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Traveling with Boudin

Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:39 pm
Posted by Minnesota Tiger
Member since Oct 2005
4414 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:39 pm
I am traveling to BR next month and want to bring a few pounds of Boudin back with me. Thinking Jerry Lee's for ease/convenience.

Suggestions how to pack it in my luggage or a carry on? I have a 6 pm flight out of MSY and will get home to a fridge in MN around midnight. Can you travel with food?

Posted by Artie Rome
Hwy 1
Member since Jul 2014
8757 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:43 pm to
So just going to BR from MSY? If you can't make it past BR go to Ronnie's. You can get it fresh or frozen. Get some regular and some smoked and get some cracklins for the 15 minute drive from there to the airport. Closed on Sundays though.

quote:

Can you travel with food?


I'm not a TSA agent.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
46267 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:49 pm to
You are going to need to check it to keep it cold. They won't let you carry on an ice chest with ice or gel packs.
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
39817 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:52 pm to
Buy a small soft side ice chest. Fill with boudin and gel packs and check it
Posted by haricot rouge
Baton Rouge, La
Member since Sep 2006
893 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:55 pm to
I've brought smoked sausage and boudin aboard in my carry-on backpack. They were frozen in vacuum sealed packs. I wrapped in newspaper and placed in a soft sided cooler bag.

Watched it go through the TSA x-ray machine at MSY. The operators didn't question or look at it. Was still frozen when I landed in Reno, Nevada.
Posted by Hold my beer
Member since Mar 2015
187 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 12:59 pm to
My dad flies with boudin from Jerry Lee's (5 lbs. or so) from NO to Chicago every time he visits. He buys it frozen.

He just wraps it in a few paper towels, then aluminum foil, and ziplocs it up and puts in in the middle of his clothes...he's done this at least 10-15 times and its almost always still frozen.

Never had any issues at the airport
Posted by Mung
Ba’on Rooj
Member since Aug 2007
9132 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 1:21 pm to
i have a soft sided ice chest, about playmate size, that i pack with boudin and sausage from Kartchner's or Juneau's. They will pack 3 links in sealed plastic, and i will freeze them or just put an ice pack in with them. I bring them to NorCal all the time in my checked bag, which is 7-8 hours of flight, then 1-3 hour drive, depending on traffic. They stay completely frozen, or cold, if not frozen.
Posted by gmrkr5
NC
Member since Jul 2009
15093 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 1:33 pm to
quote:

I am traveling to BR next month and want to bring a few pounds of Boudin back with me. Thinking Jerry Lee's for ease/convenience.

Suggestions how to pack it in my luggage or a carry on? I have a 6 pm flight out of MSY and will get home to a fridge in MN around midnight. Can you travel with food?


cheap softside icechest and some gel packs. Jerry Lees will vacuum seal it for you too.
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40154 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 1:46 pm to
I did this back in March - carried 5 lbs of boudin with me ato North Carolina to give as a gift.

Bought a couple of days ahead of time, purchased frozen, kept in freezer. Right before I drove to airport, put into a small soft-sided ice chest - basically the size of a large lunch bag - along with two frozen gel packs.

When I got to airport, took gel packs out and left in my car. Had it seperate from my carryon, went through security and told the TSA guy what it was. He took aside, looked through it, sent me on my way. Past security, opened up my carryon bag and put it inside there.

Flew to RDU. Saw the guy at dinner that night, gave him the whole soft sided ice chest. He took it home and told me the next morning that when he got home at 11 pm it will still very frozen.
Posted by Esquire
Chiraq
Member since Apr 2014
14358 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 2:33 pm to
Carry on. Just wrap it aluminum foil first and put a timer on it so you know how long it's been out of the freezer.
Posted by Degas
2187645493 posts
Member since Jul 2010
11935 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 4:13 pm to
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Minnesota Tiger
Let's swap. I'll send you home with plenty of boudin in trade for a box of smoked Ciscos from Russ Kendall's Smoke House in Knife River. Toss in some IPA from Bauhaus Brew Lab and you've got yourself a sack of cracklins. Heck, bring me a charcuterie plate to go from Butcher and Boar while you're at it.
Posted by Degas
2187645493 posts
Member since Jul 2010
11935 posts
Posted on 10/7/15 at 4:18 pm to
quote:

I've brought smoked sausage and boudin aboard in my carry-on backpack. Watched it go through the TSA x-ray machine at MSY. The operators didn't question or look at it
They probably thought you were a freak with all those sex toys and were afraid to approach you.
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