McNulty Investigates Ponce

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Our eyes were on Toby Rodriguez as he walked in long strides through the grass between the cars and the cooking station he’d set up on his porch. He was carrying the object of our culinary curiosity, tucked in this arm the way a running back cradles the ball.

It was roughly the shape of a football too, if a little smaller, but this was no pigskin. In fact, it was a pig stomach, stuffed with sausage and smoked. It was ponce, and we’d just spent a sunny spring day tracking it across its native habitat, the butcher shops of the Cajun prairie.

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