Louisiana Creole cuisine sauce or soup thicker." The fat and flour are cooked together on the stovetop until the mixture reaches a certain level of brownness, or darkness. Creole roux in New Orleans are known to be lighter than Cajun roux and are usually made with butter or bacon fat and flour. But certain Creole dishes use a dark roux. Dark roux are usually made with oil or bacon fat and flour. The scent of a good roux is so strong that it stays in clothes until they are washed. The scent is so widely recognized in Louisiana that others can tell if
Flour bomb containers of other liquid, making the removal of the resultant mixture difficult. Flour bomb Flour bomb is a fragile container (e.g. a paper bag) filled with flour for the purpose to be thrown at a person or object to cause an inconvenient messy stain. Flour bombs are a classic protest method, along with the throwing of eggs and overripe tomatoes. An example from May 2004 was the use of purple-dyed flour in condoms thrown at the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, in the chamber of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Fathers 4 Justice.