I know what you mean by lagniappe but I bet many won't know.

"Despite its Italian look, lagniappe is actually a modified form of a Louisiana French creole term that derives from the New-World Spanish la ñapa, a gift, which in turn has its origin in a Quechua word yapa for a gift or tip."

I always looked forward to the lagniappe I would get when my dad paid off his bills. Being a farmer they ran a tab at many stores till harvest time when they sold the crops. It was the norm. I made sure to go with him on those trips. Sometimes it was a pair of shoes or a purse or a new dress ? etc. Sometimes it was a toy. There was always a lagniappe, a little something special.

I've had similar experiences when buying on eBay that a seller will include some little something extra. Twice the item has been something sort of gross because it was stained or dirty. In those cases, the lagniappe went straight into the sak fatra.

When I use to do seed trades on the Gardenweb, I liked it when the person who I was doing the trade with threw in some extra packs of seeds. I started doing the same. I never heard that word before.

I loved Raven's interesting explanation of its origins which I did not know. Truly, we are more than our sum, I gain so much from all of you.

Thanks Raven for explaining what Lucille meant. I never heard that word before.

My favorite was when I bought a set of pink frying pans off of ebay. The seller included 2 pink paring knives for free. I was tha-RILLED! I use them all the time and see those same pink paring knives on sale for 20 dollars or more!

I have never heard of that word before! Always just referred to them as freebies - which I do love when they are included, which doesn't seem too often any more.

We gave a friend one of our puppies once and we named her Lagniappe, aka Lainie.

And "sak fatra"? What a cool word!

Well, I don't know if this counts as a lagniappe or not, but hubby once opened an eBay order and a cockroach crawled out of the box.

I also hadn't heard this word before today.

I've only seen that word on the menu of a Cajun restaurant. But it wasn't referring to anything free.

Oh but I do love their hushpuppies!!

Darn it! The Like button isn't working, but I loved the responses here, so consider all of your posts "Liked."

sak fatra I didn't know, but I recently read a book -- the lost girls? -- where the family's cottage was in Lagniappe...I had to look it up to figure out how to pronounce it.

I use polarized filter media (furnace filters) and my last order of a three pack was shorted by one. I sent feedback to seller and two days later received a complimentary pack of 3, a $70 value. Now I can thank them for the lagniappe.

As for the menu above, I'll take the Cat-touffee, please.

Before I (just now) saw Raven's good explanation, I had to look up this word and was surprised I'd never seen it. What a lovely word and meaning.

I just received my follow-up lagniappe, a fairly expensive set of pedals (both left and right) and a couple of nice aluminum bottle cages. I'm all lagniapped up!

In Louisiana around the Lake Charles area they have a big celebration similar to Mardi Gras called Lagniappe Days. So much fun! And so much good food! Lots of great live music and lots of dancing in the streets! I haven't been able to go for a long time now but we used to make a trip down just for Lagniappe days.

My dad taught me this word years ago, when I was a kid. I don’t know where he learned it, he was definitely a midwestern guy, but he read a lot so must have encountered it somewhere. I always thought it a great word but I’ve never heard anyone use it until you did! Thank you!

I‘m glad you the right pedals now, or should I say the left and right pedals, and water bottle cages? you got a lagniappe with your lagniappe!

The first time I ran across Lagniappe I had to look it up. Thanks, raven, for the origins of the word. There was a restaurant with that name in Gulf Shores years ago. Don’t know if it is still there but there food was wonderful.

I’ve never heard the term sak fatra, so off to look up that one.

I had to look up Boudin balls on the above menu, that was new to me. The ingredients look great other than the chicken liver...I'm not a chicken liver fan ;0)

I've received lagniappes when making purchases, only occasionally things I could actually use. One that comes to mind that was appreciated....A heavy cordura carry bag containing two hefty folding chairs. Years ago, and we do still use them when going someplace extra seating might be needed. Like community college soccer games ;0) I had to buy a SUV to get them - they came out of the blue from Ford a few weeks after my purchase, unannounced.