FREE Lagniappe Bag
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Following the wonderful New Orleans tradition of giving a little something extra to customers at the point of sale, I have decided to offer customers the option to order a FREE Lagniappe Bag. Sometimes I have an overabundance of certain herbs, products, or samples that I prefer do not stay on the shelf for too long. I take great pride in having the freshest products available for sale and though these items will never hit the landfills, I believe they would be appreciated by my customers. By selecting the FREE Lagniappe bag, I will send you a mystery lagniappe bag at no charge. It might be a bag of Spanish moss and spider webs or it could be dirt from a police station and a conjure oil. Maybe it's a doll and mistletoe. Maybe it's a conjure tip on a postcard and some bath salts. Who knows what you might end up with! Hopefully, whatever I have on hand at the time of your purchase you can put to good use. Nothing fancy, your FREE Lagniappe Bag will come to you in a cellophane bag or wrapped the old-fashioned way in brown paper along with the print out pictured to the left describing the Lagniappe tradition. Just my way of saying "thank you" for purchasing from Creole Moon Publications and Spiritual Supplies.
*CAVEAT* PURCHASE REQUIRED OF OTHER ITEMS TO GET THE FREE LAGNIAPPE BAG. LIMIT OF ONE FREE LAGNIAPPE BAG PER ORDER.
*CAVEAT* PURCHASE REQUIRED OF OTHER ITEMS TO GET THE FREE LAGNIAPPE BAG. LIMIT OF ONE FREE LAGNIAPPE BAG PER ORDER.
What is Lagniappe?
Lagniappe was always given customers in the stores during the Creole era, giving special pleasure to children and servants. No matter how small the purchase, the merchant always added a bit of candy, a cake or some other small item as lagniappe, meaning something extra, something for nothing. Webster claims that lagniappe is derived from a Spanish word, but there is no country where Spanish is spoken that uses such a term. M. Bussiere Rouen, a noted French scholar, advanced the theory that four or five centuries ago, in Normandy and in Brittany, grain like oats, wheat and barley, when sold, was spread on a woven cloth known in French as a nappe. When the seller delivered or emptied the contents of the cloth into the buyer's receptacle, there were always quite a few grains clinging to the cloth. To compensate the buyer, the seller would take one or two handfuls from his stock and give it to the buyer, saying this was for la nappe (the cloth). When the Bretons and Normans settled in Canada and then were driven out by the English, eventually to find homes in Louisiana and become known as Acadians, they kept the custom of giving a little something for nothing when purchases were made, saying, 'Pour la gnaippi’ instead of 'Pour la nappe,' and from them the curious custom was passed on to the Creoles of New Orleans (Saxon & Tallant, 1945). Please accept your free gift as “lagniappe”in the spirit of the Old New Orleans cultural tradition.
Keywords: lagniappe, creole, louisiana, tradition, creole moon
Keywords: lagniappe, creole, louisiana, tradition, creole moon