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Right, I assume that when most folks think "creole" they have one particular thing in mind (and probably often food from NO.

I think there are multiple definitions and types of creole. Merriam Webster says:

1
: a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America
2
: a white person descended from early French or Spanish settlers of the U.S. Gulf states and preserving their speech and culture
3
: a person of mixed French or Spanish and Black descent speaking a dialect of French or Spanish

While Wikipedia has an article just on the Louisiana variety (which is also what I would normally think of at the mention of "creole").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_people

I do like Caribbean food. I'd be game to try Haitian, but if I'd had my heart set on cajun/NO style food, I'd also be disappointed.