re: Stopped by Dons in Scott

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Boudin might be sold cold, or frozen, but it's damn sure not raw. To make boudin, you cook pork meat, liver, seasonings together, and mix with cooked rice. Before the casing is stuffed, 100% of the contents are cooked & can be eaten.

After stuffing, it is steamed, boiled, or poached (as is the maker's preference). Sometimes it is smoked. This serves to cook the natural casing or soften a collagen casing.

After those steps, the boudin can be chilled or frozen.

But it is NOT raw, in any sense of the word. It needs reheating to a food safe temp.

I have never read about or encountered an uncooked mixture stuffed into a casing that is called boudin in south Louisiana. I'm not saying some oddball variant doesn't exist, I'm saying that the generally accepted definition of boudin in its south Louisiana homeland is as a cooked sausage.

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How cooked do you think the casing is?

Buy it all the time to freeze and bring back to Florida.

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I wonder with the Tboys stuff if it is just the casing that is not cooked. It would make no sense to stuff uncooked pork in a casing with cooked rice.

That said it amazes how many people on this site from Louisiana don't know boudin is a cooked product. This topic come up here fairly often.

Billys would've been a much better decision at that exit.