talk) 18:08, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

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Salt dome source of Tabasco sauce?
About the opening sentence:

"Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce."

Unless I am missing something, which I do not believe I am, this sentence as written is just plain silly. It seems to be saying that the salt dome itself is the source of Tabasco sauce.

By all indications, that is not the case, and not what was meant. The apparent intent was merely that the *island* is the source of the sauce. Which we understand to mean that the sauce is *produced* on the island. But that is not at all clear from the current wording.

A fix for this problem would be to move the information about the island's Louisiana location up from the second sentence into the first sentence. If done correctly, that fix would make it clear that the island, not the salt dome, is the source of Tabasco sauce. Toddcs (talk) 14:06, 4 January 2024 (UTC)


 * It’s already clear to anyone who thinks for 2 seconds 204.237.89.140 (talk) 23:38, 21 January 2024 (UTC)