re: La. Natives in other states ... what items do you bring back with you after a visit home?

My daughter brings smoked sausage or andouille, boudin, and oak Grove jambalaya mix back with her or requests those things when someone goes to her.

I bring back lots and lots of hard liquor. My neighbors give me their orders and like a bootlegger I haul that stuff back when I run over there on business. Man they really stick it to you here in Alabama on the price you pay to drink liquor. It’s significantly cheaper in Louisiana. Since I live across the bay from Mobile I can get close to pretty much everything I need that I can over in my home state.

Now when I lived in Colorado Springs and Little Rock the list is too long to even type. Especially out in Colorado. Buddy gumbo and jambalaya just doesn’t taste tip top when Hillshire Farms is your only sausage option. In Colorado I knew the UPS man, Fed X guy, and the postman by first name because I was always on the internet ordering stuff from Louisiana and shipping it out there. You don’t know how good you have it on so many things you take for granted until you leave the state of Louisiana. Hell I moved back South from Colorado when I realized my poor son would have to go to school with so many ugly girls. Again you don’t know what you take for granted when you leave Louisiana or the South for that matter. Heaven forbid a Colorado kid say yes sir or no ma’am but I digress.

Many years ago my grandma would bring home Blue Plate and Blue Bell in an ice chest all the way to Orlando

X82ndTiger ...

That list I posted is just about the only things I haven't found here in Atlanta without trying to get it online and being pickpocketed.

A lot of brands are available in groceries or Walmarts out here ... Blue Plate, Blue Runners, Camelia Beans, Zapp's, Crystal, Tabasco, Zatarain's, Louisiana Fish Fry, Slap Ya Mama, Community, etc. There are even a few decent smoked sausages, so the only sausage I bother bringing in is LaPlace andouille.

You can get any kind of seafood you're looking for at the international markets except for fresh Louisiana oysters. I've gotten live crawfish and blue crabs cheaper than what they were selling in Louisiana.

Evangeline Maid bread. Nothing else compared.

Boudin and smoked sausage.

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Why is sausage so horrible outside of louisiana...

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I wouldn’t say it’s horrible. Several of the Czech meat markets in the West of Houston region have sausage that is great for the pit. But it has some sort of seasoning that I’m not a fan of it doing a gumbo or jambalaya.

Johnnys Pizza

I'm surprised no one has said STDs from Tigerland.

Not cheap but goldbelly will satisfy some of your LA cravings. Its all in what you are willing to pay.

I'm familiar with Goldbelly ... my Wife keeps ordering Gambino's Petit Fors from there behind my back.