Rouse's Sausage Quality Control

Nothing against rouses but I'm not buying their in house sausage unless I don't have a choice

We used to get the green onion and the Cajun sausage all the time. We never had any of those issues, but this was several years ago.

The prepackaged stuff is terrible. The boudin is even worse, almost all rice. If you're getting sausage from Rouses, go for the fresh/raw sausage. The green onion sausage is best followed by the Italian. Usually between $3-4/lb so it's a decent price too.

I use to buy their hot, Italian and green onion sausage but a couple years ago I found them to be getting kind of inconsistent, especially the hot sausage. It was so bland with no heat at all and the flavor was all wrong.

So, I decided to start making my own and haven't looked back since. Matter of fact, I was out of Italian sausage when I wanted to make a big tray of lasagna and ran over to Rouses on Carrollton Ave. to pick up a pack with 8 links. I cut the casing and cooked a small bit of one link to test it for taste and it really didn't taste much like Italian, so I doctored the rest of it with some seasonings to bring it up to speed.

Now I'm just waiting for pork butts to go back on sale and I'll make me a big batch of Italian since I never case that type up and use it when making red gravies most of the time.

I think it completely depends on location. I’ve heard of some Rouses where they just bought out another store and they’re not great at all. But the newer ones built from the ground up are much better.

I’ve gotten their Cajun, green, and hot and was never disappointed in any of them.