re: Best Smoked Sausage to Go with Red Beans & Rice? (Update on Pg. 5)

Wayne Jacobs Smokehouse

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) Teets in Ville Platte, LA
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Wayne Jacobs Smokehouse

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Had a conversation with the owner. He said the only difference between the andouille and the smoked sausage is the size of the casing. Surprising to me, because to me, they taste different.

On another topic, if you order RB & R at a NOLA lunch place, you'll usually get a link that hasn't been pierced and was steamed, not cooked in the beans. When you cut into it, you need a bib so you don't get sprayed. Anybody know what kind of sausage that is?

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I like Double D.

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Me too.

I will post my recommendations once I get home this evening.
I've 90% of the sausages mentiond in this thread, and then some.....

Hey what can I say, I drive a delivery truck that covers all of S.La, so if I see a specialty meat store, I'm gonna stop!



Plus all our family is in NELA, so they're always wanting us to bring them fresh smoked sausage and boudin (&boudin balls)

Just used Veron's in my jambalaya cookoff, and was very pleased. That said there are many awesome store specials like Benoits and Bergerons (in BR area) that are outstanding. The Acadiana offerings are almost too numerous to list (although you've done a great job)

Mostly the OP is a compilation of what other posters have recommended. I suppose there are good foods almost everywhere but Cajuns are spoiled silly. You have so much to choose from right in your backyard.

Teets is the best ... anything out of Ville Platte beats anything out of anywhere else. Hands down. My kids call it "Ville Platte sausage" and won't each much else when it comes to sausage.

Smoked meat festival is held there == my parents were super involved with the cooking contest for years.

And fwiw, it's expensive BUT Teets does ship. Well worth it if you're not in driving distance. I know it's time to "go home" for a visit when we're out of sausage. I buy a couple of 5# boxes at a time and freeze it.