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Cajun Boudin
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Boudin is such serious business in Cajun Louisiana that the Lafayette tourism office publishes an official Cajun Boudin Trail mapping the shops that sell it.
Pork, rice, liver, and Cajun spices are stuffed into a natural casing and gently smoked or steamed, then kept warm in steam cases at gas stations and meat markets. Customers buy it by the link and often eat it in the parking lot, squeezing the filling out and leaving the casing behind.
Why it's made this way: Cajun communities in southwest Louisiana adapted French boudin, adding rice to stretch the meat, and turned gas stations across Acadiana into unlikely boudin destinations.
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